Hanna Ivanivna Cheberenchyk (; born 19 January 1977), known mononymously as Anytchka (), is a Ukrainian singer.

Biography

Anytchka was born in the village of Svirzh,

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in a

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family. She graduated from the Lviv School of Culture and Arts (Faculty of Choral Conducting). For several years she sang in the choir "Dream", which operates at the Lviv University of Trade and Economics. Later she entered the Lviv University of Trade and Economics, Faculty of Management, graduating in 2003 with a bachelor's and master's degree in Business Administration. Anytchka began her career on stage in July 1999 at the XVII International Festival "Łemkowska Watra" in

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, Poland. Since the

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, Anytchka has given dozens of charity concerts and raised more than a hundred thousand

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to rehabilitate Ukrainian defenders. Most of the funds came from the

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. The first concert took place in

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, the second in

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, and the third in

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. In 2017, Anytchka took part in the social and artistic project #War Songs. As part of the project, she recorded the song "There will be a time of peace" together with military pilot Serhiy Titarenko.

Personal life

Anytchka lives with her husband and daughter in Sacramento, California.

Awards and recognition

Medal For Military Service to Ukraine The Medal For Military Service to Ukraine () is an award of Ukraine. It was established by the Decree of the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma on October 5, 1996, to honour servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations ...

(2016)

References

{{authority control 1977 births Living people Lemkos People from Lviv Oblast Ukrainian folk singers Ukrainian women folk singers 20th-century Ukrainian women singers 21st-century Ukrainian women singers Ukrainian expatriates in the United States