The Russian DJ Nina Kraviz is no longer playing at three music festivals this summer following criticism over her political history and recent rhetoric about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Kraviz, one of the most famous Russian pop musicians on a global scale, has been called out by Ukrainian and Russian electronic music artists over the past couple months for previous social media posts that appear to support Vladimir Putin, as well as her public silence once the invasion began. (Many of these criticisms were surfaced in a May 18 TIME article.) Earlier this month, the Rotterdam music company Clone Distribution announced it would sever ties with Kraviz’s record label Trip Recordings, citing “different views on ethical and moral matters”.
Now, Kraviz has been removed from three upcoming bills: Movement Music Festival in Detroit, The Crave in the Hague, and PollerWiesen in Germany.
The language used in each festival’s announcement was vague, and made it unclear whether the decision was primarily made by the festival or Kraviz. Movement simply tweeted that Kraviz was “unable to play Movement this year”. The festival had been receiving calls for Kraviz’s removal from local groups, including the Ukrainian-American Crisis Response Committee of Michigan, who put out a letter and a petition. “We cannot stand by while our community, Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians alike, mobilizes to help those suffering in Ukraine, yet welcomes someone whose behavior has helped enable Putin… Silence only breeds more injustice”, their letter reads....
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