Svjatoslav Vakarchuk

Having composed a new song, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk gives it to his wife or colleagues in the group to listen to in order to get an opinion from the outside, but the main thing is still his own. So it is with interviews, which, however, he rarely gives.

The musician is ready to answer any questions, knowing full well that people will not hear the answers they want. Svyatoslav is convinced that he has earned the right to say what he thinks.

Svyatoslav Ivanovich Vakarchuk was born in Transcarpathia, in the small border town of Mukachevo on May 14, 1975. At that time, Svyatoslav's father taught theoretical physics, and his mother taught mathematics in high school. Soon the family moved to Lviv, where an active creative biography of the future musician began.

Ivan Aleksandrovich Vakarchuk, Svyatoslav's father, went into science, defended his doctoral dissertation, and was elected rector of Lviv University. After the Orange Revolution, he worked for some time as the Minister of Education of Ukraine. The musician's mother went to work at the Academy of Veterinary Medicine. In addition to Svyatoslav, the youngest son Oleg, now a bank employee, grew up in the family.

During his school years, the future rock musician participated in the activities of the school theater and was fond of basketball. The guy developed his musical abilities by attending the Lviv Music School, where he learned to play the violin and button accordion.

He graduated with honors from the school where Vakarchuk studied English intensively. The son, like his parents, had a penchant for the exact sciences. Therefore, Svyatoslav decided to study physics and economics at Lviv University. Upon graduation, the singer received two diplomas. He soon entered graduate school, choosing the Department of Theoretical Physics. The result was a written dissertation and a Ph.D. But in his youth he had enough strength both to play music and for scientific research.

As a freshman at the Department of Theoretical Physics, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk met with the musicians of the local band "Clan of Silence". Mostly the guys performed in city cafes and palaces of culture. Soon several musicians left the "Clan of Silence" and, led by Vakarchuk, formed a new collective, which was named "Okean Elzy".

October 12, 1994 can be considered the founding day of Okean Elzy. At first, the group, where Vakarchuk became the vocalist, as well as the main composer and songwriter, played mainly pop and rock music. In December 1994, the musicians recorded a demo tape of four songs. In the same year, the debut video clip appeared. Okean Elzy's first performance took place in his hometown, right on the square in front of the opera house.

Since 1996, the group of Svyatoslav Vakarchuk begins to tour actively. The guys, having traveled around the major cities of Ukraine, go to Poland, France and Germany. And in April 1998, Vakarchuk and his team finally moved to Kiev, where in the same year they presented their first album "There, de us are dumb."

In 2000, the collective headed by Vakarchuk took part in the rock festival "Invasion". This was their first visit to Russia. The collective gained wide popularity in the Russian Federation after the release of the film by Alexei Balabanov "Brother-2". Two songs performed by Svyatoslav Vakarchuk - "If you are dumb" and "Kavachai" - became the film's soundtracks. The clips of the Ukrainian collective are becoming popular outside the country, and each concert attracts tens of thousands of fans.

Vakarchuk's group made a real breakthrough to fame and fame in 2001. The released album "Model" is considered by the fans of "Okean Elzy" to be the best in discography. In terms of the number of sales, the records were broken by the fourth album called "Supersimetry", which was released in 2003 and became double platinum. "Gloria" - the fifth album, which appeared in 2005, also goes platinum in the first hours of sales. Released in 100,000 copies, it was instantly sold out.

In 2007, Vakarchuk and Okean Elzy also work productively, without slowing down. The musicians are releasing another album, which is dedicated to the memory of Sergei Tovstoluzhsky, who worked as a sound producer in the group and committed suicide. The album "Mira" is the most fateful of all.

But the next disc, released in 2008, is a solo project by Svyatoslav Vakarchuk. Two lyrical compositions are extremely popular. These are the songs "Taka, yak ti" and "Do not lower your eyes." Already at the beginning of 2010, the group with the participation of the artist delighted the fans with the seventh studio album "Dolce Vita".

In 2011 Svyatoslav Vakarchuk continues his solo career and will soon present a new project "Brussels". For promotion, the singer goes on a concert tour and shoots clips for two compositions - "Airplane" and "Adrenaline".

For the next 2 years again nothing is heard about "Elsa's Ocean", but it becomes known that Vakarchuk in Brussels is working on a solo album "Earth" with the support of the famous producer Ken Nelson. "Earth" comes out at the end of 2013. Admirers of Svyatoslav Vakarchuk's creativity especially note two songs - "Ob_imi" and "Striliai".

The fans of the Okean Elzy group received a real gift in 2014. The musicians got together again and held a big jubilee concert called "Okean Elzy - 20 years together!" It attracted 75 thousand fans.

In 2016, the ninth studio album of 11 tracks was released. The new disc was not based on one direction of music. It features tracks of different genres, but fans believe that the new songs have an emphasis on military themes. Vakarchuk himself said that the disc included romantic compositions based on love lyrics, and several songs with social connotations.

In the same year, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk once again participates in the Voice of the Country project, where he becomes a mentor to one of the teams that competed with the teams of Tina Karol, Potap and Ivan Dorn. As a result of the music show, the microblogging service Twitter and other social networks did not discuss the achievements of the participants and their leaders at all, but the conflict between Svyatoslav Vakarchuk and the popular rap artist Potap.

The remarks of the Ukrainian rapper about the students of the soloist of "Okean Elzy" became the reason for further proceedings. Vakarchuk accused some artists of defending their personal interests, thinking only about money, not putting their souls into the song. Thus, the musician hinted at Potap's trips to Russia, where the rapper gave concerts.

Speaking about Russia, Svyatoslav himself does not allow harsh statements. Dividing people on the basis of statehood is not a European way of thinking.

In one of the seasons of the "Voice" Vakarchuk liked the student of the philological faculty of Lviv University Christina Soloviy. Svyatoslav made a personal production project out of the girl, which is why the aspiring singer was nicknamed the female continuation of Okean Elzy and the protégé of Vakarchuk. Although Christina says that the influence of the "godfather" in music ended in 2017, and this is due to her rebellious nature. The creative tandem managed to record an album and release 2 clips.

As part of a tour of Canada and the United States in 2017, the Okean Elzy rock group performed in New York, where they presented both new songs and long-loved ones.

The musician does not stand aside from political processes. Over the years, the famous Ukrainian performer often participated in political actions, but such actions were more than once negatively perceived by fans who accused the singer of bias and inclination to a specific political position.

Svyatoslav Vakarchuk showed interest in public life back in 1999. Then the singer, along with other candidates, supported the election campaign of President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, who ran for the main office of the country again.

In the 2004 elections, the rock musician dramatically changed his political views, supporting the then opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko. Svyatoslav Vakarchuk was an active participant in the Orange Revolution, performed at concerts in support of Viktor Yushchenko on Independence Square along with Oleg Skripka, Ruslana and other musicians.

Unlimited fame and popularity allow Vakarchuk in 2007 to become a people's deputy of Ukraine on the lists of the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense bloc. This political movement nominated Father Svyatoslav for the post of Minister of Education.

A large number of voters believed in the musician's honesty, because Vakarchuk did not shine in the center of high-profile political scandals, and his desire for change inspired people with hope for the implementation of positive changes that would affect the life of every Ukrainian.

However, the work of a musician in parliament was not remembered by ordinary citizens. In 2008, Svyatoslav announced that he had submitted an application for resignation of the powers of the people's deputy of Ukraine. It was assumed that the famous rock musician became disillusioned with politics and would no longer try to realize his plans in this area, but it happened differently.

In November 2013, mass protests began in Ukraine. Vakarchuk will take an active part in a large-scale event after the use of force against peaceful protesters by representatives of law enforcement agencies. On December 14, 2013, the Okean Elzy group gave a concert in support of the protesters. The singer will speak about the events in Ukraine more than once later, commenting on the situation in the state.

Vakarchuk's opinion about Russia changed dramatically after the Euromaidan. If earlier he visited a neighboring country with concerts, then later he revised his plans, refusing to visit the Russian Federation on tour. Nevertheless, Svyatoslav opposes the introduction of "black lists" for Russian artists who are prohibited from entering Ukraine.

In the heart of the popular Ukrainian rock musician there was and remains the only woman - Lyalya Fonareva, from the first days of the group's move to Kiev - the stylist and art director of Okeana Elzy. The couple lived in a civil marriage for 15 years, and only in 2015 the singer's chosen one officially became a wife. The personal life of Svyatoslav Vakarchuk is a closed topic for the press. The musician answered all the questions only one thing: "I have a family, and I am happy." The artist has no common children with Fonareva. The only child is Diana, Lyali's daughter from her first marriage.

In the same 2015, according to a number of media reports, the singer became a student at Yale University for 4 months under the Yale World Fellow program for training world leaders. Among the graduates of the prestigious educational institution are former US Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Vakarchuk himself at various times lectured at Harvard, Columbia, Stanford and California universities. He was attended by students of Ukrainian universities, the London School of Economics, as well as Oxford, Sorbonne and Cambridge.

Svyatoslav retains an interest in science, followed the publications of Stephen Hawking.

The singer Jamala announced that Vakarchuk started a page on Instagram. But the photos are not available for viewing - the account is closed.

In March 2019, presidential elections are to be held in Ukraine. Since the fall of 2017, the name of the leader of Okean Elzy has appeared on the lists of possible candidates for the country's top post. In the ratings compiled by various agencies and sociological services, Svyatoslav was by all means included in the top five. At the same time, Vakarchuk never publicly announced his political ambitions. However, the release of the new song "Skilki Us" was regarded as the beginning of the election campaign.

The society has developed an ambiguous attitude to the situation. Some considered the singer a “decorative candidate,” whose task is to draw votes from another election participant, hinting at Yulia Tymoshenko. Others believed that from a musician with an army of fans, whose opinion is listened to, they prepare at least the head of the parliamentary faction. When in June 2018 Svyatoslav called on to oppose the authorities and the political system in the country, the public assessed it as entering the election race.

Later, giving lectures to students of a Ukrainian university, Vakarchuk said that he was not interested in the position, but in the changes in Ukraine. At the YES conference, the musician said that politicians have been robbing the country for the last quarter of a century.

The composition "Skilki Us" was performed at the first concert of the group for the Independence Day after almost a year's break, held at the Kiev stadium "Olympic". According to Vakarchuk, it’s premature to talk about a full-fledged studio album, but new songs are already available, and he performed “In the sky to my wife” and “Without you”. The audience also heard "Kolya Tobi Vazhko", "My Little Independence", "Don't Go" and others.

1998 - "There, de us are dumb" 2000 - "Yananebibuv" 2001 - "Model" 2003 - "Supersimetry" 2005 - "Gloria" 2007 - "Mira" 2010 - "Dolce Vita" 2013 - "Earth" 2016 - "Without "

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