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TNMK
TNMK or Tanok na Maidani Kongo ( uk, Танок на майдані Конґо, ; literally "Dance at the Congo Square") - is the most successful Ukrainian hip-hop group. They are known for clever, yet often tongue-in-cheek, lyrics; mixing hip-hop with rock, funk and jazz music and playing real instruments on their albums and live shows, rather than using samples and drum machines. TNMK performed at many festivals as: Sziget Fest, Zakhid, Tavria Games, Chervona Ruta, Faine Misto and Bandershtat. History The group was formed at a labor camp on 14 June 1989 by Oleksandr "Fozzi" Sydorenko and Kostiantyn "Kotia" Zhuikov and was originally called Novye Doma (russian: Новые Дома) after one of the Kharkiv city neighborhoods where members of the band lived. They performed at the camp graduation ceremony, after which it was decided to gather the full band on 1 September 1989 at the school No. 11 where they studied. In September of the same year during subbotnik, the band g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Hip Hop
Ukrainian hip hop is a major part of the Ukrainian music scene. Refers to all genres of hip hop music in the Ukrainian language. The term Ukr-hop is also sometimes used to refer to any hip hop music made by Ukrainians, including instrumental hip hop, as well as rap songs by members of the Ukrainian diaspora. History In Ukraine hip hop began to develop in 1990s. In 1989 started their activities two biggest hip hop groups at that time - TNMK and V.U.Z.V. The pioneers of Ukrainian hip hop were TNMK (Kharkiv), V.U.Z.V (Kyiv), Osnovnyy Pokaznyk ( Luts'k), Tartak (Lviv) and GreenJolly ( Ivano-Frankivs'k). At the end of the 1990s and beginning of the 2000s audience considered Kharkiv and Lviv as the main center of the Ukra.hop subculture. Many groups successfully performed at festivals such as Chervona Ruta and Tavriyski Ihry. At the mid-2000s a lot of underground bands and artists from another cities in Ukraine began to appear and became popular: DaHok (Drohobych), Zахідна ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albina Dzhanabaeva
Albina Borisovna Dzhanabaeva (; born April 9, 1979, in Volgograd, Russia) is a Russian singer, actress, TV-Host. Best known for being a member in the Ukrainian girl group VIA Gra from 2004 to 2013. Biography She completed music school majoring in piano and also in the department of musical theatre at the Gnesynikh Institute. Then, in 1999 she traveled to Korea to take part in ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarves'' where she sang the part of the foreign Snow White in Korean. In 2002, she returned to Russia to join singer Valeriy Meladze as a backing vocalist, where she stayed for two years. In the autumn of 2004, she joined Ukrainian girl group VIA Gra following Valeriy’s recommendation. In 2012 she starred in the film Betrayal. The film was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. VIA Gra had split 1 January 2013 and started her solo career and has enjoyed success in both Russia and Ukraine. Personal life She currently lives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zakhid
Zaxidfest ( uk, Західфест} ; previously known as Zaxid) is an annual international music and art festival held in the middle of August near Lviv, Ukraine. ZAKHID was founded in 2009 as a festival of Ukrainian rock and ethno music. Later it has lost an attachment to some concrete music genre and was expanded by different foreign artists (including Anti-Flag, Caliban, Clawfinger, Ektomorf, Everlast, Ill Niño, Kreator, Oomph!, Zdob şi Zdub and others). Every year organizers conduct online-survey where anybody can propose and vote for artist. In this way the list of participants is formed. Also some artists are invited based on organizers' initiative and their names are hidden until the tickets sales start. The festivals name "Zakhid" means in Ukrainian equivocally ''West'' (or ''Western'', meaning western part of Ukraine) and ''Event''. Location In 2009 and 2010 Zakhid was held in towns of Zvenyhorod and Stare Selo respectively (around 20 km from Lviv). Since 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
