Dimash Kudaibergen BIOGRAPHY

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◆Name : Dimash Kanatuly Kudaibergen

◆Birthday: 24 May 1994

◆Birth place: Kazakhstan, Aktobe

◆Hight: 191 cm

◆Languages: Kazakh (mother tongue) / Russian (official language) / Kazakh, Russian, French, English, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Turkish, Ukraine, Serbian, Kyrgyz, Spanish, Uzbek*, Tatar*(singing)
*At family gatherings, according to his father Kanat.

◆Sports: swimming, taekwondo (in his youth)
To build up stamina for performing on stage for 2~3 hours, Dimash regularly works out. Also he often uses the swimming pool at a hotel during his stay. On youtube, we can find him playing basketball or doing football juggling.

◆Musical instruments performed on stage: piano, dombra, drum
※The music instruments he plays for fun on videos: marimba, guitar, violin, cello

◆Persons he respects or admires: his parents, grandparents, Marat Aitimov (his vocal teacher), Celine Dion, Michael Jackson, Jackie Chan

◆Favorite music: rap, heavy metal, metal rock, classical opera

◆Vocal range: C2~G♯7, D♯8
He has 4.5 octave voice range, including super bass called vocal fly and super treble at G♯7 and D♯8 called whistle voice.

Although known for his wide vocal range, Dimash does not emphasize on that and instead he believes that his voice is just a tool and the important thing for him is what he xpresses and what he communicates to his audience.

1.Dimash Kudaibergen

◆Real Name: Dinmukhanmmed Kanatuly Kudaibergen
(Kazakh: Дінмұхаммед Қанатұлы Құдайберген)
Born: 24 May 1994

◆Dimash Kudaibergen a.k.a “Dimash” was born on 24th May 1994 in Aktobe which is located in the west part of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The population in Aktobe is 370,000 and is the fifth
largest region of the country which population is 18,6 million (As of 2019).It was only two and half years before Dimash's birth, when the former Soviet Union collapsed and a newly independent nation of Kazakhstan was founded. (The historical background of Kazakhstan is a very important factor to understand Dimash and his music.)

◆Dimash’s parents met each other at Aktobe State Pedagogical Institute wheer they were both students, and got married. Then Dimash was born as their eldest son.

◆In Kazakhstan, the paternal grandparents traditionally raise little children, and also there is a custom that parents entrust the first child to them. Dimash’s parents were musicians, and when he
was 40 days old which is a big milestone in child-raising, his mother Svetlana was still in her first year at a music college and had to go back to the course.

◆Thus Dimash was mostly brought up by his grandparents. As is traditionally the case in Kazakhstan, he was living in a large family, and since his parents referred his grandparents as “papa" and "mama” he himself used to call them “papa” and “mama” and believed that they were his father and mother until he was 10 years old. At the same time, he believed that his father was his big brother and his mother was his big sister so he called them “Kanat Ata” and “Svetlana Apa” to show his respect to them as big brother and big sister. (This can often happen in a big family, right? )

●Father Kanat Kudaibergenuly Aitbayev
(Kazakh: Қанат Құдайбергенұлы Айтбаев)

●Mother Svetlana Aitbayeva
(Kazakh: Светлана Айтбаевa）

●Grandfather: Kudaibergen Aitbayev
（Kazakh: Құдайберген Айтбаев）

●Grandmother: Miua Nizamutdinova
（Kazakh: Миуа Низамутдинова）

●Younger sister: Raushan
(Kazakh: Раушан Born in2001）

●Younger brother: Abilmansur
(Kazakh: Әбілмансур Born:in2007)

2. Meaning of his name

◆Nickname: Dimash (the common nickname for Dinmukhammed)

◆Din means ‘religion’. Mukhammad is one of the most typical Muslim name. It means ‘praised’ or ‘honorable’. Since the name Mukhammad is known as the prophet, it is very popular in Kazakhstan.

◆Kudaibergen is Kudai (god’s) + Bergen (gift).

◆Kanat means ‘wing’ (“翼 tsubasa” in Japanese) and this is very common in Kazakhstan for boys.

◆Traditionally, Kazakhs didn't have surnames. However, under the soviet rule, it became a requirement, and Kazakh people started to use their fathers' names as their family names, adding 'ov' at the end.
Sometimes Dimash's surname is spelled in the Russified version "Kudiabergennov”, but nowadays ‘Kudaibergen’ is more commonly used.

◆Old days in Kazakhstan ,there was no surname concept but, it was required under the rule of former soviet government. Thus,as surname, they started to use their anchesters name as it is or adding ‘ov’ on the end.
Sometimes Dimash's surname is spelled in the Russified version "Kudiabergennov”, but nowadays ‘Kudaibergen’ is more commonly used.

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3. Thanks to grandparents

◆Dimash’s grandparents lived with a belief that they should respect the traditional Kazakh culture.
They spoke in the formal Kazakh language and valued family relations. When Svetlana (Dimash’s mother) was a music college student, they took care of her as if she were their real daughter so that she could be a successful singer. By taking care of little Dimash, they supported Kanat and Svetlana for their career.

◆Grandmother Miua was a school teacher in biology and geography, and she was also good at singing. She taught Dimash a lot of old Kazakh stories and epic poems.

◆Grandfather Kudaibergen’s first job was a driver in the rural area of Aktobe (Жұрын, Zhryn). His life motto was to be honest, modest and sincere. He devoted himself to playing Dombra (a traditional Kazakh music instrument) during his school days. He played dombra and Miua
accompanied him by singing, and little Dimash was listening to them. Accordingly, Dimash got familiar to this instrument.

◆It was his grandmother who discovered Dimash’s extraordinary music talent and his enthusiasm to music in the first place. He showed great keenness to music when he was child. He used to carry a radio cassette player everywhere he went (even in bed!) and was completely enchanted by music.
He used to tour with his parents for their stage performances since he was a baby, so on stage was something he was very familiar with, as well as something he always wanted to do. Actually, his stage debut was as early as 2 years old, as a child actor. He used to run near the stage when his parent’s local performance was over.

◆Miua devoted herself in supporting Dimash who had started to commute to Akhmet Zhubanov Music College. Since Dimash possessed an extraordinary singing talent and absolute pitch, Miua sacrificed herself by helping him to develop his talent, even when she felt sick and felt pain in her legs, she didn’t quit picking him up from school. Therefore, Dimash expresses great gratitude for the dedication of his grandparents.

◆Dimash was praised as “Return of Marat Aitimov” (the acclaimed Kazakh singer) at a recital performance when he was 5 years old. In the year 2000, when he was 6 years old, he won the grand prize at the national piano contest “Aynalayin”.

4. School education

◆Common Kazakhstan school education is formed by basic 11 years of primary and junior high school (9 years of them compulsory) the additional 2 years are professional education or 4 years of University. (In Kazakhstan, currently they are considering to extend the school years from 11 to 12 as compulsory education).

◆Dimash commuted to 32th school of Aktobe from the age of 6 and graduated musical class in 2009. His teachers who knew him from those days said that he studied hard, learned well and was cheerful, adaptable, good at presentation and keenly devoted for more creative music expressions.

◆Dimash liked to sing songs by Abai Kunanbayev the acclaimed Kazakh poet, and he performed original arrangement of songs of Abay at a school presentation (an event of ‘Kazakh language week’). He was praised for bringing the old-fashioned song to life.
Aside from elderly people, it is very proud and praiseworthy that young boy like Dimash is eager to work on such classical music.

◆From his childhood, Dimash grew up in an environment rich of music but regarding his voice, he possessed treble in his voice and took charge of female part and was singing until 16 years old at boys and girls choir.

◆In 2014, he graduated from K.Zhubanov Aktobe Regional State University music department majoring in classical voice music. He produced successful results at several international music competitions during his school days.

◆Later he moved to Astana to commute to Kazakhstan National Art University majoring in Contemporary music (Jazz, Pop) and graduated on 27th June 2018. Even now, he is studying composition at master’s degree in the same university.

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5. Fateful encounter with his teacher

◆During his school days at K. Zhubanov Aktobe Resional State University, Dimash met his teacher Marat Aitimov, an honorary artist of Kazakhstan, who he still respects ever since.
It is one of the most important lifetime events for him.

◆The predecessor of this university was the alma mater where his parents met. Teacher Marat was also a friend of his mother Sveta at the time. When he entered university, Dimash was already an experienced all-round musician, demonstrating his ability to sing and expand his vocal range while also exhibiting outstanding playing abilities such as dombra or piano.

◆By carefully coaching unstable vocal chords from puberty, Mr. Marat widened his vocal range, enriched it, and deepened his passion for ethnic and traditional culture and arts. He led him many successes in competitions and restrained him to always be modest.

◆After graduating from university, he started studying composition at the National University of the Arts (in Astana), he continued training with Master Marat. His grandparents had also moved from Aktobe, supporting Dimash and his parents' activities while studying in Astana.

◆At Kazakh State University of Arts, he trained pop vocals instructed by Maira Dauletbekovao.
She helped Dimash to win at the Slavic Bazaar contest and commented “Dimash had a strong character and strong will. Even in undesirable conditions like bad weather, outdoors, bad health, he gathered all of his spirits to win. I cried happily when I saw it”.

6. 2010-2014: Early career

◆2010: Grand prize at “Звонкие голоса Байконура” (Sonorous Voices of Baikonur) in Kazakhstan

◆2012: First prize at “Zhas Kanat” (Young Wing) in Kazakhstan

◆2012: Runner up at “Восточный Базар” (Oriental Bazaar) in Ukraine

◆2013: Grand prize at “Мейкин Азия"(Makin Asia / Open Asia) in Kyrgyzstan

◆2013: Participated as a guest singer together with Alisher Karimov at “Türkçevizyon Gala Night”(Turkish vision Gala Night) in Turkey

◆2012: Released the single “Көркемім” (Korkemim) of his own composition and lyrics written by his father Kanat Aitbayev.

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7. 2015-2016: Slavic Bazaar, International performance, “Unforgettable Day” tour7.

◆2015: Grand prize( Record :175 of 180 point) at “Slavic Bazaar” /Belarus

He performed
・“Blizzard Again” (RU: опять метель, by Russian singer Alla Pugacheva) on the 1st day
・“SOS d'un terrien en détresse” on the 2nd day
・”Daididau” at the gala

◆2015: Performed ‘Daididau’ as a representative of Kazakhstan at “ABU TV Song Festival” in Turkey

★He showed remarkable performance after receiving the Grand prize at Slavic Bazaar, and he was invited to many international stages from the year 2015 to 2016.

Those are:
Makin Asia 2015 (Guest performer) / Expo 2015 held in Milano, Italy / theatre show “Мəңгілік Ел” (Eternal Country) at the 550th Anniversary of the Kazakh Khanate / Eurasia International Movie Festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan / Turk World Cultural Arts and Capital Festival in Turkmenistan / Woman’s Day concert (performed with his parents) in Astana, Kazakhstan / International Woman’s Day in Kremlin Palace concert

★Beside stage performance, Dimash released a song “Unforgettable Day”

◆August 2015: Single ‘Unforgettable Day' was released.

◆December 2015: Recorded a new song “My swan” (Аққуым) as a duet with soprano singer Maira Mukhamedkyzy who highly praised him. Then performed many duets on TV and concerts.

◆ October 2016: Released EP “Dimash Kudaibergen” (mini album of 4 songs) titled by his name.

Announced music video “Аяз қырау”. This is Kazakh version of “Опять Метель” (Blizzard Again) which he sang at the Slavic Bazaar.

◆February 2016: Announced new song “Туғанжер” (My Homeland) at Commemorative concert by Lupkan Zholdasov who is a guitarist and close friend of everyone in his family. Later this song was introduced as the title of “Қазақстан” (Kazakhstan).

★In Kazakhstan, they have many songs by the same name “Туған жер” (My Homeland).

◆April 2016: Commenced on a concert tour to visit 25 places in Kazakhstan (+2 in Russia) to commemorate Kazakhstan’s 25th independence anniversary.
It was a big epic and this tour was entitled “Unforgettable Day Tour” by his song.

◆Dimash is now invited as a guest or a judge in the contests where he was once a participant.
This year, he performed a judge at Kostanay regional contest “Бала дауысы” (Bala Dausy / Child voice contest) in Kazakhstan.

◆July 2016: Performed ‘Belovezhskaya Pushcha’ duet with Nagima Eskalieva a Kazakh singer. The Bialowieza is a vast forestland located at the border between Belarus and Poland and it is a designated site of UNESCO World Heritage. In the 1970s, Alexandra Pakhmutova a Russian composer who visited to this place was deeply impressed and composed this song.

◆September 2016: Sang “Туғанжер” (My Homeland) together with Yasmin Ibrayeva, 11 years old girl. (participant from Bala Dausy) at the 1000th anniversary of Almaty Gala (planned by GAKKU). Despite the same name, this song is actually different from the song of Dimash which was composed by Lupkan Zholdasov.

◆November 2016: At the Turkic Culture Festival in Seoul, South Korea, he performed in front of the leaders of countries.

He sang a song ‘Notre Dame De Paris’ with Sundet Baigozhin a Kazakh singer at Big Opera 2016 TV competition as a guest singer. His performance drew a lot of attention.

◆Around this time, Dimash decided to open up a new world of musical activities on his own, ratherthan in the Kazakh opera world.

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8. 2017: From China to the World “I’m a singer”

◆Click here for “Singer 2017”

◆January: He signed a contract with Black Gold Talent Beijing, China. After the TV contest program which he appeared under a Chinese name 迪希玛 (Di Ma Xi), his world was dramatically changed. Many people in the world started to know his name through internet and he gained a lot of popularity. Accordingly, fan club (fan-based) activities around the world was started by means of SNS.

◆June: Performed the concert “Bastau” (Beginning)
Prior to this concert, Dimash had a special call to fans around the world along with a video where he sang “Salem” on 18th June on Instagram. (the message was in Kazakh, Russian, English and Chinese.)

Translation:
[# We have only 10 days for the BASTAU concert!. If you want to attend the concert please, do this. Like you see in this video, sing out Dimash’s new song in your town and tweet to SNS with a hushtag like #BASTAU #FanDQ. Then, send full version of your video to fundimash@gmail.com. It is your chance to take a place on huge screen broadcast at Astana Arena!. Here I made a sample of video which you can see. Are you ready? Then GO! ]

“Only 10 days left until #BASTAUShow! If you want to become a part of it, here's what you need to do: make a video of yourself like this one, sing Dimash's new song in the centre of your town, upload your video in the social networks using #BASTAU and #FanDQ hashtags, then send the full version of your video to fundimash@gmail.com. And you will have the chance of appearing on the huge screens of Astana Arena during Dimash Kudaibergen great solo concert. This video was made as an example by Dimash especially for you! Are you ready? Let's do this!”

(from his instagram, https://www.instagram.com/p/BVcvpgrFltz/?
fbclid=IwAR3XWKdL9rR6DqDD7QVHtuKAkUpMdrIrQzcPls7XqvxzN_SLRy2PLGI5MZE)

◆September: Performed as a headliner and as the ending singer at “Gakku Open-Air-Festival”
(GAKKU TV is the first music channel which contains only production in Kazakhstan. It is
broadcasted on Cable TV, Satellite TV and aims to expand music and culture of Kazakhstan and enhance patriotism.)

◆October: Denis Ten who is a figure skater and friend of Dimash, used Dimash’s song “SOS d'un terrien en détresse” for his free skating for the 2018–19 figure skating season.

★This year, he won many awards at many stages and events in China.

★This year was especially lucky for Dimash who had a friendship with Jackie Chan the movie star he wanted to meet.

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Click here for“Singer 2017”

Click here for transcriptions of“Singer 2017”

9. 2018

◆Started “D-Dynasty World Live Tour” domestic tour in China

◆November: Performed Solo Concert “London Concert DQ” at Indigo at The O2 in London, UK.
This concert was held as a part of activities of Kazakhstan Cultural Day in the UK” by Kazakhstan Ministry of Culture and Sports with corporation of Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in UK.

◆19th July: There was sad news that Denis Ten was killed by a robber. He was Dimash’s best friend, Dimash had send a birthday message to him a month before the accident. Dimash was deeply shocked and he expressed condolences on Instagram.

◆September: Performed as a guest singer at Russian International Contest “New Wave”. This performance was done by a joint casting from A’Studio at which he sang “Sinful passion”, and on live stage he sang “Adagio” at closing ceremony.

◆November: A collaboration performance with renowned Russian Composer Igor Krutoy was started.

He released a cover song “The love of tired swan" (RU: Любовь уставших лебедей) composed by Igor Krutoy and lyrics by Mikhail Gutseriyev (Russian poet)

The love of tired swan [Official MV]

10. 2019-

◆February 2019: He participated in the CBS’s talent competition program “The World’s Best”, but he withdrew himself from the semifinals. (He explained to avoid any competition with minors after this.)

◆March 2019: Moscow concert

◆21st June 2019: Sang Ogni Pietra (Olympico) at opening ceremony of European competition in Minsk, Belarus

◆29th June 2019: Performed ‘ARNAU’ (Devotion) subtitled “Dimash Kinetic Voice” at Astana arena in Kazakhstan

After this, he launched the ongoing world tour ARNAU (As of 2020).

◆Novemeber 2019: St. Petersburg concert in Russia

◆December 2019: New York concert in USA, subtitled “ENVOY”

◆“ARNAU” subtitled EUROPE
Schedule
February 2020
Krasnodar (Russia)
Kazan (Russia)
Yekaterinburg (Russia)

March 2020
7th Riga (Latvia)
9th Moscow (Russia)
11th Kiev (Ukraine)
19th Hamburg (Germany)
21th Düsseldorf (Germany)
25th Prague (Czech)
29th Stuttgart (Germany)

April 2020
4th Minsk (Belarus)

March 2021
20th Düsseldorf (Germany)
26th Prague (Czech) Here for Tickets Düsseldorf and Prague
28th Minsk (Belarus) Here for tickets

◆Summer 2019: Released the first studio album ‘ID’ (See details under Discography)

◆October 2019: Performed as a guest at Igor Krutoy’s 65th birthday anniversary concert at New York Barclays Center / U.S.A

◆November 2019: He participated in “ABU TV Song Festival Tokyo” as representative of Kazakhstan, he made a memorable first visit to Japan

★17th He uploaded voice included message video on Instagram
★18th Showed up on live broadcast “Gogo Nama” NHK program
★19th Public program recording at NHK Hall Tokyo / Japan (broadcasted at ABU member
countries)
★Broadcasted in Japan on 28th December at NHK Sogo / 30th December at NHK BS Premium /
30th December ~ 1st January at NHK World