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finally, she went from the war zone to center stage here in the u.s. stephanie gosk now with the powerful performance by ukrainian music star reporter: ukrainian band koska has tens of millions of fans i eastern europe their dream was to play at south by southwest, the famed music festival in austin, texa test test test t test test that dream was about to come true, and then the war broke out. two of the three had to fight for their country. lead singer oleksandra zaritska was left with a tough choice i m ukrainian, and i have my voice, and my voice is my powers. reporter: feeling she could do more here, zaritska flew to texas by herself and took the stage on saturday with stand-in band mates and a crowd wrapped in ukrainian flags. what was it like for you to step on that
Oleksandra Zaritska woke up to a phone call on February 25 at 5 a.m. On the other end of the line was her mother informing her Russia's war on Ukraine had begun. From there, her "big" – and brave – journey from Kyiv to the United States would begin.
Kazka’s male members took up arms to repel Putin’s invasion. But the band’s singer, Oleksandra Zaritska, was still determined to appear at the festival.