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- All right Dimash, welcome
to Friday Live Stream first of all.
It is amazing to have you on this show.
- Thank you very much, thank you for having me.
- It's also an honor to point out that you have trusted us
and you've been kind enough to share with us,
it's your first ever English, all English I should say,
interview without a translator.
So in advance, I just wanted to thank you for that.
- I will to try to do my best.
- Absolutely.
Now, speaking of languages, you have sung songs
in 12 different languages, which is just really amazing.
How many languages do you speak?
- I speak Kazakh, Russian and little bit of English.
- You have actually song it sounds like,
or performed songs I should say,
in languages that you don't necessarily speak,
which is really remarkable.
- I don't speak Chinese, I don't speak Korean
but I want to try.
Specially for my fans.
- So your fans are called Dears
and they're some of the loudest fans
that we have now because of you,
how would you describe your fans?
- They want to introduce my music in USA, in Europe, in Asia
so, they have hard work.
- They do, it's a full-time job being Dear.
Where did that come from?
The fandom name of Dears?
- It happened almost four years ago.
After the premiere of episode, of first episode
of I'm singer.
I gained a lot of fans.
I needed to address them somehow.
So I called them Dears, because for me
they are dear as my family.
- I've read a remarkable stat,
I'm curious if it's true, that if you go all the way back
to the beginning, your first performance on stage
was at the age of two?
- I don't remember, so I cannot tell you how it happened.
But my parents are singers and when I was little
I toured with them.
- That's amazing, you were a natural.
There's a song of yours that broke some records.
Can you tell us about that?
- From when I was a child,
I always dreamed that one day I will hear Kazakh songs
on American music channel.
I'm very happy that (mumbles) my song
was first to break this record.
- What was your reaction when you heard
the Dears had gotten you onto this MTV show?
- Of course, I'm happy.
I want to say thank you for your team.
Thank you for you.
And thanks, a lot of thanks for all my fans.
- Course, you know touring a little crazy these days
be, cause of COVID and the pandemic.
But, do you have any future touring plans?
- I would love to continue my world tour now
and to add a few countries,
but the biggest news I have for my fans,
is that my online concert will be released
on 16th of January.
- That's awesome.
Dimash, I really wanted to ask you about project CURE.
Can you tell me a little bit about it and what your role is?
- I am very honored to be project CURE's global ambassador.
They have many important projects
including events hosted by Elvis Duran,
and the thanks to him many celebrities like Kesha,
Jason Derulo and Katy Perry have supported their cause.
- Yeah, that's awesome.
We couldn't have a Dimash interview
without some questions from the Dears.
And here are some of the best questions
we were able to gather.
There were a lot, so here are a few of them.
What music, genre, singer, all these newbies, et cetera,
does, do you listen to?
- I'm a (mumbles) I love different types of music.
When I rest I can listen to hard rock,
then some Baroque music or Roman Catholic choir
and then some rap from Eminem, and then some jazz
and then some Italian class~ics and then fall asleep.
- Nice.
All right, this comes from a Dimash Kneecap,
Omg ask about his to be released new video,
plans to finish the song Love's Not Over Yet?
Oh, and has he learnt to cook in lockeddown yet?
- Some time ago I released a music video
for Golden and a very soon there will be another video
for a song that I never performed for my (mumbles)
- And have you learned how to cook in lockdown yet?
- Of course no.
(man laughing)
- Me neither.
All right, let's get to this next one
from Dimash's Right Eyebrow.
What is your favorite song at the moment?
- All songs by Michael Jackson.
- That's awesome. - And Pavarotti.
Pavarotti, Pavarotti.
- He's like classical?
- Yes. - Yes, beautiful voice.
All right well Dimash, thank you so much
for hanging out with us here on the Friday Live Stream.
- Thank you brother.
Thank you.
- Yeah dude, it's all good man.