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Azerbaijan: Musical Talent on YouTube

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Arts & Culture, Citizen Media, Music, Technology, Youth

Gultekin Garadaghly continues to post her own renditions of well-known songs on YouTube [1], including those from this year's Eurovision Song Contest held in her native Azerbaijan. The young singer living in Baku, who also covers Azerbaijani folk songs [2], has even been featured in the local press with 1news.az [RU] reporting [3] that at the end of May her YouTube channel had received over 322,000 views. A month later at time of writing, that has now increased to over 467,000.