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Batyrkhan Shukenov: Voice That Taught Us What Home Means

By Aida Haidar  on 17 May 2026

There are songs that don’t just become popular. Instead, they settle into the bloodstream of a country. Over time, they stop belonging to the artist and start belonging to people. They become something close to an unofficial national language of feeling. For Batyrkhan Shukenov, or Batyr, as he was...