Mama Sheli
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Hebrew: מאמה שלי (My Mother). Circle dance by Nurit Melamed, 2019.
The song for this dance is called just "Mama". The music was written by Yulduz Usmonova, an Uzbek singer, songwriter, composer, and actress. The lyrics, by Elena Zakirova and Elena Klimashkina, are in Russian.
One version commonly used for dancing is sung by Sarit Hadad. It has been reported that Sarit sings Russian with "a strong Georgian accent". Her parents were from the Republic of Dagestan, at the southernmost tip of Russia, which has no fewer than fourteen official languages—not including Georgian, despite the fact that Dagestan borders Georgia! A precise characterization of Sarit's accent is presumably a difficult exercise.
Links
Mama sung by Yulduz Usmonova
Official website of Yulduz Usmonova
Yulduz Usmonova at Wikipedia