Mykola Vasylyovych Hnatyuk or Mykola Vasyliovych Hnatiuk ( uk, Микола Васильович Гнатюк; born 14 September 1952) is a Soviet,

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singer, popular in the early 1980s. In 1979 he won the Grand Prix at the Dresden Pop Music Festival with

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's ''I Dance With You'' (russian: link=no, Я с тобой танцую). A year later ''Dancing on the Drum'' (russian: link=no, Танец на барабане, penned by

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) brought Hnatyuk the 1980

Sopot Sopot is a seaside resort city in Pomerelia on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, with a population of approximately 40,000. It is located in Pomeranian Voivodeship, and has the status of the county, being the smallest ci ...

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Grand Prix,He scored 36 ponts and shared the first place with four other performers:

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(Finland, ''Where Is the Love''),

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(Czechoslovakia, ''I Want to Share with You''), Jigsaw (UK, ''Sky High'') and Vox (Poland, ''Banana Song'') and made him famous at home. A year later came out ''Bird of Fortune'' (russian: link=no, Птица счастья, by the Pakhmutova- Dobronravov songwriting team), another huge hit for him. In 1988 Hnatyuk was awarded the title The

People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR People's Artist of Ukraine is an honorary and the highest title awarding to outstanding performing artists whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts (theatre, music, dance, circus, cinema, etc.). Establ ...

.Николай Васильевич Гнатюк
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Mykola Hnatyuk
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for his triumph in Sopot (YouTube, in Russian) 1952 births People from Khmelnytskyi Oblast Soviet pop singers Ukrainian pop singers Living people Soviet musicians Recipients of the Order of Francysk Skaryna Recipients of the title of People's Artists of Ukraine Recipients of the title of Merited Artist of Ukraine {{Ukraine-singer-stub