13 hours agoBBC: I Love Lipa Festival aims to change Kosovo image
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(2 years ago)There are almost summer festivals in the United Kingdom. This starts with “Big weekend” of Radio 1 in May, “Glastonbury” in June, “Late “Some may even say that music lovers in Britain are spoiled to make selections, writes the BBC, broadcastgraphy. I want Lipa [...]
This starts with “Big weekend” of Radio 1 in May, “Glastonbury” in June, “Late “
Some may even say that music lovers in Britain are spoiled to make choices, writes BBC, He broadcasts thegraphy.
But this does not happen worldwide, and there are many countries in which there are few or almost no such events.
Right in this middle, I want Lipa and her father, Dukaagjini, wanted to change things by starting the Sunny Hill festival in their town, Pristina (Kosovo).
I want to change the rhetoric of what people think about Kosovo and that it is destroyed by war”, explained I want at the beginning of this year.
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“When I was living in Kosovo, none of the artists I wanted to see ever came back”, the 28-year-old said.
I want to be born in the United Kingdom, but moved to Pristina as a child after a war in the late 1990s that left more than 10,000 dead, while Kosovo fought for independence from Serbia.
She declared it in 2008, though some countries including Serbia refuse to recognise it.
Dos's father on the other side said he had a dream of accomplishing something like Sonny Hill in Pristina, after working in the music event industry. Live Years before I want to become an international pop star.
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In 2018, 10 years after Kosovo declared independence, Sunny Hill started by I Love.
But then it was more difficult to convince other world artists to come to perform in Kosovo, and a year later, there was Mily Cyrus and Calvin Harris.
This changed the way the festival was seen by other artists and their management teams.
“We really outdo ourselves when it comes to other performers, people who can come”, Dukaagjin told the BBC.
Recent data estimates that about 40 percent of visitors were from outside Kosovo, noting that the diaspora has a powerful impact.
Some had travelled so far from Chicago to the United States to see artists like Bebe Rex, Burna Boy, Stormzy and DJ Snake leading the main scene of Sunny Hill.
Part of the festival was and: Groove Armada, Black Coffee and Griffin.
Kosovo is thought to have the youngest population in Europe, as more than half is estimated to be under the age of 30.
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