One Kazakh official described the events as an attempt to show Americans that the Central Asian country is about more than "gas and oil." At New York City's Carnegie Hall, ...

In recent years, Kazakhstan’s music scene has undergone a unique transformation with the emergence of Qazaq-Pop (Q-Pop) and the growing popularity of R&B as prominent genres. Q-Pop, as the name ...

Kazakh global sensation Dimash isn’t just a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist - he’s a man on a mission. With his pitch-perfect, virtuosic vocals and genre-defying music, he is ...

Functions is our interview series profiling crucial parties from across the world. This week: Almaty's ZVUK. Kazakhstan’s premier club night ZVUK launched in August 2016, taking over a disused World ...

Kazakhstan's music scene blends tradition and innovation. In Almaty, the dombra - a symbol of national pride - shines at the Ykhlas Museum, celebrating the nomadic heritage.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev called it “a revival of [Kazakhstan’s] historical statehood” (emphasis in the original), meant to introduce Kazakhstan to the world and gain global acknowledgment of ...

Aidos Sagat was born in 1970 in Almaty, the then capital of Kazakhstan. He grew up with a love of music and graduated from the Kazakh National Conservatory as a talented composer and pianist. In 1994, ...

Kazakhstan’s music scene has evolved with the rise of Q-Pop and R&B, which blend global musical trends with distinctly Kazakh influences. Q-Pop (or, Qazaq-Pop) draws inspiration from Korea’s K-Pop ...

In an exclusive interview with Euronews, Dimash discusses his unique fusion of classical, Kazakh and contemporary music, and his mission to spread his "country’s culture, songs, and traditional ...