Max Korzh concert in Bucharest. “Bucharest, Bucharest” and “Ukraine, Ukraine” were shouted at the National Arena
More than 42,000 people attend a concert by Belarusian rapper Max Korzh on Saturday night at the National Arena. The vast majority of spectators are foreigners, from countries such as Belarus, Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova, Poland or even Russia, and most of them are young. In the biggest stadium in Romania, the young people shouted following the artist's instructions: “Bucuresti, Bucharest”.
Max Korzh, an artist from Belarus, almost unknown in Romania, achieved the performance of selling all the tickets at the National Arena and set a record for a solo artist in a stadium in Bucharest.
“Out of the total of over 42,000 tickets sold, almost 39,000 are from other countries, such as Ukraine, Poland, the Republic of Moldova. It is the largest number of foreign tourists brought to an event in Romania”, say those from Emagic, the organizers of the concert.
Audience chants during the Max Korzh concert at the National Arena
Being at the National Arena, the journalist Vitalie Cojocari published moments from the concert on his Facebook account.
In the stands of the stadium, the journalist writes, a large banner was hung that read “Dvizh București – Ce zi mişto!”. Dvizh or Dvij is a kind of party of fans of the Belarusian rapper.
After taking the stage, the rapper urged the fans to chant, and the crowd followed him: “Bucharest, Bucharest!”. “Friends, after this I want to go to Transylvania. Are you going?” said Max Korzh, writes Vitalie Cojocari.
Another symbolic moment was when chanting “Ukraine! Ukraine!” began to be heard in the National Arena.
Who is Max Korzh?
Maksim Anatolyevich Korzh (aka Max Korzh) is 37 years old. In “political” times, he established himself as an artist not because he gave explicitly activist messages. His lyrics speak of escape, hopelessness, freedom and ordinary people crushed by a harsh system. Not only Belarusians recognized themselves in it, but also many young people from Eastern Europe.
Max Korzh was born in the city of Luninets in Belarus. He moved to Minsk at an early age, where he was sent by his parents to a music school. At 16, he was already playing in a band, and he recorded his first solo track while studying at the Belarusian State University.
In his third year of college, he decided to quit his studies and focus on his music career, borrowed $300 from his mother, went to a studio and recorded the song “Nebo Pomozhet Nam” (“Heaven will help us”), which he posted on VKontakte, Russia's largest social network, in 2012.
Shortly thereafter, he was drafted into the army. When he returned from military service, he found out that the song had gone viral and was very popular in Belarus. The song “Nebo Pomozhet Nam” (“Heaven Will Help Us”) attracted a large number of fans and began to be played on the radio.
In 2013, Korzh became the first Belarusian artist to perform a sold out concert in Minsk-Arena in front of 13,000 people.
From here, his popularity continued to grow, and his songs in Russian brought him fans from countries such as Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Germany, Kazakhstan, the Czech Republic, etc. In large part, his success is due to the fact that he addresses in his music very common themes for the new generations in Slavic countries who grew up in societies where freedom was or is problematic, where the future was always uncertain and full of anxieties.
How, then, did Max Korzh become a real symbol? You can read in the article below.
