On the Russian stage, every second - if not every first! – a performer originally from Ukraine. Moreover, this tradition, started in the good old days Soviet times, continues to this day.

Joseph Kobzon

Joseph Kobzon

The most significant contribution to the Soviet, and now to the Russian stage, is, of course, Joseph Davydovich Kobzon. The singer was born in the city of Chasov Yar, Donetsk region; subsequently the Kobzon family lived in Lvov, Kramatorsk and Dnepropetrovsk, where Joseph graduated from the local mining technical school. Kobzon received his musical education at the Odessa Conservatory.

In the 50s of the last century, Joseph Davydovich left for Moscow, where he has lived since then. But he doesn’t forget his homeland, and it pays him back: Kobzon has the title people's artist Ukraine, and in Donetsk in 2003 they even erected a lifetime monument to him.

Lyudmila Senchina

Lyudmila Senchina

Cinderella Russian stage was born in the village of Kudryavtsy, Bratsk district, Nikolaev region. From there the family moved to Krivoy Rog, where Lucy graduated from school. Senchina received her musical education in Leningrad, at the Rimsky-Korsakov School, but she believes that her singing talent was given to her by her native place: “In Ukraine, everyone sings, cleanly and beautifully, especially in the villages.”

Alexander Serov

Alexander Serov

Another native of the Nikolaev region is Alexander Serov, his small homeland- Kovalevka village. And, according to him, he still loves the village - “with soul and heart.” Serov received his musical education in Nikolaev, where he also directed the VIA "Singing Young Boys", and after moving to Chernivtsi - the VIA "Cheremosh".

By the standards of show business, success came to Serov quite late, after 30 years, when he burst onto the Soviet stage with the songs of Igor Krutoy. Alexander Nikolaevich, despite the fact that he has long and firmly settled in Moscow, does not forget the Ukrainian language, which he likes to demonstrate at concerts. With age, he feels nostalgia more and more strongly, but does not let it run wild: “I try to get away from memories of the past, they suck in and can lead to depression.”

Lolita Milyavskaya

Lolita Milyavskaya

The singer was born in Mukachevo, graduated from school in Kyiv, graduated from the Institute of Culture in Tambov, and first appeared on stage in Odessa. True, then she did not sing, but spoke - the genre in which she initially performed was called “conversational miniature.” There, in the city by the sea, her creative and family union with Alexander Tsekalo took shape. The cabaret duo "Academy" moved to Moscow to try their luck in the early 90s, where its soloists eventually made a career - first together, then separately.

Lolita comes to Kyiv infrequently, only for concerts, although the two people closest to her live here - mother Alla Dmitrievna and daughter Eva.

Natasha Koroleva

Natasha Koroleva

Natasha Koroleva (then Poryvay) has the most pleasant memories of her childhood in Kiev. It did not take place in the most prestigious area - on Borshchagovka, where the future singer first went to kindergarten and then to school. Neighbors still remember that Natasha always sang, even if no one asked her to do so. The future star did not study very well (they say that mathematics and physics were the hardest for her) and after the 8th grade she entered the Circus School.

On stage from the age of 3: she made her debut with the song “Cruiser Aurora”, performed with the Great Children’s Choir of Radio and Television of Ukraine. At the age of 16, Natasha went to Moscow to audition for the popular composer Igor Nikolaev, for whom she became his wife and muse for many years Now the singer comes to Kiev only to visit.

Anastasia Stotskaya

Anastasia Stotskaya

She was born in Kyiv in the family of a resuscitator and an artist. When Nastya turned five years old, her parents decided that it was time to teach her something. Mom took Nastya to music school and a dance club - the future star danced for five years in the famous children's ensemble "Kiyanochka" at the Kiev Teacher's House.

The parents wanted their daughter to become a doctor, but she categorically cannot stand the sight of blood, so she followed her brother, actor Pavel Maykov, to the RATI. She became famous after the musical "Chicago" and winning the competition " New wave"in Jurmala. She comes to Kyiv quite often - she visits her relatives, last year she took part in the show "Star Plus Star" on the "1+1" channel.

Valeriy Meladze

Valeriy Meladze

Unlike previous Kiev stars, the last romantic of the Russian stage, as Valeria is often called, was born and raised in Batumi, Georgia. But Ukraine played a significant role in his life and in the life of his brother Konstantin. The Meladze brothers graduated from the Nikolaev Shipbuilding Institute, where they created music group"Dialogue". Valery's solo debut took place in 1993 in Kyiv - at the Roksolana flower festival, after which he signed the first contract in his life.

Lives in Moscow, but often visits Kyiv with his brother Konstantin, who loves this city very much and moves to Russian capital not going to. At least for now.

Stas Kostyushkin

Stas Kostyushkin

But the largest diaspora on the Russian stage is, of course, Odessa. This city, as one of its natives, lead singer of the group “Tea for Two” Stas Kostyushkin, assures, supplies talent not only for itself and Ukraine and Russia, but also for the whole world - America, Israel, Australia. “Probably,” says Stas, “there is something in the spirit of the Black Sea, and in the very atmosphere of this city, in its air, about which Utesov once sang: “Here is the air that I breathed in as a child, and plenty of it.” I couldn't breathe."

True, Kostyushkin did not live long in Odessa: when he was only a year old, his parents moved to Leningrad. But they still came to their grandparents every year to warm up and swim in the sea. Stas always wanted to be like his Odessa grandfather, military journalist Mikhail Iosifovich Shulman. In his honor, he named the Stanley Shulman Band, with which he began performing, deciding to make solo career.

Larisa Dolina

Larisa Dolina

Despite the fact that Larisa Alexandrovna’s passport says “Baku City” in the “Place of Birth” column, she considers herself a native Odessa resident, since she moved to this city at the age of three. In Odessa, Dolina graduated from a music school, studying cello, and subsequently sang in pop orchestra"We are Odessa residents." Higher musical education the singer received it already in Moscow - at the Gnessin Music School.

Despite the fact that the singer’s Odessa childhood was not the most fabulous - according to her recollections, she was malnourished and lived in a damp semi-basement for several years after moving, Larisa Alexandrovna loves her hometown, often visits it and, at the first opportunity, inserts songs about it into your speeches.

Vera Brezhneva

Vera Brezhneva

Vera Brezhneva is our last – in time! - present Russian show business. When at the Golden Gramophone award ceremony the presenter mistakenly called her a Kievite, Vera corrected him: “I’m not a Kievite, but a Makeyevka, which is much cooler these days.” She graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, majoring in economics.

From 2003 to 2007, Brezhneva sang in the VIA-Gra group, and was part of its so-called “golden lineup”. Lives in Kyiv. But since today rare concert and the project on Russian television does without the participation of the singer, spends most of his time in Moscow.

Taisiya Kondratyeva

13.12.2016, 16:00

Both ours and yours

Without Tabu continues to write about Ukrainian performers and groups who do not hesitate to earn money by performing in the aggressor country - Russia.

We have already published a list of. They hit him like this famous personalities and teams like Ivan Dorn, Loboda, Pur:pur, SunSay (Andrey Zaporozhets), Mushrooms, Max Barskikh and Vera Brezhneva. What does it have to do with those who moved to Russia? Ani Lorak, Taisiya Povaliy and Django we took it out of brackets, and "VIA Gro", Konstantin Meladze and Elku considered to be conditionally “Ukrainian” artists who have long established themselves on the Russian stage.

As we wrote earlier, in tour schedule Potap and Nastya Kamensky There are now no Russian sites - probably the extensive criticism has had an effect. Although, the duet sometimes appears at Russian national concerts.

Veterans of the stage act according to the same scheme - Sofia Rotaru, Irina Bilyk, Olga Polyakova and Verka Serduchka - they don't tour in Russia, but occasionally appear at the anniversaries of their Russian friends, award presentations and New Year's programs. In addition, the same Andrei Danilko admitted in an interview with journalists that he performs at closed corporate events and private parties.

With ostentatious reluctance, she refused to perform in Moscow and DJ Anastasia Topolskaya- “favorite person” of People’s Deputy Sergei Leshchenko. The deputy's lover wrote on social networks that criticism of her Moscow sets made her feel a little Ani Lorak.

Without Taboo, I tried to feel what it was like to “be Ani Lorak”, and, after analyzing open sources, has compiled an additional list of Ukrainian artists who still allow themselves to earn money by performing in the aggressor country.

1. Dmitry MONATIK. You may not know who this is, but among the 30+ category, this young man is held in high esteem. Ukrainian singer and dancer, participant in the popular show "X Factor" and coach of the very popular program "The Voice Children". According to M1 TV channel, MONATIK - Ukrainian "singer of the year"(yes, the times of Pavel Zibrov, Ivo Bobul and Alexander Ponomarev are over). At the end of December, Dmitry will “whirl” the audience in Sochi, and at the beginning of 2017 he will perform in Yekaterinburg, Ufa and Chelyabinsk.

2. Anna Sedakova. Ex-soloist of "VIA Gra", like others former members groups (Loboda, Vera Brezhneva), also a frequent guest in Russia. For example, in October she “took Kazan” - her fans posted photos from the concert on the social network (below - ed.).

Anna Sedakova becomes Taisiya Povaliy

3. Nikita Alekseev. Participant in the "Voice of the Country" show, winner of the M1 Music Awards 2016 in the "Breakthrough of the Year" category. In 2015, the young artist became famous thanks to the remake of the 90s hit from Irina Bilyk’s repertoire “And I’m Plivu U Chovni” and his song “ drunken sun". Alekseev has already become a frequent guest at various Russian hodgepodges like "Song of the Year" or "Golden Gramophone". And in August he gave a solo concert in Krasnodar. Next year he has a concert planned in Svetlogorsk.

Be on time everywhere like Alekseev

4. Quest Pistols. The outrageous Ukrainian group visited at least four Russian cities with concerts in 2016, and planned to “take” Kazan in March 2017 (perhaps inspired by Sedakova’s successful performance).

Updated lineup

5. Time and Glass. This pop group is Potap’s production project and, although the showman himself now avoids concerts in the Russian Federation, he still sends his charges to earn money. In the summer, this duo had a concert in a Moscow club, and recently the guys went to receive an award from Russian radio.

The entire male population of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus is dying for them. Ordinary Ukrainian girls, with different education, With different corners our Batkivshchyna, were able to conquer this or that part of the world.

The pride of the country, the world business card Ukraine and we could not help but pay attention to the most beautiful and talented. OFFICEPLANKTON is pleased to present the 10 most beautiful singers our beloved Ukraine.

Alena Vinnitskaya

A brutal rocker - that’s the image Alena fits. Gained popularity thanks to the most successful project of 2000 - the group " Via Gra“, where she sang together with other charming ladies: Nadezhda Granovskaya and Anna Sedokova. The most amazing thing about the Via Gra group was that, in addition to beautiful girls in sexy outfits, they sang really hit songs, and not cheap Russian pop. It was these things that made men fall in love with Ukrainian pop music, and there was a reason for it...

You’re sitting there, watching the video “ My attempt number 5“And then a friend comes in and immediately throws a question at you: “ What kind of Russian pop do you like?“And you explain to the person that this is not just Russian pop music, but the famous group “Via Gra” and let him look charming performers songs and you immediately notice how your friend’s jaw opens and drools. But it’s not just your friends that are important to you, damn the song “My Attempt No. 5” is really cool.

One day Alena left the group and Via Gra lost a lot, but Alena began a solo career. And when they talk about Alena Vinnitskaya’s new song on TV, you immediately understand that it won’t be another Russian gloom and melancholy like “Everything about him and about him,” but whatever song from Alena is, it will be rhythmic, with elements of rock and chic Ukrainian pop music.

Alyosha

Alexey, that’s exactly what the parents named the singer Alyosha.Joke!. In fact, the Ukrainian singer's name was Elena Kucher, and after marriage Elena Topolya. She became one of the significant figures of Ukrainian pop music thanks to the fact that she represented Ukraine at an international song competition Eurovision 2010, which took place in Oslo.

Today Alyosha happy mother, maintaining warmth and comfort in her home and raising her little son Roma with her beloved husband, singer Taras Topol.

Christmas tree

Elizaveta Valdemarovna Ivantsiv was born into the family of a jazz music collector and a musician who can play three instruments. In addition, my grandparents sang in the choir. So little Lisa decided to follow in the footsteps of her family (well, it’s not like Sopromat should be taught to her) and decided to devote her life to music.

Gained popularity thanks to such hits: “Provence”, “Handsome Boy”, “Near You” and “Fly, Lisa”. Also in 2011, she was a judge on the popular Ukrainian music show “ X Factor" She is the winner of 4 awards " Musical gramophone"and an RMA Award nominee on MTV. According to the magazine " Glamor"recognized as "Singer of the Year", all in the same 2011.

Vera Brezhneva

Vera Viktorovna Galushka Born into the family of a chemical plant worker and a nurse. She graduated from the university with a degree in economics, and fell into music by chance and became one of the members of the group “ Via Gra". The story goes that in June 2002, during a tour of Ukraine, “Via Gra” came out and wanted to sing from the audience famous hit“My attempt No. 5” together with the performers, and a couple of months later she was invited to casting in the same group, to replace Alena Vinnitskaya.

From that moment on, Vera’s career took off: the most sexy woman 2007 according to the magazine MAXIM, repeated roles in famous films With popular actors and of course a solo career.

Tina Karol

Real name - Tatyana Grigorievna Liberman. Graduated from the Faculty of Management and Logistics of the National Aviation Institute. In parallel with her studies, she studied vocals. Gained fame at the festival " New wave” in 2005, where she competed for the championship, but was awarded second place and a prize of $50,000. The money from the prize was spent on the debut video " Higher than clouds". In 2005, after the competition, she visited Iraq on a peacekeeping mission.

Also, since 2005, she has been a soloist of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In 2011, together with the Russian singer Sergei Lazarev and the duet Alibi, she was the host music project "Maidan's" on the Inter TV channel, and on February 6, 2014 won the “ Yuna" in nomination " best singer of the year»

Nastya Kamenskikh

Anastasia Alekseevna Kamenskikh was born in Kyiv in the family of the director and vocalist of the National Academic Folk Choir named after G. Verevka. The training took place in schools in France and Italy, through a child exchange program. Since childhood, her parents insisted and Nastya studied vocals.

In 2004, she entered the Ukrainian-American Humanitarian Institute “Wisconsin International University (USA) in Ukraine.” In 2004 she won the Grand Prix of the festival " Black Sea Games", and in 2007 she became a member of one of the best domestic pop duets " Potap and Nastya.»

In 2009, she became remembered by the world for her candid photo shoots in famous magazines. Playboy And MAXIM.

Nadezhda Granovskaya

Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Meikher born in the Khmelnitsky region in the village of Zbruchivka. In her childhood she moved to the regional center of Volochisk. After school, Nadya entered the Khmelnytsky Pedagogical School at the faculty of musical education and choreography, and after studying she moved to Kyiv, where she worked in the theater.

In 2000, Valery Meladze came to Khmelnitsky on tour and performed in the theater where Nadezhda worked. At Meladze’s concert, Nadya took a place in line to get an autograph from the singer, but when he saw her, he advised her to send her photos and resume to his brother, Konstantin Meladze. He is now putting together a pop group and needs young people, beautiful girls. Having done a photo shoot, Nadezhda sent her photos to Konstantin and a couple of months later she was invited to Kyiv, where she was invited to the famous group “ Via Gra«.

In the first 2 years of its existence, the Via Gra group released several videos: “Attempt No. 5”, “Hug Me”, “Bomb”, “I Won’t Return”, which took high places in the ratings and charts of Ukraine and Russia.

Ani Lorak

Karolina Miroslavovna Kuek Unlike most singers, she spent her childhood in poverty. In order to feed her children, my mother spent her days at work, and sent her children to a boarding school, where they lived until the 7th grade. Carolina's desire to become a singer appeared at the age of 4. Every year her desire only grew more and more.

Carolina often performed at school festivals and competitions, and at the festival " Primrose“In 1992, she met producer Yuri Falyosa, with whom she signed her first contract.

Carolina came up with her pseudonym herself in 1995, when at one of the Russian competitions previously registered participant Caroline. Ani Lorak- this is the name Caroline backwards. It was under this pseudonym that Carolina was presented at the competition for the program “ morning Star«.

Took second place at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.

Anna Sedokova

Anna Vladimirovna Sedokova native of Kyiv. Her parents ran away with hometown Tomsk, since their families were against their marriage. Mom's parents lived meagerly, and dad's parents were respected professors who were categorically against marriage. Therefore, Anya’s mom and dad simply ran away from their relatives.

Anya has been an excellent student all her life. She graduated from school with a gold medal, music school with honors. Then I entered Kiev University National University Culture and Arts with a degree in “Actor and Television Presenter” and graduated with honors. IN student years She moonlighted as a model and worked on the music channel O-TV.

In 2000, she was casting for the group “ VIA Gra “, which did not pass due to age. The producers considered the 17-year-old singer too young, but hired her in 2002. Since then famous duet turned into a famous trio.

Micah Newton

Oksana Stefanovna Gritsay born in the city of Burshtyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. My father loved to play the guitar, and in his youth he was in a band; my grandfather taught himself to play the violin and was a welcome guest at holidays and weddings. Oksana herself began to study vocals since childhood. She graduated from a music school with a degree in piano.

In 2001, she came to Kyiv to enroll in a variety school. In 2002 she won the festival " Black Sea Games". During her victory, producer Yuri Falyosa drew attention to her, with whom she entered into a contract.

It was he who came up with her nickname Micah Newton: he borrowed the name “Mika” from the famous rock musician Mick Jagger, and “Newton” translated from English “new tone” means “New Tone”.

The video for the song “Anomaly” brought her first popularity. In 2011, Oksana won the Eurovision Song Contest 2011.

For the first time, NV presents a special project of the Top 100 People of Culture - the highest echelon of the domestic artistic world, which has made a significant contribution to art and literature primarily over the last five years. Within its framework, the NV editors named the twenty best musicians countries - not as a rating, but as a selection in alphabetical order

Antony Baryshevsky

Pianist, 25 years old

Antony Baryshevsky is one of the youngest participants in the “cultural” hundred of NV, which does not prevent the capital’s virtuoso pianist from also being among the most titled.

People started talking about Baryshevsky back in 2000, when the 11-year-old (at that time) musician received the special prize in nomination Horowitz debut.

Since then, Baryshevsky has participated in many international competitions in different countries As a result, he became a laureate of almost two dozen international competitions.

In 2013-2014 alone, the pianist won five foreign awards at once: he won the international piano competitions in Paris and the Arthur Rubinstein competition in Tel Aviv, brought first prize from the Interlaken Classics competition in Bern, Switzerland, and the Grand Prix international competition music in Morocco, and also received second prize at the European Piano Evenings competition (Luxembourg).

Since 2012, Baryshevsky has been a soloist of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine. He also tours abroad a lot - both solo and with orchestras. The talented Kiev resident performed in concert halls France, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Iceland, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Morocco, Israel, USA.

Svyatoslav Vakarchuk

The adjective cult has been firmly attached to the name of the main Ukrainian rock musician Svyatoslav Vakarchuk for several years now. At a time when the success of musicians was determined by the number of records sold, the albums of Vakarchuk’s group Ocean Elzy sold hundreds of thousands of copies and received platinum status.

Now that the era of listening to music online has arrived, the impressive numbers of attendance at the band’s concerts speak eloquently of popular love. This summer, concerts as part of the tour dedicated to the band’s 20th anniversary, which took place in five cities of Ukraine, were attended by a quarter of a million listeners. And the Kiev show broke a record in the history of Ukrainian show business - listen Oceans at NSC Olympic 75 thousand people came.

In the context of the revolutionary and military events taking place in the country, Vakarchuk’s songs acquired special meaning for most Ukrainians. Millions of compatriots associate his work with the desire for changes that the country is waiting for, and civil position the musician is identified with his own.

In December 2013 Oceani performed on the stage of Euromaidan, and now they perform their songs in front of the Ukrainian military and residents of cities liberated from terrorists in eastern Ukraine.

Evgeniy Gudz

What Emir Kusturica and his No Smoking Orchestra are for the Balkan peoples, Evgeniy Gudz and his punk rock band Gogol Bordello are for the Ukrainians. The Ukrainian, who moved to the United States in the late 1980s, attracted the attention of audiences on both sides of the ocean with an explosive mixture of folk, rock, gypsy punk and carnival-like theatrical concerts.

The most famous fan of the rampant Gudz is the pop star Madonna, who invited him to star in the film Dirt and wisdom(2008), where the main soundtrack was the band's music, and the director was the singer herself. She sang with a Ukrainian during her solo concert London Live Earth at London's Wembley, and music magazine Rolling Stone turned on the band's music at 50 best albums and the 100 best songs of the year.

Since then, Gogol Bordello have recorded four full-length albums (seven in total), the last one is Pura Vida Conspiracy- came out in 2013.

And two years before it, the group’s first non-English-language record appeared My Gypsy, where Gudz included his version of the Dynamo Kyiv fan anthem and song Kiev my. Needless to say, the group’s infrequent tours in Ukraine always cause a stir, because in terms of the level of concert drive, few can compare with Gudzya’s company.

Jamala (Susana Jamaladinova)

Preserving identity, being original and at the same time recognized by a mass audience is not an easy task. On the Ukrainian stage, Jamala copes with it better than anyone else. Since the triumph music competition New wave in Jurmala, where in 2009 Jamala received the Grand Prix, she is true to herself in her style of performance, repertoire and closeness to her native Crimean Tatar roots.

The best evidence of Jamala’s creative self-sufficiency is both her solo album(For Every Heart, 2011 and All or Nothing, 2013), which are based on original compositions written by the singer herself. By the way, the singer sings in four languages ​​- Ukrainian, Russian, English and Crimean Tatar.

Jamala tirelessly experiments, performing at large concert venues and in front of sophisticated audiences at music festivals such as Jazz Koktebel. In addition, she participates in opera productions and filming (soundtrack and role in the film Guide Olesya Sanina).

Now a singer, who in 2011 was nominated for the MTV Europe Music Awards in the category Best Ukrainian artist, getting ready to go new album, where he experiments with electronic music.

Alla Zagaykevich

Among modern Ukrainian composers, Alla Zagaykevich is considered, if not a star, then a brilliant talent. And multifaceted. She is known for her works of both classical instrumental music (both symphonic and chamber) and electronic. Moreover, the composer is often called the “godmother” of Ukrainian experimental electronics.

However, Zagaykevich is not limited to just composing; she is the curator and inspirer of many electroacoustic projects and performances in Ukraine, such as the EM-VISIA (since 2005) and Electroacoustics (since 2003) festivals.

A few years ago, Zagaykevich, who heads the Ukrainian Association of Electro-Acoustic Music, founded her own Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, with which she recorded her debut CD Nord/Ouest in 2011.

At the same time, the Ukrainian artist’s creativity has long been noticed abroad. Zagaykevich is the winner of the international competition of contemporary classical and electroacoustic music Musica Nova (2011). Her works are performed in France, Canada, Austria, and she regularly participates in foreign festivals, including the Marathon of New Music in the Czech Republic, E-musika and Gaida in Lithuania, and Takefu International Music Festival in Japan.

Kirill Karabits

At the age of 37, Kiev resident Kirill Karabits has firmly established himself at the top of the international conducting Olympus. For more than five years he has led the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, one of the oldest and most respected in the UK. His resume includes collaborations with leading instrumental groups in America, Europe and Asia.

Great success came to Kirill Karabits, the son of the famous Ukrainian composer Ivan Karabits, with considerable difficulty. He studied in Kyiv and Vienna and won awards at prestigious international competitions several times. And then, having overcome serious competition of 60 people per seat, he received a position as assistant conductor of the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

Today, Karabits has a contract with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra until 2016 and engagements with the best instrumental groups from Los Angeles to Tokyo. Last year he was named conductor of the year by the Royal Philharmonic Society.

However, in the musician’s busy touring schedule there is always a place for his homeland - several times a year he performs in Kyiv together with local musicians. While abroad, the conductor supports Ukraine in ways accessible to people of culture. For example, last spring he dedicated his concerts with the orchestras of the German Essen and the French Lille to the memory of the heroes of the Heavenly Hundred who died during the confrontations on the Kiev Maidan.

Like most Soviet children, Alexei Kogan attended music school from an early age, where he learned the violin without much desire. He did not turn out to be a violinist - Kogan jokes that his playing could only earn enough for an inexpensive lunch. But without exaggeration, he turned out to be the best jazz connoisseur in the country.

Once upon a time, a young Kiev resident began collecting all available recordings of freedom-loving Western music that was then banned in the country. During the years of perestroika, this unique collection made him a sought-after radio presenter - for several years he conducted daily broadcasts in which he played his favorite music from his personal music library.

Now he participates in the organization of the main jazz festivals in Ukraine, including the Koktebel Jazz Festival and the Lviv Alfa Jazz Fest. The latter is only four years old, but world jazz legends like British guitarist John McLoughin or American Larry Carlton have already performed here. The festival's concerts are broadcast by the popular French music channel Mezzo, and the Western press includes it in the list of must-attend events.

Despite the fact that it is associated with jazz most of conscious life Kogan, he still claims that he still doesn’t know enough about this music. The jazz guru is sure: “A person who delves deeply into a topic understands that this is just the beginning. You have to study all your life.”

Alexandra Koltsova (Kasha Saltsova)

The winner of two NePops awards for the best female rock vocal, Alexandra Koltsova has long become an iconic character in Ukrainian pop rock - first with her band Krikhitka Tsakhes, and then, after the death of the band’s guitarist Mikhail Gichan, with the project Krikhitka.

Another evidence of how much the public fell in love with the bewitching voice of the permanent frontwoman and the same soulful lyrics of Krikhitka, in 2010, there was an all-Ukrainian tour in support of the album Recipe (the debut record of the renewed group), which toured 15 of the largest cities in the country.

Although, by Koltsova’s own admission, she cannot be “just a musician.” “You can’t sit on the edge of your seat in your own country,” says the singer, whose career began in journalism. Leader Krichitki, by the way, who was born in Russia, quietly takes on dozens of good deeds in her native Ukraine, from the Eco-Torba environmental initiative, participation in events to combat AIDS and organizing charity concerts to help children with cancer, to supplying equipment to fighters to the ATO zone and the struggle for lustration of power.

“If I were a man and didn’t make music, then the SBU would have a file on me as an extremist,” Koltsova sneers.

Roman Kofman

B British newspaper The Telegraph named him one of the greatest conductors of our time, and the German Sueddeutsche Zeitung ranked him on a par with Evgeny Mravinsky, one of the twenty best conductors of all time according to BBC Music Magazine.

Roman Kofman is worthy of these flattering words. He is the first and only Ukrainian to direct the Western European Opera House: in 2003-2008, Kofman was artistic director of the Bonn Opera and the Bonn Symphony Orchestra. Beethoven. With him, the conductor received the prestigious international Echo Klassik award for his recording of an oratorio by Franz Liszt Christ. In total, during his career, Kofman managed to work with 80 foreign orchestras.

And to domestic listeners he is known as the permanent head of the Kyiv chamber orchestra National Philharmonic, whose chief conductor has worked since 1990.

During this time, Kofman, who tirelessly updated the orchestra's repertoire, discovered for Ukrainians the music of the best compatriots and contemporaries (including Valentin Silvestrov, Miroslav Skorik, Evgeniy Stankovych), and little-known works of Western classics. Thus, in 2009-2010, he became the first conductor in the world, under whose leadership the orchestra performed all of Mozart’s symphonies in one concert season.

Natalia Lebedeva

Jazz music is an exchange of living energy, Natalya Lebedeva, who is called the best jazz pianist in Ukraine, is convinced. “You see how a person improvises before your eyes, creates a plot, tells a story,” Lebedeva says about jazz. “The public should observe this process. Jazz music exists for its sake.”

Kiev resident Lebedeva is not only a pianist, but a real one-man orchestra - a jazz composer, arranger, teacher and band leader all rolled into one. Jazz band Lebedeva Trio, which, besides her, at different times included Igor Zakus, Konstantin Ionenko (both bass guitar) and Alexey Fantaev (drums), has published three full-length albums since the mid-2000s and has been performing successfully both in Ukraine and abroad . Thus, in 2008-2010, the trio gave concerts in Poland as part of the Slavic Jazz Festival with a program based on the music of Frederic Chopin, as well as in Slovakia.

Considering that the Ukrainian jazz music is just going through the stage of its formation, Lebedeva is doing everything to support this process. She is a participant in many joint projects with aspiring jazz musicians, as well as the organizer of children's jazz festivals O'Keshkin Jazz and Atlant-M

Oleg Mikhailyuta (Bassoon)

It's hard to believe, but in June 2014, the Ukrainian hip-hop group TNMK celebrated its 25th anniversary - the team dates back to 1989.

Growing up with the country, Tanks remain one of the brightest, sincere and uncompromising Ukrainian groups - for which they have been loved by the public all these years. Wherein TNMK They are constantly expanding both the geography and the scale of their activity.

So, in 2012, the group toured more than ten festivals in Ukraine, Poland, Russia and Germany, and in 2013 they realized a long-time dream - they played a series of concerts in Ukrainian cities Symphonic hip-hop together with the Youth Symphony orchestraSlobozhansky. The initiator of the tour was Mikhailiuta, who from time to time takes on the role of both sound producer and video director TNMK.

And although Oleg Mikhailyuta (Fagot), a graduate of the Kharkov Conservatory, joined the musicians only in 1994, along with the founder of TNMK Alexander Sidorenko (Fozzy), he became one of the key figures not only for the group, but for all Ukrainian music of the era of independence.

Like Fozzie, Bassoon accomplishes a lot in addition to his musical activities. In recent years, he has repeatedly tried himself as a host and participant in various television shows, and with his popularity he helped the Ukrainian-language film dubbing industry to get on its feet. For example, the blockbuster hero spoke in the voice of Mikhailiuta Pirates of the Caribbean Jack Sparrow.

Lyudmila Monastyrskaya

In honor of her great predecessor, she is called the new Solomiya Krushelnitskaya and also the best Aida of our days. The owner of a unique dramatic soprano Lyudmila Monastyrskaya is, without a doubt, one of the world's strongest opera singers modernity.

Since 2010, she has conquered the best foreign stages: the Ukrainian was invited to perform leading roles by the New York Metropolitan Opera, Milan's La Scala, Berlin German opera, London Covent Garden. Moreover, in each of these theaters, Monastyrskaya made a splash, collecting enthusiastic responses from the press, colleagues and spectators. Although the parts she performs are leading roles in operas Attila, Nabucco, Longing, Masquerade Ball, Aida, Macbeth, Rural Honor- among the most difficult and responsible for opera singers.

Among Monastyrskaya’s partners are world stars such as the Spaniard Placido Domingo and the Italian Leo Nucci. And the schedule of foreign performances of the Ukrainian, as befits an opera diva, is planned long in advance.

However, she does not miss the opportunity to perform in Ukraine - at the National Opera. In one of the interviews, when asked which country Western listeners consider her to represent, the singer replied: “[They are] perceived only as a Ukrainian [singer]. And this gives me incentive and inspiration. That’s how I was raised.”

Victoria Polevaya

Admirers of contemporary music are listening to the works of Ukrainian Victoria Poleva classical music in the best halls - from the USA and Chile in the west to Korea and Singapore in the east. It is appreciated by critics and included in their repertoires by leading instrumental and choirs peace. In 2013, the works of the gifted Kiev resident were performed for the first time by the cult American ensemble Kronos Quartet.

Polevaya, repeatedly awarded by Ukrainian and international awards, writes music in choral, chamber-instrumental and symphonic genres. IN early years The aesthetics closest to her was the avant-garde. Today, critics rank it among the popular Western style of sacred minimalism, when deep spiritual themes are revealed through the repetition of simple musical phrases.

Such a creative transformation was quite natural for Polevaya. After all, in her own words, what is most important for a composer is not novelty as such, but simplicity and truthfulness of expression.

Alexander Polozhinsky

Poet, citizen and frontman of the Tartak group Alexander Polozhinsky has always been more than just a musician.

In 2005, barely leaving the stage of the Orange Revolution, unofficial anthem which became the bitter composition of Tartak I don't want, the leader of the group, together with other fellow musicians, organized an all-Ukrainian tour Don't be a bad guy.

It's hard to find the best symbol of all musical career Polozhinsky than this action, which soon grew into what still exists today social movement for European values ​​for Ukraine.

In each of Tartak's albums - and over the past ten years the band has released five records - the author of all the group's lyrics, Polozhinsky, finds words that are necessary and close to compatriots with an active civic position.

“If we want to give up something, we must formulate what we will build instead,” the leader of Tartak recently noted, analyzing the consequences of Euromaidan, of which he was an activist.

In his work, Polozhinsky never tires of “building.” This spring the musician presented a solo project Buv'є , during which he will perform his own compositions that are not included in Tartak’s repertoire.

Maryana Sadovskaya

A native of Lvov and a resident of Cologne, Maryana Sadovskaya is often compared to the cult Icelandic singer Björk - the singers are related by the energy of their music and the desire to experiment with genres and styles. Both draw inspiration from folk art, making it attractive and understandable to listeners around the world.

I’m always interested in building bridges - between cultures, between what was and what is,” he formulates his creative task Sadovskaya, whose songs are listened to on all continents.

She began her career as an actress at the Lviv Theater. Lesya Kurbasa Sadovskaya is convinced that everyone can sing - you just need to open your heart to music. There is some truth in this, but only a few receive invitations to collaborate from the cult American ensemble Kronos Quartet. The Lviv resident wrote a piece especially for a joint performance with this group Chernobyl. Harvest, presented last year first in Kyiv and then in the famous Lincoln Center hall in New York.

Maryana Sadovskaya - Piemo, piemo (Ukrainian folk Lemk song)

Sadovskaya travels a lot - in Poland she collaborates with the theater Garzhenitsa, in New York - with the experimental troupe Yara Arts Group, and in Germany she has her own band, Borderland. She goes on ethnographic expeditions to Ireland, Egypt and Cuba. Her interpretations Ukrainian folklore brought the singer the prestigious German RUTH award last year.

Valentin Silvestrov

In the late 1950s, an unprecedented incident occurred at the Kyiv Conservatory. A third-year student at the Kyiv Institute of Civil Engineering, Valentin Silvestrov, was transferred to the main music university in Ukraine without exams. Since then, he has given no reason to doubt that his true calling is to be an architect of music, not of stone.

Today Silvestrov is the most famous modern artist abroad Ukrainian composer. Moreover world fame came to him much earlier than recognition in his native land. While the USSR looked with suspicion at Silvestrov’s avant-garde experiments, from which his unique personal style was later formed, he already became a laureate in the late 60s prestigious award Sergei Koussevitzky (USA) and the international competition of young composers Gaudeamus (Netherlands).

And to this day the name of the Ukrainian, whose heritage includes symphonies, orchestral works, choral and chamber cantatas, as well as instrumental music, are heard on world stages and music festivals. In addition, Silvestrov’s music, known in the West no less than in Ukraine, becomes part of the soundtracks for films of film celebrities - Kira Muratova and Francois Ozon.

Valentin Silvestrov - Symphony No. 5

Meanwhile, the composer lives in Kyiv and admits that writing music in home country he is quite comfortable. Among what Silvestrov has written recently is music dedicated to the events on the Maidan: a new version of the Ukrainian anthem and music for a poem by Taras Shevchenko Caucasus which I read on the Maidan deceased member protests Sergey Nigoyan.

Oleg Skrypka

If Ukraine, like America, had its own Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Oleg Skrypka, without a doubt, would be among the first to be included in it. His main musical creation is the legendary Vopli Vidoplyasova- has been one of the most popular bands in the country for almost 30 years.

Folk melody and powerful energy of live performances made BB in demand both at home and abroad.

However, within the framework of one project, even a successful one, Violin is cramped. Just in the last year, in addition to touring with family BB throughout Ukraine and Europe, he managed to play a number of concerts with his jazz cabaret Fun and travel around North America, performing with violinist Vasily Popadiuk.

Touring does not prevent the artist from holding the festival for 11 years in a row The land is dark. This year, the main ethno-action of the capital changed its location for the first time, moving to a Kiev park Feofaniya, and, according to most guests, it has reached a qualitatively new level.

If we add to this the successful jazz-folk festival last summer Montmarte on Andreevsky Spusk and rich in alternative music Rock Sich, DJ sets at parties in Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine, as well as a recently opened restaurant serving haute Ukrainian cuisine Canapa, then it becomes obvious - towards its main goal - to turn Ukraine into a country of dreams - Violin is moving by leaps and bounds.

Evgeniy Filatov

Evgeniy Filatov is one of the most consistent and innovative Ukrainian musicians, equally popular at home and abroad. His music at the intersection of funk, soul, pop-rock and hip-hop is listened to in Europe and Asia; he gathers halls in Ukraine, Russia and the USA. The main stars of domestic show business are eager to collaborate with him.

This native of Donetsk began as a DJ, performing under the pseudonym Dj Major. After some time, he was noticed by producers, and as a result, collaboration with TNMK, Smash, Ani Lorak, Tina Karol and others. His debut album with his own project The Maneken was released on the French label Somekind Records and was sold in many countries around the world, including Japan, which is difficult for Ukrainian musicians to reach.

Today the musician has five records with songs in English and Russian. At his Major Music Box studio, he works together with the best soul singer of Ukraine Jamala, as well as another performer, Nata Zhizhchenko. Together with the latter, Filatov came up with new project Onuka, where modern music technologies are seamlessly combined with folk instruments.

Andrey Khlyvnyuk

X hip-hop and funk rock group Boombox, whose founder, soloist and lyricist is Andrey Khlyvnyuk, is one of the most success stories in modern Ukrainian music. Over the ten years of its existence, the band has released six full-length albums, half of them in the last four years. And one of the first Boombox records Family Business became gold in Ukraine: more than 100 thousand copies were sold.

Quantity did not affect quality: over the course of a decade, the group became one of the most popular not only in Ukraine, but also in Russia, where they equally successfully collected full concert venues, and in 2009 received the famous Russian Muz-TV award in the category Best hip-hop project.

Khlyvnyuk publicly supported Euromaidan, and in the spring all the group’s performances in the Russian Federation were suddenly canceled. But this fall the group will celebrate its tenth anniversary with a tour of Europe - in November Boombox will be heard in Riga, Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Krakow, Antwerp and Paris.

Khlyvnyuk and his team are no strangers to long-distance tours: in February 2011, the team toured the USA and Canada, and last year, together with Dmitry Shurov (Pianoboy), gave concerts in the Czech Republic and Germany.

Dmitry Shurov

Dmitry Shurov is called the most brilliant and successful pianist in the domestic show business. By the age of 32, he participated in the recording of albums by leading bands in Ukraine and Russia and played several thousand live performances

It all started with a collaboration with a cult rock band Ocean Elzy- in the first half of the 2000s, Shurov co-authored albums Model And Supersymmetry, which became perhaps the most successful in the history of the group. Large-scale tours in support of the records were not complete without the virtuoso musician. Shurov was one of those members of the golden cast Oceans, who took the stage at the NSC Olimpiyskiy this summer during a performance dedicated to the team’s 20th anniversary, which attracted a record audience for Ukraine.

The next steps in the pianist's career were popular indie band Esthetic Education and collaboration with the most famous Russian rock singer Zemfira. The singer, known for her high demands on musicians, invited Shurov to record an album Thank you, which stands out among others due to the special splendor of its arrangements. And then she played live concerts with him for three years.

Today, a native of Vinnitsa Shurov is busy working on solo project Pianoboy. However, according to the apt remark of the musician himself, the roles may be different, but the essence does not change. He still plays the keyboard masterfully and writes songs. It’s just that now his music is accompanied by his own voice.

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It turns out that these famous Russian stars pop singers come from Ukraine.
The Russian stage is rich in talent, but not everyone knows that many of these stars have Ukrainian roots! We decided to find out which famous Russian performers are from Ukraine.

Christmas tree (Elizaveta Ivantsiv)

Elizaveta Ivantsiv (the real name of the singer Yolka), the future star of the Russian pop scene, was born on July 2, 1982 in western Ukraine, in Uzhgorod.

Angelica Varum

Angelika Varum - popular Russian pop singer and songwriter. Varum holds the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation and is a member of the International Union of Pop Artists. Maria Varum (real name of the popular singer) was born in Lvov, Ukraine,

Ani Lorak

Ani Lorak was born in Kitsman, Chernivtsi region, on September 27, 1978. Today Ani Lorak is “the best singer of Russia” according to Russian Prize"MUZ TV. Gravity.” And it’s not surprising, because Lorak appears at almost every event in Russia, gives solo concerts, shines at parties, for which she has already received “Samovars” more than once.

Trio from “VIA Gra”

The girls from the trio are all from Ukraine. Anastasia Kozhevnikova is a native of Yuzhnoukrainsk, Misha Romanova is from Kherson, and Erica Herceg is from the Ukrainian village of Malaya Dobran.

Lolita Milyavskaya

The outrageous pop singer was born in Mukachevo, and first appeared on stage in Odessa. There her famous union with Alexander Tsekalo began.

In Kyiv she still has two people dear to her heart - her mother and daughter.

Natasha Koroleva

The artist spent her childhood in Kyiv, about which she has the warmest memories.

At the age of 16, she decided to go to an audition for Igor Nikolaev, with whom fate connected her for a long time.

Vera Brezhneva

Vera was born in the Dnepropetrovsk region and now lives in Kyiv. But lately she appears more and more often in Russian projects, so she spends a lot of time in Moscow.

Stas Kostyushkin

The Russian singer and poet was born in Odessa, but at the age of one he moved with his parents to what was then Leningrad.

Despite this, he often visited his grandparents and claims that there is something special in Odessa, so he happily returns there again and again.

Anna Sedokova

The pop singer, known to us from the “golden” line-up of the group “VIA Gra”, was born in Kyiv, where her parents moved from Tomsk. Therefore, it is not strange that fate connected Anna’s life so tightly with Russia.

Anastasia Stotskaya

The Russian pop singer and actress was born in Kyiv, but all of her creative life associated mainly with Russia.

Anastasia now often visits Kyiv, visiting relatives and friends.

Joseph Kobzon

The pop singer was born in the Donetsk region, after which his family lived in Dnieper, Kramatorsk and Lvov, and he received his musical education in Odessa.

In the middle of the last century, the singer moved to Moscow, where he lives to this day. By the way, Kobzon has the title of People's Artist of Ukraine.

Taisiya Povaliy

Soviet and Ukrainian singer born in the Kyiv region. In the early 2000s, she became popular outside of Ukraine, and in 2011 she received the Order of Friendship for Development Russian culture and connections between Russia and Ukraine.

Tatiana Ovsienko

It turns out that the Honored Artist of Russia was born in Kyiv and even graduated from the Kiev College of Hotel Management, after which she worked as an administrator.

But fate is an amazing thing: Tatyana Ovsienko became famous as a wonderful Russian singer.

Alexander Serov

National artist Russian Federation born in the village of Kovalevka, Nikolaev region.

He received his musical education in Nikolaev, and later moved to Chernivtsi, where he directed the VIA Cheremosh.

Serov has been living in Moscow for a long time, but with age he remembers his homeland more and more often.

Svetlana Loboda

Although Svetlana was born in Kyiv and initially connected her career with Ukraine, she is now a frequent guest on popular Russian programs and performs in all post-Soviet countries.

Lyudmila Senchina

Senchina was born in the Nikolaev region, but received her musical education in Leningrad.

The People's Artist of Russia believes that her talent as a singer developed in her homeland: “In Ukraine, everyone sings.”

Alina Grosu

Most recently, the Ukrainian singer boasted about how she was working on a Russian project. Now the artist is taking part in the filming of the Russian music program“Property of the Republic”, dedicated to Leps. Filming of the program took place at the Ostankino television center. As Alina herself enthusiastically reported, she is in the company of “brilliant people - songwriters Leps, who supported Putin’s policies.”

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