Biography
Buranovskiye Babushki (Russian: Бурановские Бабушки; Udmurt: Брангуртысь песянайёс, Brangurtys' Pes'anayos; literally Grannies from Buranovo) is an eight elderly women ethno-pop group from Russia. Buranovskiye Babushki represents Russia with "Party For Everybody" in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The group consists of eight grandmothers, but only six are allowed to appear on the Eurovision stage. They are originally from the Burano, Udmurt Republic, Russia. The group performs most of their songs in the Udmurt language.
The group had previously participated on Russia's Eurovision song selection in 2010 with the song "Dlinnaja-Dlinnaja Beresta I Kak Sdelat Iz Nee Aishon" ("Very long birch bark and how to turn it into a turban"), where they finished third. They made another attempt to represent Russia by participating on Russia's Eurovision song selection in 2012 with the song "Party for Everybody", which eventually finished in first place, receiving 38.51 points ahead of former Eurovision 2008 winner Dima Bilan who also entered the contest with T.A.T.u. member Yulia Volkova with the song "Back To Her Future" which finished in second place, receiving only 29.25 points. The group say that in 2012 they will use any cash raised to build a church in Buranovo.
Their other recorded songs include: "Yesterday" (The Beatles cover), "Hotel California" (Eagles cover), "The Star Called Sun" ("Zvezda Po Imeni Solntse", Kino cover), "I Am Beautiful", "Sneg-Snezhok", "Chiborio", "Babushki-Starushki".
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