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 in the country - not as a rating, 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 the winner 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. A talented resident of Kiev performed in concert halls France, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Iceland, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Morocco, Israel, 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 dispersed 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 civil position the musician is identified with his own.

In December 2013 Oceani 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 pop star Madonna, who invited him to star in leading role in 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 London Wembley, and music magazine Rolling stone turned on the band's music at 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 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, is preparing to release a 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, Zagaykevich 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, head of 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 the age of 37, 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 a busy tour schedule For a musician, 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 a person of culture. Eg, 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 music school, where without special desire mastered the violin. 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 records of the freedom-loving Western music. 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.

Despite the fact that most of Kogan's conscious life is connected with jazz, 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, Aleksandra 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 audience loved the enchanting voice of the permanent frontwoman and the same heartfelt texts of Krykhitka, in 2010 was an all-Ukrainian tour in support of the Recipe album (the debut album of the renewed group), which traveled 15 largest cities countries.

Although, by own confession 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 campaigns to combat AIDS and the organization charity concerts to help children with cancer before supplying equipment to soldiers in the ATO zone and fighting 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 Evgeny Mravinsky, one of the twenty best conductors of all time in BBC version music magazine.

Roman Kofman is worthy of these flattering words. He is the first and only Ukrainian who directed 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 the Ukrainian jazz music only passes 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 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 together 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 television 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 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 scenes: the New York Metropolitan Opera, Milan's La Scala, Berlin german opera, London Covent Garden. 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 expected opera diva, scheduled for a long time ahead.

However, she does not miss the opportunity to perform in Ukraine - in National Opera. In one of the interviews, when asked 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. It is appreciated by critics and included in their repertoires by the world's leading instrumental and choir groups. In 2013, the compositions of the gifted Kievite were first performed by the cult American ensemble Kronos Quartet.

Field, repeatedly awarded by Ukrainian and international awards, writes music in choral, chamber-instrumental and symphonic genres. In her early years, the aesthetics of the avant-garde were 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 Polozhynsky than this action, which soon grew into a still existing social movement for European values ​​for Ukraine.

In each of Tartak's albums - and over the past ten years the team 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 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 without exams to the main music university in Ukraine. Since then, he has given no reason to doubt that his true calling is to be an architect of music, not stone.

Today Sylvestrov is the most famous modern Ukrainian composer abroad. Moreover, world fame came to him much earlier than recognition in his native land. While in the USSR they 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 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 Lately, - music, dedicated to events on the Maidan: a new version anthem of Ukraine and music to the poem by Taras Shevchenko Caucasus, which I read on the Maidan deceased member protests Sergey 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 for Last year, in addition to touring with family 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 Kiev 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 recently outdoor restaurant haute 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 of domestic show business seek to cooperate with him.

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 his own 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 his Major Music Box studio, he works together with the best soul singer of Ukraine Jamala, as well as another performer, Nata Zhyzhchenko. Together with the latter, Filatov came up with new project Onuka where modern music technology organically combined with folk instruments.

Andrey Khlyvnyuk

X ip-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 it collected full concert venues with the same success, 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 autumn 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 Thank you, 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 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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The Ukrainian stage has always been famous for extraordinary talents, and female half, undoubtedly, is its decoration. 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 the Ukrainian stage to the whole 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, Ukrainian singers also took other places of honor at the Eurovision Song Contest , which is only worth the second place taken 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 whole era. Generations grew up listening to their songs. Sofia Rotaru is one of them. She was nicknamed the Bukovinian Nightingale for her vocal abilities. Thanks to her talent, Sofia managed to rise from the level of a collective farm performer, to the 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 the 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 the 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 quite 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 the 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 struggle, 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 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.

The New Year is not yet soon, but analysts are already tallying up the first results on the "achievement" of Ukrainian artists. Specialists of the ticket service Karabas.com presented the rating of Ukrainian musical performers. To compile a list of the most successful and best-selling artists, analysts used information on the number of tickets sold for their solo concerts in Ukraine. This is how the rating of TOP-25 most successful musicians of Ukraine in 2016 appeared.

It is reported that this year Ukrainian artists gave more than 1000 concerts in 57 cities of Ukraine. Due to different strategies for promoting artists, representatives of Ukrainian show business pleased their fans in different ways: some took in numbers and coverage due to more performances, others gathered large audiences in stadiums or large concert halls.

3.Tina Karol

Recently, 31-year-old Tina Karol shared with fans. The key to the success of a star is luxurious vocals, beauty, femininity, life wisdom and repertoire. Previously, Tina Karol presented new song"", with which a new stage in the work of the singer began.

4. NOT ANGELS

The other day, NEANGELS introduced a new one. She is predicted the success of the song "Yura, I'm sorry."

On the Russian stage, every second - if not every first! - a performer originally from Ukraine. Moreover, this tradition, established back in the good old Soviet times, is preserved to this day.

Joseph Kobzon

Joseph Kobzon

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

In the 1950s, Joseph Davydovich left for Moscow, where he has lived ever since. But he does not forget his homeland, and she pays him the same: Kobzon has the title of People's Artist of 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, Mykolaiv region. From there, the family moved to Krivoy Rog, where Lucy graduated from high 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 places: "In Ukraine, everyone sings in a row, and cleanly and beautifully, especially in the village."

Alexander Serov

Alexander Serov

Another native of the Nikolaev region is Alexander Serov, his small homeland- the village of Kovalevka. And, according to him, he still loves the village - "heart and soul." Serov received his musical education in Nikolaev, where he led the VIA "Singing cabin boys", and after moving to Chernivtsi - VIA "Cheremosh".

By the standards of show business, success came to Serov quite late, after 30 years, when he broke into Soviet stage with songs by Igor Krutoy. Alexander Nikolaevich, despite the fact that he has long and firmly settled in Moscow, does not forget the Ukrainian language, which he loves to demonstrate at concerts. Nostalgia feels stronger with age, but does not let it clear up: "I try to get away from memories of the past, they suck and can lead to depression."

Lolita Milyavskaya

Lolita Milyavskaya

The singer was born in Mukachevo, graduated from high school in Kyiv, 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 was formed. The cabaret duet "Academy" moved to Moscow in the early 90s, where its soloists eventually made a career - first together, then separately.

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

Natasha Koroleva

Natasha Koroleva

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

She has been on stage since the age of 3: she made her debut with the song "Aurora Cruiser", 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 long years became a wife and muse. Now the singer comes to Kyiv only to visit.

Anastasia Stotskaya

Anastasia Stotskaya

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

Parents wanted their daughter to become a doctor, but she categorically cannot stand the sight of blood, so after her brother, actor Pavel Maikov, she went to RATI. She became famous after the musical "Chicago" and the victory at the "New Wave" competition in Jurmala. It happens quite often in Kyiv - she visits her relatives, last year she took part in the show "Star Plus Star" on the channel "1 + 1".

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 Georgian Batumi. But Ukraine played in his life and in the life of his brother Konstantin far from last role. The Meladze brothers graduated from the Nikolaev Shipbuilding Institute, where they created musical 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 Kiev with his brother Konstantin, who loves this city very much and moves to Russian capital is not going to. Anyway, for now.

Stas Kostyushkin

Stas Kostyushkin

But the largest diaspora on the Russian stage, of course, is Odessa. This city, as one of its natives, the lead singer of the "Tea for Two" group Stas Kostyushkin, assures, supplies not only itself and Ukraine with Russia with talents, but the whole world - America, Israel, Australia. “Probably,” Stas says, “there is something in the Black Sea breeze, and in the very atmosphere of this city, in its air, about which Utyosov once sang: “Here is the air that I breathed in as a child, and plenty 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 every year to their grandparents - to warm themselves, to 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 a solo career.

Larisa Dolina

Larisa Dolina

Despite the fact that in the passport in the column "Place of birth" Larisa Alexandrovna says: "City of Baku", she considers herself a native Odessa citizen, since she moved to this city at the age of three. In Odessa, Dolina graduated from a music school in the cello class, later she sang in variety orchestra"We are from Odessa". The singer received her higher musical education already in Moscow - in music school named after the Gnessins.

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

Vera Brezhneva

Vera Brezhneva

Vera Brezhneva is our last - in terms of time! - present Russian show business. When, at the presentation of the Golden Gramophone, the presenter mistakenly called her from Kiev, Vera corrected him: "I am not from Kiev, but from Makei, which is much cooler nowadays." Graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, majoring in economics.

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

Taisiya Kondratieva