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O.Torvald
O.Torvald () is a Ukrainian rock band. It was formed in 2005 in Poltava, Ukraine. Its debut album O.Torvald was recorded in 2008. O.Torvald took part in festivals such as GBOB, Chervona Ruta (festival), Chervona Ruta, Tavria games, Prosto Rock (with Linkin Park and Garbage (band), Garbage), Zakhid, Krashche Misto UA (with Evanescence and The Rasmus), Ekolomyja and Global Gathering. They represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Time (O.Torvald song), Time" finishing in 24th place. In 2018, the group moved to Poland. Their activity in cultural life has decreased somewhat since this time, although they have released several songs and video clips. Members * Yevhen Halych – vocals, guitar (2005–present) * Denys Myzyuk – guitar, backing vocals (2005–present) * Eugene Ilyin – bass (2017–present) * Mykola Rayda – piano, DJ (2008–present) Discography Studio albums Extended plays Other albums S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine In The Eurovision Song Contest 2017
Ukraine was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Time" written by Yevhen Halych and Yevhen Kamenchuk. The song was performed by the band O.Torvald. In addition to participating in the contest, the Ukrainian broadcaster National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU) also hosted the Eurovision Song Contest after winning the competition in with the song "1944 (song), 1944" performed by Jamala. NTU organised a national final in collaboration with commercial broadcaster STB (TV channel), STB in order to select the Ukrainian entry for the 2017 contest in Kyiv. The national selection consisted of three semi-finals, held on 4, 11 and 18 February 2017, and a final, held on 25 February 2017; eight entries competed in each semi-final with the top two from each semi-final advancing to the final. In the final, "Time" performed by O.Torvald was selected as the winner following the combination of votes from a three-member jury panel and a public televote. As the host cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevhen Halych
Yevhen Halych (, Yevhen Andriyovitch Halych; born 29 April 1984) is a Ukrainian rock musician, TV host, DJ and the frontman of Ukrainian rock band O.Torvald. Biography Yevhen Halych was born in Bila Tserkva, Kyiv Oblast on 29 April 1984, but the first eight years of his life he spent in Kazakhstan, where his father served in the Soviet Army. In 1992 his family, including his brother Andriy, moved to Poltava, where he has lived long since. Yevhen started attending musical classes when he was five years old. In 1994 he met Denys Miziuk, who was his neighbour and who would later become the guitarist of O.Torvald and the best friend of Yevhen Halych. From 1999 to 2005 they played together in the band "Kruty! Pedali", then they started the band O.Torvald. Halych studied in Poltava Institute of Military Telecommunications (now he is a lieutenant of reserve, engineer of telecommunication systems and networks). During his last years in the institute, he worked on the radio station. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyiv Day And Night
''Kyiv Day and Night'' ( Ukrainian: Київ вдень та вночі, Kyyiv vdenʹ ta vnochi) is a Ukrainian reality television series based on the 2011 German series '' Berlin – Tag & Nacht''. The initial principal cast consisted of Oksana Avram, Bohdan Sheludiak, Karina Havryliuk, Oleksandr Ozolin and Albina Pererva, until the former four actors departed in 2017. The show was rebooted on August 28, 2018, for its fifth season. In 2018, Alina London, Anastasiia Durkot, Maksym Sosnovskyi, Yaroslava Zhytomirska, Semen Tereshchenko, and Polina Kovalevska joined the cast. In addition, Albina Pererva, Oleksandr Voronyi (as Oleksandr Volodymyrovych), Pavlo Serhiienko and Nazar Kukharenko took on the same role as with past seasons. It was filmed in Kyiv and broadcast on Novyi Kanal from March 8, 2016, to January 8, 2019. In ''Kyiv Day and Night'', a group of young friends rent an apartment in Quartero, which is situated in Kyiv's hub. These group tempt to commit unfaithful rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mélovin
Kostiantyn Mykolaiovych Bocharov (, ; born 11 April 1997), better known by his stage name Mélovin (stylised in all caps; , ), is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter. He first came to prominence after winning season six of '' X-Factor Ukraine''. He represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, with the song " Under the Ladder", finishing in seventeenth place, with 130 points. Early life Bocharov was born in Odesa to parents Mykola Bocharov and Valentyna Bocharova. He became interested in music at a young age, and as a child would put on and perform in concerts at his school. He later began attending a music school, but left before graduating. He subsequently enrolled in a theatre school, which he graduated from. Career 2015–2016: ''X-Factor Ukraine'' Bocharov had auditioned for '' X-Factor Ukraine'' three times, but never got onto the televised show. Eventually, he passed his audition for the show's sixth season in 2015. He advanced through the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine In The Eurovision Song Contest
Ukraine has been represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 20 times since making its debut in . The current Ukrainian participating broadcaster in the contest is the Suspilne, Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (UA:PBC/Suspilne), which has selected its entrant with the national competition in recent years. Ukraine has won the contest three times: in with "Wild Dances" by Ruslana, in with "1944 (song), 1944" by Jamala, and in with "Stefania (song), Stefania" by Kalush Orchestra, thus becoming the first country in the 21st century and the first Eastern European country to win the contest three times. The and contests were held in Kyiv, while the contest was held in Liverpool, United Kingdom, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since the introduction of the semi-final round in 2004, Ukraine is one of the only two countries outside of the "Big Five (Eurovision), Big Five" to have qualified for the final of every contest they have competed, and has been placed outside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamala
Susana Alimivna Jamaladinova. (born 27 August 1983), known professionally as Jamala,. is a Ukrainian singer. She represented and won the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with her song "1944 (song), 1944". In 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024 she served as a judge at ''Vidbir'', the Ukrainian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. In November 2023, Russia added Jamala to its wanted list. Early life Susana Dzhamaladinova was born in Osh, Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, Kirghiz SSR, to a Muslims, Muslim Crimean Tatars, Crimean Tatar father and an Armenians, Armenian mother. Her Crimean Tatar ancestors were Deportation of the Crimean Tatars, forcibly resettled from Crimea to the central Asian republic under Joseph Stalin during World War II, although her own relatives fought on the Soviet side. In 1989 her family returned to Crimea. Her maternal ancestors are Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh region. They were Kulak, well-to-do peasants until her great-grandfather's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurovision Song Contest 2017
The Eurovision Song Contest 2017 was the 62nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Kyiv, Ukraine, following the country's victory at the with the song " 1944" by Jamala. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (UA:PBC), the contest was held at the International Exhibition Centre and consisted of two semi-finals on 9 and 11 May, and a final on 13 May 2017. The three live shows were presented by Ukrainian television presenters Oleksandr Skichko, Volodymyr Ostapchuk and Timur Miroshnychenko, being the first contest since the inaugural edition without a female host. Forty-two countries participated in the contest. and returned to the contest after a year's absence, while did not participate on financial grounds. had originally planned to participate, but later withdrew after its representative, Julia Samoylova, was banned from entering Ukraine by virtue of having travelled directly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moon Records Ukraine
Moon Records Ukraine is a Ukrainian record label formed in 1997 and based in Kyiv, Ukraine. The label specializes in producing the music of Ukrainian and Russian musical artists and is currently the largest music publisher in Ukraine. Catalogue The distributor directory of the company has more than five thousand albums. It includes albums and discographies of such performers as: Skryabin, REAL1ST, Dan Balan, Timur Rodriguez, Seryoga, The VYO, AQUA VITA, Arsen Mirzoyan, Tonya Matvienko, Hot Chocolate (in cooperation with Dmytro Klimashenko) based on the producer's DK & MOON production center) Natalia Valevskaya, Green Grey, Stoned Jesus, SINOPTIK, LATEXFAUNA, Lumiere, PATSYKI Z FRANEKA, Numer 482, TARABAROVA, Ivan Dorn, Dasha Suvorova, daKooka, Cape Cod, Pianoboy, Vivienne Mort, O.Torvald, Robots Do not Cry, Kishe, Dmytro Kolyadenko, Serhiy Kuzin, Sonya Sotnik, TIK, , Victor Pavlik, Olya Polyakova, Maria Burmaka Maria Burmaka (; born June 16, 1970, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 (song)
"1944" is a song composed and recorded by the Ukrainian musician Jamala, with it including lyrics by both her and performer Art Antonyan. It in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, and the song won the event with a total of 534 points. In May 2022, the British news publication ''The Independent'' named the song as the twentieth best Eurovision-winning song and opined that its "melancholic" approach "works perfectly". As well, in 2023, ''The Guardian'' ranked the song as the third best Eurovision winner in history. An official music video was released on 21 September 2016. In terms of its lyrics and general production, the song describes the discriminatory persecution of the Crimean Tatars in the context of Joseph Stalin's rule over the Soviet Union. These violent military actions, which resulted in numerous deaths, had personally endangered Jamala's grandparents, which influenced the piece's emotional tone and its other attributes. Jamala summed the release up as a musical "mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock is a Music genre, genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in rock and roll, a style that drew from the black musical genres of blues and rhythm and blues, as well as from country music. Rock also drew strongly from genres such as electric blues and folk music, folk, and incorporated influences from jazz and other styles. Rock is typically centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drum kit, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a Time signature, time signature and using a verse–chorus form; however, the genre has become extremely diverse. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political. Rock was the most p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s with the likes of the grunge subgenre in the United States, and the Britpop and shoegaze subgenres in the United Kingdom and Ireland. During this period, many record labels were looking for "alternatives", as many Arena rock, corporate rock, hard rock, and glam metal acts from the 1980s were beginning to grow stale throughout the music industry. The emergence of Generation X as a Culture, cultural force in the 1990s also contributed greatly to the rise of alternative music. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or arena rock, commercial rock or pop. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
