Unrelated video shared as visuals of Ukraine President Zelensky singing ‘Endless Love’ along with his wife - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
March 10, 2022
A video is being shared on social media claiming it as visuals of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife singing the ‘Endless Love’ song. Amid the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict, this video is going viral on social media. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky singing ‘Endless Love’ song along with his wife.
Fact: The video shared in the post shows Boyce Avenue and Connie Talbot’s acoustic cover of the famous ‘Endless Love’ song originally sung by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross in 1981. This video shows English Singer Connie Talbot singing the ‘Endless Love’ song along with Alejandro Manzano, a musician and one of the founding members of the America-based ‘Boyce Avenue’ cover band group. This video does not show President Volodymyr Zelensky singing along with his wife Olena Zelenska. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
On reverse image search of the screenshots in the video, a video with similar visuals was found published on the Boyce Avenue YouTube channel on 20 February 2022. The description of the video states, “Boyce Avenue and Connie Talbot’s acoustic cover of “Endless Love” by Lionel Richie ft. Diana Ross”. According to the description of the video, this video shows English Singer Connie Talbot singing ‘Endless Love’ song along with Alejandro Manzano, a musician and one of the founding members of ‘Boyce Avenue’ band group. ‘Boyce Avenue’ is an American cover band formed in 2004 by brothers Alejandro Luis Manzano, Daniel Enrique Manzano, and Fabian Rafael Manzano.
Connie Talbot shared the same video on her YouTube channel on 14 February 2022. A few other videos of Connie Talbot singing with Alejandro Manzano can be seen here and here.
Olena Zelenska, the First Lady of Ukraine, is a screenwriter by profession and one of the founding members of the ‘Studio Kvartal 95’ production house. Pictures of Olena Zelenska with her husband Volodymyr Zelensky can be seen here and here. Lately, Olena Zelenska released an open letter to international media condemning the Russian invasion of her country.
To sum it up, an unrelated video is shared as visuals of Ukraine President Zelensky singing the ‘Endless Love’ song along with his wife.