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Putin makes song club hit

Updated on: 02 July,2011 07:31 AM IST  | 
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin caused jaws to drop last year when he gave an impromptu performance of the Fats Domino classic Blueberry Hill at a charity concert

Putin makes song club hit

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin caused jaws to drop last year when he gave an impromptu performance of the Fats Domino classic Blueberry Hill at a charity concert.

Now one of the country's best known DJs has remixed Putin's vocals into a six-minute dance track that he says is wowing clubbers around the country, even if he admits that Putin is "not a singer."



"It was so funny seeing the video on the Internet. When I got the track, I mixed it in a day. It was like kind of a joke," said DJ Smash, whose real name is Andrei Shirman.

"Now it's very popular, it plays all over the clubs. People smile, everyone knows this track."

Last December, Putin revealed a new side when he got on stage at a star-studded charity concert in Saint Petersburg and performed the song in correct, if accented English.

He went on to bash out a Soviet-era song on the piano.

For his part, DJ Smash says that he is an absolutely non-political person, and the remix is not a demonstration of support for Putin as a politician.

u00a0Putin has so far made no comments regarding the track.




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