Can Dua Lipa’s family change Kosovo’s image?

Business Daily

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

More than 25 years after the Kosovo war, a music festival in the capital Pristina is hoping to change the image of the country around the world by inviting international artists and fans to learn more about the country’s cultural scene. Sunny Hill Festival is organised by global pop star Dua Lipa and her dad Dugi, who’s from Pristina.

They are using their industry contacts to bring acts like Bebe Rexha, Stormzy and Burna Boy to party with tens of thousands of people, as well as inviting top industry experts. But more than 15 years after Kosovo declared independence, could politicians be doing more to help boost the country’s music scene rather than relying on the Lipa family? Produced and presented by Daniel Rosney

(Dua Lipa performs on stage with her father Dukagjin Lipa during her first concert held in her hometown Pristina in 2016)

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Daniel Rosny, and welcome to this edition of Business Daily from the BBC World Service,
0:08.0	where we're going to be focusing on one of the most talked about music festivals in southern Europe
0:12.6	that took place last weekend, Sunny Hill.
0:15.6	It's organized by one of the world's biggest pop stars, Dua Leeper and her family.
0:24.3	This is my second time here.
0:26.1	And what makes it so good?
0:28.1	I don't know, the people, the atmosphere.
0:30.6	Pretty excited within your location and everything.
0:33.7	So I'm super happy to be here.
0:36.2	I've learned that the people is so good.
0:38.4	The food is very good.
0:39.7	Looking forward to see Bibirexa.
0:45.2	More than 25 years after a conflict in Kosovo left more than 10,000 dead.
0:50.4	Doolipa and Haddad Duggy, who's from the capital, Pristina,
0:53.6	want to change the image from a war-torn region to show a new thriving cultural scene, hoping to bring music lovers from around the world here and to boost the local economy.
1:04.3	Although the festival's been running since 2018, they've just been given a lease by the city's municipality for this new site we're at now.
1:12.9	There are two stages, tens of thousands of fans, artists like Groove Armada and Black Coffee are on the bill,
1:18.8	and there's a sunset, no photo on Instagram can capture the beauty of.
1:23.5	This is where the festival will make its home for many years to come.
1:27.3	Over the past weekend, international stars like BV. Rexer, Burner Boy, Stormsy and DJ Snake all took to the stage.
1:34.6	And we're going to find out on this episode the challenges of putting on a four-day event in this part of the world.
1:40.8	How Dewa used her contacts of Miley Cyrus and Calvin Harris to get the ball rolling six years ago
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