🇺🇦 Jerry Heil and Julia Sanina release “WABI-SABI”

Jerry Heil, who represented Ukraine in Eurovision 2024 alongside alyona alyona, has teamed up with Eurovision 2023 host Julia Sanina to release the single.

Song uses Japanese themes

The track is named after, and inspired by, the Japanese concept of Wabi-sabi – which is the acceptance, and finding of beauty, in imperfection. The music video of the song also features the art of kintsugi, which is mending broken pottery with gold. Jerry Heil said of the meaning behind the song:

Today, you won’t find a single Ukrainian who is not traumatized, either morally or physically. This is a new reality that must be accepted, and in this reality new understandings of beauty appear

Julia Sanina added:

“By gathering ourselves from the fragments, like a broken vase, we become even stronger, even more beautiful, we become different and learn to love ourselves – as we are now. This is an art that we are all learning as a society. Because we will never be the same as we were,”

The video also features dancer Yulia Grigoryeva, a graduate of the Superhumans centre, which treats and rehabilitates those injureed in the war.

Watch the music video for “WABI-SABI” here

Listen to “WABI-SABI” on streaming services

Ukraine’s Eurovision Journey

Ukraine is one of the most successful countries to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest. The country has scored nine top-five placements, with an extra four top-ten finishes. Ukraine won the Contest three times – in 2004, 2016 and 2022 respectively. Ukraine made history for being the first ex-Soviet country to win the Contest more than once.

In 2024 alyona alyona and Jerry Heil represented Ukraine in Malmö with their song “Teresa and Maria”. The duo finished in 3rd place, scoring 453 points – of which 146 points came from the jury, whilst the remaining 307 points came from the televote.

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