Sociolinguistic Artifacts

This is a video of Tatar singer Dilarya Vagapova performing a half-Tatar half-Russian reggae song 'Soldier', originally a Russian song by a Ukrainian band, on the Russian version of the Voice. She uses the switch between Tatar and Russian to reinforce her own ethnic identity and to also display her knowledge of multiple codes, including international ones (as the song contains some English lyrics). наслаждайтесь!