When I first heard about Dimash's program 'Voice Beyond Horizon', I wondered what he would put together. I knew Dimash is a perfectionist and would want to make sure the program was of a level he considered excellent but I wasn't sure of his skills and knowledge levels when it came to such a production. Plus he might be constrained by sponsor requirements or things of that sort. I am a huge fan but I don't have blinkers on. I call him a genius when it comes to singing but I wasn't sure about show production. On the day of premiere, February 5 2026, I sat in front of my laptop and watched promos and the prologue episode. WELL. I actually forgot to eat dinner. The flow of events, the introductions, the wry humour ... oh, so entertaining and engaging. Then the show itself began. I was hopping from platform to platform trying to find livestreams and trying to respond to numerous msgs asking where when how. I finally settled on the Mango ...
Nine years ago, Dimash stepped up on a stage in China and performed so spectacularly that countless lives were changed. That decision of his triggered so many to start doing things they had forgotten or never done before... in music and art. So many got passports, bought tickets so they could fly to concerts in cities they had never heard of before. Many more installed apps so they could get more of his music. Going far beyond their comfort zone... Here is that incredible SOS D'un Terrien En Detresse on the Singer 2017 stage. And a week later, he blew people's socks off with his interpretation of 'Opera 2'. 'Opera 2' was the absolute first Dimash video I saw and watched to the end. And today is exactly nine years since that broadcast. If I had seen other videos before that, I didn't understand them as Dimash videos and I don't remember them. But this THIS was the absolute first one that hit me like a sledgehammer. And changed the way I spe...