I was looking for some information on the web this afternoon about the Vietnamese singers who appeared in the pop section of the ASEAN Golden Melodies Festival last night. I couldn't find what I wanted but my search did lead me to this video on YouTube labeled 'Cute, pretty, hot and sexy Viet' (this is a copy of the video - the original was taken down, perhaps for copyright reasons).

The person who uploaded the original video (which at that stage had been watched more than half a million times) said he wanted to demonstrate that Vietnamese girls have 'class' - apparently someone had posted a comment that Vietnamese girls don't have any class, but it wasn’t the girls in the video that attracted my attention, but the background music.

I initially thought it was a Vietnamese pop song, but after listening to it a couple of times I realised that the language was not Vietnamese. The language was familiar, but it wasn't until I did a bit more research that I identified it as a song by a group from Kazakhstan called Do-Mi-No (in Kazakh the name is written as Do-Mи-No).

The name of the song is variously written as Ayim ai, Ayimay or Ajimaj.

I also found a video of the group performing the song live at a concert:

I will check to see if they have anything on iTunes when I get back to KL. I like their music.