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Yalla ( Cyrillic: Ялла; pronounced in Uzbek) is a folk rock band from Uzbekistan. They appeared in 1970 and in the 1970s-1980s, were popular all over the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries. The most prominent song of Yalla was Uchquduq - three water wells, and it was once the most popular hit in USSR in 1980s. They sing in Uzbek, Russian, and occasionally some other languages, such as Arabic, German and Tatar.
The leader of the band is Farrukh Zokirov. The members of Yalla are graduates of the Ostrovsky Theatrical Art Institute and the Ashrafi State Conservatory in Tashkent. They are not Russian but Uzbek, a Turkic nationality from the crossroads of the ancient Silk Road. Their music incorporates traditional ethnic folk tunes and poetry of Uzbekistan and other Central Asian and Middle Eastern cultures, along with contemporary pop and dance influences, into a unique international blend. They perform songs in more than 10 languages, including Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Nepalese and French as well as Uzbek and Russian.
Formed in the early 1970s, Yalla has appeared on Soviet national television as well as performing in Moscow and elsewhere in the Soviet Union, and on concert tours in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, including featured appearances at the "Voice of Asia" festival. The Yalla band had some changes at the time of Collapse of Soviet Union. The Immigration of Rustam Iliasov (bass guitar) to the United States and independence of Uzbekistan Made Yalla change they're songs more local. Some new hits came out such as Uzbekistan, bez lubimyh Glaz and some more. Yalla invited a dancer Roza Abdulhairiva to make a some more dance show mixed with singing. Yalla has invited Tolkin Isakov who was a percussion teacher at the Tashkent State Conservatory. He replaced Rustam Iliasov. Percussionist Ibragim Aliev was a good addition to Yalla with a brilliant performance on Uzbek national percussion instruments. It was another pick of Yala for few years (1994-1999).
Yalla was a journal focusing on humanizing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by encouraging creative expression. It was collaboration between young Canadian Arabs and Jews, distributed worldwide. Yalla published two journals, in 2005 and 2007.
The Yalla project was a not-for-profit international initiative aimed at stimulating dialogue and demonstrating the human side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the perspective of mainly Jewish and Arab youth. The project began as a literary journal by students at McGill University in 2004. Yalla brought together poetry, short stories, essays, art, music and photography of Arab and Jewish youth.
The title of the journal is derived from the Arabic and Hebrew slang word “Yalla”, meaning “Let's Go!”
Yalla, with variants Yallah and Yala, is a common expression denoting "come on", "let's get going", and mostly meaning "hurry up" in the Arabic language. It comes from and is an abbreviation of classical (traditional) Arabic words "Ya Allah" (in Arabic يا ألله) literally meaning "O God". The phrase has also been transliterated into ( Hebrew: יאללה), as slang, making it extremely common in Israel.
Yalla or Yallah may refer to:
Yalla is a song recorded by Romanian recording artist INNA for her fourth studio album INNA (2015), and its Japanese release, Body And The Sun (2015). It was released on 3 November 2015 together with its digital remix EP. "Yalla" was written by Marcel Botezan, Sebastian Barac and Nadir Tamuz Augustin, while production was handled by the first two, under the name of Play & Win. A music video for the song, which was filmed in Marrakesh, Morocco and directed by Barna Nemethi, premiered on Inna's YouTube channel on 12 November 2015, where it has since amassed over 75 million views. The recording was met with good reviews. Hitfire praised the song's beats and Inna's vocals, while also comparing the track to Major Lazer's " Lean On". The song peaked at number 11 on Romania's Year-End Chart.