Leonid Vakulchuk (russian: Леонид Вакульчук; be, Леанід Вакульчук; born 6 June 1998), known professionally as CYGO, is a Belarusian rapper and songwriter. He became famous in 2018 with the song "Panda E", which eventually became the most popular song of the whole year on the social network "
VKontakte
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Early life
Vakulchuk was born on 6 June 1998 in
Mogilev
Mogilev (russian: Могилёв, Mogilyov, ; yi, מאָלעוו, Molev, ) or Mahilyow ( be, Магілёў, Mahilioŭ, ) is a city in eastern Belarus, on the Dnieper River, about from the border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and from the bor ...
, Belarus. Since the 5th grade he began to participate in vocal and reader contests, where he won prizes. When he was 10 years old, his parents divorced and he decided to live with his father and moved to
Brest
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Places
*Brest, Belarus
**Brest Region
**Brest Airport
**Brest Fortress
*Brest, Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria
*Břest, Czech Republic
*Brest, France
**Arrondissement of Brest
**Brest Bretagne Airport
** Château de Brest
*Brest, ...
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Career
In the summer of 2018, Cygo presented the single "Panda E", which took the leading places in the well-known charts and went double platinum. The song entered the Apple Music charts (1st place), Boom (1st place), Top YouTube Hits (1st place), Top Radio Hits (5th place), iTunes (9th place), Yandex.Music (14th place). Later the video was shot on the single. The Ukrainian comedy project «Chotkiy Paca» together with the artist and actor Aleksandr Zherebko made a parody of this composition. The
Music video
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-parody «True» immediately after the premiere appeared in the "Trends" section on
YouTube
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His second song was "Thaw now", which he presented in the same year. The next song of the singer was "Sick in the head".
In 2019, Cygo released an album called ''Crazy can't live without her''. The album includes 4 songs: "Crazy can't live without her", "Black Rose", "You are a sin" and "Ааа".
Discography
References
External links
Официальная страница Cygoв социальной сети «
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Belarusian rappers
1998 births
Living people