The Ukrainian stage has always been famous for its extraordinary talents, and the female half, of course, is its adornment. Owners of beautiful clear voices, dazzling appearance and unique charm - popular singers Ukraine delight their fans. And whether it's an eminent star or a young, aspiring star, everyone has their own unique zest. It doesn't matter in what language they sing, in international English and Russian, or in melodic Ukrainian, their singing caresses the ears of true music lovers. Let's talk about some of them.

Eurovision winners

They brought Ukraine international recognition at the prestigious European song contest. And if last year's winner Jamala is on everyone's lips, then they managed to forget a little about the first winner, Ruslana. But her victory deafeningly declared Ukrainian stage around the world. Ruslana is a singer whose performance was watched by more than one and a half billion viewers. In twenty-five countries, her songs took pride of place. Ruslana is a singer whose tours took place all over the world, for example, she performed at the opening Olympic Games in Pekin. And the external data of the singer did not go unnoticed, recently L "Oreal offered her to become a new "face". In cooperation with the Dj team, Ruslana developed her own unique style of performance and music. Of course, at the Eurovision Song Contest Ukrainian singers occupied other places of honor, which is only worth the second place occupied by Ani Lorak.

Singer-millionaire Kamaliya

Among the singers of Ukraine, an undoubted talent and at the same time the embodiment of a dream is Kamaliya Zakhur, real name Natalya Shmarenkova. Since childhood, her parents noticed musical inclinations in her, and since then her ascent to the Olympus of fame began. At just sixteen years old, she became the winner of the Chervona Ruta, then there were tours to Poland, shooting the first video, winning festivals. Real success came after three victories at the All-Ukrainian "Song Vernissages". Being a beauty, Kamaliya also won beauty contests. No wonder she was noticed by a Pakistani millionaire, in 2003 they got married, they have two children. The singer Kamaliya Zahur also tested herself in the field of an actress - she starred in several films.

Singers of the era

There are also Ukrainian singers who are a sign of an entire era. Generations grew up listening to their songs. Sofia Rotaru is one of them. She received the nickname Bukovinian nightingale for her voice data. Thanks to her talent, Sofia managed to rise from the level of a collective farm performer to all-Union and then international recognition. Rotaru, being an ethnic Moldavian, easily sang in many languages, remaining close and understandable to any audience. Her songs are known and loved all over the world.

Irina Bilyk became an idol in the early nineties and since then has been recognized and loved by all of Ukraine and beyond. Then her songs became a real revolution, a transition from the Soviet style of performance to new trends. Irina's success was truly dizzying, she traveled all over Ukraine several times, conquered Poland and Russia. And today Bilyk is a welcome guest at any prestigious concert. And singing is not the only advantage of Ira: she is also a poet and composer, she writes songs both for herself and for eminent performers.

The group "Via-Gra" is also called a real era, which captivated the listeners with bright songs, beautiful voices and real shows at their performances. Its composition changed several times, but the fame only grew, conquering not only the post-Soviet space, but also world heights.

Young talents

Time does not stand still and the recognized talents are replaced by new ones. Singers of Ukraine sink into the hearts of listeners. More recently, Zlata Ognevich, Alyosha, Marichka Yaremchuk appeared, they delight the audience with fresh voices, colorful clips, new styles. Many came to the stage, so to speak, "from the people." And all-Ukrainian talent shows, such as "Ukraine has talent", "X-factor", the projects "Voice" and "Chance" became steps for such stars. They gave way to the stage for many favorite performers. One of them is Anastasia Petrik and Aida Nikolaychuk.

Nastya Petrik

Nastya is still a very young girl (born in 2002) but has already reached great heights. She's a winner" Junior Eurovision" in Amsterdam and "Children's New Wave" in Artek, and these are only the biggest achievements. And it all started with the show "Ukraine has talent." Then her older sister Victoria was supposed to perform. The song she chose was too difficult for Vika, then the presenter invited little Nastya and the girls sang a duet. The jury liked her performance so much that further in the competition they participated in a pair. From that moment on, the career of a little singer went uphill. Anastasia Petrik became the winner of many competitions and festivals. She sang a duet with eminent singers, she has a rich repertoire. She is predicted a great future, compared with American singer Ella Fitzgerald.

Aida Nikolaychuk

For the beautiful Odessa woman, the X-factor show served as a launching pad. However, she managed to break through to her chance of success only after the second attempt. Taking part in the project "X-factor" online, the girl went to the third season of the show. In the final, it was not an easy fight, because real talents went there, but the audience's sympathy was on the side of Aida, and she became the winner. Now Aida has the opportunity to realize her youthful passion for music. She gives many concerts, collaborates with the record company Sony Music. Her repertoire includes her own songs, there is even a single. Now the singer has decided to compete for the right to perform in Kyiv at Eurovision as a representative from Ukraine. More recently, there was news about the marriage of Aida, she has a son, Maxim.

And that's not all

In fact, there are many more of them: beautiful and sweet, sincere and talented singers of Ukraine. You can write a whole book about everyone, no article can contain everything. And it doesn't matter if they are eminent or just beginning singers of Ukraine, they give us their creativity, promoting Ukrainian music, waiting for recognition and people's love.

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

Anthony Baryshevsky

Pianist, 25 years old

Antony Baryshevsky is one of the youngest members of the "cultural" hundred of NV, which does not prevent the metropolitan virtuoso pianist from being among the most titled.

People started talking about Baryshevsky back in 2000, when the 11-year-old (at that time) musician at the International Piano Competition in memory of Vladimir Horowitz received a special prize in the 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 the 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 piano competition (Luxembourg).

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

Svyatoslav Vakarchuk

For several years now, the adjective cult has stuck to the name of the main Ukrainian rock musician Svyatoslav Vakarchuk. In those days when the success of musicians was determined by the number of records sold, the albums of the Vakarchuk group Ocean Elzy diverged hundreds of thousands of copies and received the status of platinum.

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

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

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

Evgeny Gudz

What for the Balkan peoples is Emir Kusturica with his No Smoking Orchestra, for the Ukrainians it is Yevhen Hudz and his punk rock band Gogol Bordello. The Ukrainian, who moved to the United States in the late 1980s, interested the audience on both sides of the ocean with an explosive mixture of folk, rock, gypsy punk and carnival theatrical performances.

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

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

And two years before it appeared the first non-English-language disc of the group My Gypsy, where Hudz included his version of the Kyiv Dynamo fan anthem and the song Kiev miy. Needless to say, the infrequent tours of the group in Ukraine always cause a stir, because in terms of the level of concert drive, few can be compared with Gudzia's company.

Jamala (Susana Jamaladinova)

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

The best evidence of Jamala's creative self-sufficiency is her two solo albums (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, performs at large concert venues and in front of the sophisticated audience of 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 the singer, who in 2011 was nominated for the MTV Europe Music Awards in the category Best Ukrainian artist, preparing to leave new album where he experiments with electronic music.

Alla Zagaykevich

Among modern Ukrainian composers, Alla Zagaykevich is considered, if not a star, then a bright 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, Zahaikevich is not limited to 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 disc Nord/Ouest in 2011.

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

Kirill Karabits

By his 37 years, Kirill Karabits from Kiev has firmly established himself at the top of the international conductor's Olympus. For more than five years he has directed the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, one of the oldest and most respected in the UK. In his resume - cooperation with leading instrumental groups in America, Europe and Asia.

Great success came to Cyril Karabits, the son of the eminent 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 the serious competition of 60 people for a place, he got the position of assistant conductor of the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

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

However, in the busy tour schedule of the musician there is always a place for the homeland - several times a year he performs in Kyiv together with local musicians. While abroad, the conductor supports Ukraine in ways accessible to a person of culture. For example, last spring he dedicated his concerts with the orchestras of German Essen and 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 a music school from an early age, where he mastered the violin without much desire. It didn’t work out like a violinist from him - Kogan jokes that he could only earn money with his playing for an inexpensive lunch. But he turned out, without exaggeration, the best jazz connoisseur in the country.

Once upon a time, a young resident of Kiev began to collect all available recordings of freedom-loving Western music that was then banned in the country. During the perestroika years, this unique collection made him a sought-after radio host - for several years he hosted 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 McLaughin or American Larry Carlton have already performed here. The concerts of the festival are broadcast by the popular French music channel Mezzo, and the Western press puts it on the list of must-attend events.

Although associated with jazz most of Kogan's conscious life, he still claims that he still does not know enough about this music. The jazz guru is sure: “A person who gets into some topic deeply understands that this is only the beginning. You have to learn 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 Krykhitka Tsakhes, and then, after the death of the band's guitarist Mikhail Gichan, already with the project Krykhitka.

Another evidence of how much the public loved the enchanting voice of the permanent frontwoman and the same heartfelt texts of Krykhitka, in 2010 was the all-Ukrainian tour in support of the Recipe album (the debut album of the renewed group), which traveled to 15 largest cities of the country.

Although, by her own admission, Koltsova, she does not succeed in being "just a musician". "You can't sit on the edge of your chair in your own country," says the singer, whose career began in journalism. Leader krykhitki, 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 AIDS campaigns and organizing charity concerts to help children with cancer, to supplying equipment to fighters into the ATO zone and the struggle for the lustration of power.

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

Roman Kofman

The British newspaper The Telegraph called him one of the greatest conductors of our time, and the German Sueddeutsche Zeitung put him on a par with Yevgeny 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 who led the Western European opera house: in 2003-2008 Kofman was artistic director Bonn Opera and Bonn symphony orchestra them. Beethoven. With him, the conductor received the prestigious international Echo Klassik award for recording the 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 leader of the Kyiv Chamber Orchestra of the National Philharmonic, whose chief conductor has been working since 1990.

During this time, Kofman, tirelessly updating the orchestra's repertoire, opened for Ukrainians the music of the best contemporary compatriots (including Valentin Silvestrov, Miroslav Skorik, Yevgeny Stankovich), and little-known works of Western classics. So, in 2009-2010, he became the first conductor in the world, under whose leadership the orchestra performed all 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,” Lebedeva says about jazz. “The public should watch this process. Jazz music exists for its sake.”

Lebedeva from Kiev is not only a pianist, but a real human orchestra - a jazz composer, arranger, teacher and band leader all rolled into one. jazz band Trio Lebedeva, where, besides her, in different time included Igor Zakus, Konstantin Ionenko (both bass guitar) and Alexei Fantaev (drums), since the mid-2000s he has released three full-length albums and successfully performs both in Ukraine and abroad. So, 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 Ukrainian jazz music is only going through the stage of its formation, Lebedeva does everything to support this process. She is a member of many joint projects with novice 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 has been making history since 1989.

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

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

And although a graduate of the Kharkov Conservatory Oleg Mikhailyuta (Fagot) 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 independence era.

Like Fozzy, Fagot manages a lot, and in addition to his musical activity. In recent years, he has repeatedly tried himself as a host and participant in various TV shows, and with his popularity he helped Ukrainian-language film dubbing to get on its feet. For example, the hero of the blockbuster spoke in the voice of Mikhailyuta 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 time. 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 scenes: the New York Metropolitan Opera, Milan's La Scala, Berlin's German Opera, and London's Covent Garden were invited to perform the leading parts of the Ukrainian. And 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, Tosca, Masquerade Ball, Aida, Macbeth, Country Honor- among the most difficult and responsible for opera singers.

Among Monastyrskaya's partners are world stars of the level of Spaniard Placido Domingo and Italian Leo Nucci. And the schedule of Ukrainian performances abroad, as an opera diva should be, is scheduled for a long time ahead.

However, she does not miss the opportunity to perform in Ukraine - at the National Opera. In one of the interviews, when asked about which country a Western listener considers her to be a representative of, the singer replied: "[They perceive] only as a Ukrainian [singer]. And this gives me incentive and inspiration. I was brought up that way."

Victoria Field

The works of Ukrainian Victoria Poleva are listened to by admirers of modern classical music in the best halls - from the USA and Chile in the west to Korea and Singapore in the east. She is appreciated by critics and includes leading instrumental and choirs peace. In 2013, the compositions of the gifted Kievan were first performed by the cult American ensemble Kronos Quartet.

Polevaya, repeatedly awarded Ukrainian and international prizes, writes music in the choral, chamber-instrumental and symphonic genres. AT early years the aesthetics of the avant-garde was closest to her. Today, critics rank it among the sacred minimalist style popular in the West, 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, for the composer, first of all, it is not novelty as such that is important, 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, whose unofficial anthem was 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 jerk.

It is difficult to find the best symbol of the whole musical career Polozhinsky than this action, which soon grew into the one that still exists today. social movement for European values ​​for Ukraine.

In each of Tartak's albums - and over the past ten years the group has released five records - the author of all the texts of the group, 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 the Euromaidan, of which he was an activist.

In his work, Polozhinsky does not get tired of "building". This spring, the musician presented a solo project Boov’є , within which he will perform his own compositions that were not included in Tartak's repertoire.

Mariana Sadovskaya

A native of Lviv and a resident of Cologne, Maryana Sadovskaya is often compared to the cult Icelandic singer Björk - the singers have in common 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 am always interested in building bridges - between cultures, between what was and what is, "- formulates her creative task Sadovskaya, whose songs are listened to on all continents.

Started her career as an actress of 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 cooperate from the cult American ensemble Kronos Quartet. Especially for a joint performance with this team, a Lviv woman wrote a work Chernobyl. Harvest, presented last year, first in Kyiv, and then in the famous hall of the Lincoln Center in New York.

Maryana Sadovskaya - Piemo, piemo (Ukrainian Folk Lemkivska 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 travels with ethnographic expeditions to Ireland, Egypt and Cuba. Her interpretations of Ukrainian folklore brought the singer the authoritative German RUTH award last year.

Valentin Silvestrov

In the late 1950s, an unprecedented event occurred at the Kyiv Conservatory. A third-year student of the Kyiv Civil Engineering Institute Valentin Silvestrov was transferred to the main music university Ukraine. Since then, he has given no reason to doubt that his true calling is to be an architect of music, not stone.

Today Silvestrov is the most famous contemporary Ukrainian composer. Moreover, world fame came to him much earlier than recognition in his native land. While in the USSR they were suspicious of Silvestrov's avant-garde experiments, which later formed his unique personal style, he already in the late 60s became the winner of the prestigious Sergei Koussevitzky Prize (USA) and the international competition for young composers Gaudeamus (Netherlands).

To this day, the name of a Ukrainian whose legacy includes symphonies, orchestral works, choral and chamber cantatas, as well as instrumental music, sounds 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 the 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 Sylvestrov wrote in recent times, - music dedicated to the events on the Maidan: a new version anthem of Ukraine and music to the poem by Taras Shevchenko Caucasus, which was read on the Maidan by the deceased protester Sergei Nigoyan.

Oleg Skripka

If Ukraine, like America, had its own Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Oleg Skrypka, no doubt, would be included in it among the first. His main musical offspring are the legendary Voplі Vіdoplyasova- 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 if it is successful, Violin is cramped. Only in the last year, in addition to touring with relatives BB in Ukraine and Europe, he managed to play a number of concerts with his jazz cabaret Fun and go around North America, performing with violinist Vasily Popadyuk.

Tours do not prevent the artist from holding the festival for 11 years in a row Land of dreams. This year, the main ethno-action of the capital changed its location for the first time, moving to a Kyiv park Theophania, and, according to the majority of guests, it has reached a qualitatively new level.

If we add to this the jazz-folk festival that successfully thundered last summer Montmart on Andreevsky Descent and rich alternative music Rock Sich, DJ sets at parties in Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine, as well as a recently opened restaurant of high Ukrainian cuisine Canapa, then it becomes obvious - to its main goal- to turn Ukraine into a country of dreams - The violin is moving by leaps and bounds.

Evgeny 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 collects halls in Ukraine, Russia and the USA. The main stars seek to cooperate with him domestic show business.

This native of Donetsk started as a DJ, performing under the pseudonym Dj Major. After some time, he was noticed by the producers, as a result - cooperation with TNMK, Smash, Ani Lorak, Tina Karol and others. His debut album with own project The Maneken was released on the French label Somekind Records and was sold in many countries of 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 my studio Major Music box 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 a new Onuka project, where modern music technology organically combined with folk instruments.

Andrey Khlyvnyuk

The hip-hop and funk-rock band Boombox, whose founder, soloist and lyricist is Andrey Khlyvnyuk, is one of the most successful stories in modern Ukrainian music. Over the ten years of its existence, the band has released six full-fledged albums, and 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 of it were sold.

The quantity did not affect the quality: for a decade, the group became one of the most popular not only in Ukraine, but also in Russia, where they collected full concert venues, and in 2009 received the well-known Russian award Muz-TV in the nomination Best Hip Hop Project.

Khlyvnyuk publicly supported Euromaidan, and in the spring all the group's performances in Russia were suddenly canceled. But this fall the band will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a European tour - 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 band toured the United States 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 brightest and most successful pianist of the domestic show business. By the age of 32, he participated in the recording of albums by the leading bands of 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 without a virtuoso musician. Shurov was one of those members of the golden squad oceans who took to the stage of the NSC Olympiyskiy this summer during the performance dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the team, which gathered a record audience for Ukraine.

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

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

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Both ours and yours

Without Taboo, he continues to write about Ukrainian performers and groups who do not disdain to earn money by performing in the aggressor country - Russia.

We have already published a list of . It included such famous personalities and groups as Ivan Dorn, Loboda, Pur:pur, SunSay (Andrey Zaporozhets), Mushrooms, Max Barskikh and Vera Brezhneva. At what, those who moved to Russia Ani Lorak, Taisiya Povaliy and Django we have taken out of brackets, and "VIA Gru", Konstantin Meladze and Elka ranked among conditionally "Ukrainian" artists who have long settled on the Russian stage.

As we wrote earlier, in the tour schedule Potap and Nastya Kamensky now there are no Russian sites - probably, extensive criticism and. Although, the duet sometimes flashes at Russian combined concerts.

Variety veterans operate according to the same scheme - Sofia Rotaru, Irina Bilyk, Olga Polyakova and Verka Serduchka - they don't tour Russia, but occasionally appear at the anniversaries of their Russian friends, awards and New Year's programs. In addition, the same Andrey Danilko admitted in his interview to reporters that he speaks at closed corporate parties and private parties.

She refused to perform in Moscow with ostentatious reluctance and DJ Anastasia Topolskaya- "beloved person" of the People's Deputy Sergei Leshchenko. The deputy's lover wrote on social networks that the criticism of her Moscow sets made her feel a little Ani Lorak.

Without Tabu, she tried to feel what "being Ani Lorak" means, and, after analyzing open sources, she compiled an additional list of Ukrainian artists who still allow themselves to earn money by performing in an aggressor country.

1. Dmitry MONATIK. You may not know who this is, but among the 30+ category, this young man is at a premium. Ukrainian singer and dancer, participant of the pop show "X-factor" and coach popular program"Children's voice". According to the 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 "circle" the audience in Sochi, and at the beginning of 2017 he will perform in Yekaterinburg, Ufa and Chelyabinsk.

2. Anna Sedakova. The ex-soloist of "VIA Gra", like other former members of the group (Loboda, Vera Brezhneva), is 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 of the show "Voice of the Country", winner of the M1 Music Awards 2016 in the nomination "Breakthrough of the Year". In 2015, the young artist appeared thanks to a remake of the hit of the 90s from the repertoire of Irina Bilyk "And I spit at the chest" and his song "Drunk Sun". Alekseev has already become frequent guest 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 scheduled in Svetlogorsk.

Succeed everywhere like Alekseev

4. Quest Pistols. outrageous Ukrainian group in 2016 she visited at least four Russian cities with concerts, and in March 2017 they planned to “take” Kazan (possibly inspired by the successful performance of Sedakova).

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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 wards to work. In the summer, this duet had a concert in a Moscow club, and recently the guys went for a prize from Russian radio.

They dry the entire male population of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Ordinary Ukrainian girls, with different education, from different parts of our Batkivshchyna, were able to conquer this or that part of the world.

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

Alena Vinnitskaya

A brutal rocker - this is what Alena corresponds to. 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 striking 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 the men fall in love with Ukrainian pop music, and there was a reason for that...

You sit like that, watch the clip " My attempt #5"and then a friend comes in and immediately throws a question at you:" Do you like Russian pop music?"And you explain to a person that this is not just Russian pop music, but the famous Via Gra group, and let him look at the charming performers of the song and immediately notice how your friend's jaw opens and drooling runs. But it’s not only your friends that are important to you, damn it, the song “My Attempt No. 5” is really cool.

Once Alena left the group and Via Gra lost a lot, but Alena started solo career. And when the TV talks about new song Alena Vinnitskaya, you immediately understand that this will not be another Russian darkness and longing like “All about him and about him”, but whatever song from Alena, it will be rhythmic, with elements of rock and chic Ukrainian pop.

Alyosha

Alexey, that's what the singer's parents called Alyosha.Joke!. In fact, the Ukrainian singer was called Elena Kucher, and after marriage Elena Topolya. Became one of the significant figures of Ukrainian pop music due to the fact that she represented Ukraine at the international song contest Eurovision 2010 which took place in Oslo.

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

Christmas tree

Elizaveta Valdemarovna Ivantsiv was born into a family of a jazz music collector and a three-instrument musician. In addition, grandparents sang in the choir. So little Lisa decided to follow in the footsteps of her family (well, not Sopromat to teach her) and decided to devote her life to music.

Gained popularity due 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". Winner of 4 awards musical gramophone and an RMA nominee on MTV. According to the magazine " Glamor"Recognized as" Singer of the Year ", all in the same 2011.

Vera Brezhneva

Vera Viktorovna Galushka was born in the family of a chemical plant worker and a nurse. She graduated from the university with a degree in economics, and got into music by accident 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"made a wish from the audience to sing famous hit“My attempt No. 5” together with the performers, and a couple of months later she was invited to a casting in the same group, to replace Alena Vinnitskaya.

Since that moment, Vera's career has gone up: the sexiest woman of 2007 according to the magazine MAXIM, recurring roles in famous films With popular actors and of course a solo career.

Tina Karol

Real name - Tatyana Grigorievna Lieberman. Graduated from the Faculty of Management and Logistics of the National Aviation Institute. In parallel with her studies, she studied vocals. Fame at the festival New wave” in 2005, where she fought for the championship, but was awarded second place and a prize of $ 50,000. Prize money was spent on debut clip « 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 Sergey Lazarev and the duet Alibi, she was the host of the musical project "Maidan's" on the TV channel "Inter", and on February 6, 2014 won the award " Yuna" in the nomination " best singer of the year»

Nastya Kamensky

Anastasia Alekseevna Kamenskikh was born in Kyiv in the family of the director and vocalist of the National Academic folk choir named after G. Veryovka. The training took place in schools in France and Italy, through a child exchange program. Since childhood, her parents insisted and Nastya was engaged in 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 became a member of one of the best domestic pop duets“ Potap and Nastya.»

In 2009, the world remembered thanks to candid photo shoots in famous magazines Playboy and MAXIM.

Nadezhda Granovskaya

Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Meikher was born in the Khmelnitsky region in the village of Zbruchovka. In childhood, she moved to the Volochisk district center. After school, Nadia entered the Khmelnytsky Pedagogical School at the faculty 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 me to send his photos and resume to his brother, Konstantin Meladze. He's putting together a pop group now and needs the young beautiful girls. Having made a photo session, Nadezhda sent her photos to Konstantin and after a couple of months she was invited to Kyiv, where she was invited to famous band « Via Gra«.

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

Ani Lorak

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

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

Karolina came up with her pseudonym herself in 1995, when a participant Karolina was previously registered at one of the Russian competitions. Ani Lorak- This is the name Carolina on the contrary. It was under this pseudonym that Carolina was presented at the competition for the transfer of " morning Star«.

She took second place at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.

Anna Sedokova

Anna Vladimirovna Sedokova a native of Kyiv. Her parents ran away hometown Tomsk, as their families were against their marriage. Mom's parents lived poorly, and dad's parents were respected professors who were categorically against marriage. Therefore, Anya's mom and dad just ran away from their relatives.

Anya has been an excellent student all her life. She graduated from school with a gold medal, a music school with honors. Then she entered the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts with a degree in Actor and Television Host and graduated with honors. AT student years worked as a model, worked on the music channel O-TV.

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

Mika Newton

Oksana Stefanovna Gritsai was 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, his grandfather taught himself to play the violin and was a welcome guest at holidays and weddings. Oksana herself began to study vocals from childhood. She graduated from music school in piano.

In 2001, she came to Kyiv to enter the pop school. In 2002 she won the festival " Black Sea Games". During the victory, producer Yuri Falyosa drew attention to her, with whom she signed a contract.

It was he who came up with her pseudonym Mika Newton: he borrowed the name "Mick" 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.