Oleksandr "Sasha" Chemerov (born 4 August 1981; uk, Олександр Валерійович Чемеров, Oleksandr Valeriyovych Chemerov) is the

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rock musician, songwriter, DJ and the frontman of Ukrainian rock band Dymna Sumish and of US rock band The Gitas. Also, he was the author (both music and lyrics) of the songs for the bands Quest Pistols Show (before 2016) and

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, for actor, TV presenter and singer Arthur Pirozhkov and for singer

Valeria Kozlova Valeriya Sergeevna Kozlova (Russian: Валерия Сергеевна Козлова; (born 22 January 1988), better known as Lera Kozlova, is a Russian musician most famous for her work with the pop-rock band Ranetki where she provided the vo ...

, also he was the author of lyrics for songs of English-language album of

Ivan Dorn Ivan Oleksandrovich Dorn ( uk, Іван Олександрович Дорн), nee Ivan Aleksandrovich Eryomin (russian: Иван Александрович Ерёмин; born 17 October 1988) is a Ukrainian singer and actor. He is also active as a ...

. Music videos of songs written by Sasha Chemerov had hundreds of millions of views on YouTube as of May 2020.

Biography

Oleksandr Chemerov was born on August 4, 1981 in Chernihiv a Ukrainian city 148 km (91 mi) north to the capital Kyiv. His father was a

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and local politician and mother was stewardess. He began to play rock music in the age of 14 and in 1998 he founded the band Dymna Sumish which played mainly

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and already in 1999 won the second place on

Chervona Ruta (festival) Chervona Ruta ( uk, Червона рута) is a permanent biennial all-Ukrainian youth festival of contemporary song and popular music,Serhiy Kharynovych. The first republican. What was the 1989 festival "Chervona Ruta" (Перший респу� ...

and in next years won highest places on several another festivals including Woodstock Festival (Poland). The band released three albums: Ty zhyvyi (2005) (Ти живий), V kraini iliuziy (2008) (В країні ілюзій) and Dymna Sumish (2009) (Димна Суміш).

Songwriting

Quest Pistols and Agon

Oleksandr Chemerov was the author of music and lyrics of Ukrainian pop-rock band Quest Pistols Show from its emerging in 2007 to 2015 and then he became the author of songs of successor of this band which name is

. The Chemerov's songs of Quest Pistols had in May 2020 more than 100 mln views on YouTube in total and about 42 mln views for Agon.

Arthur Pirozhkov

In 2010-2018 Oleksandr Chemerov wrote music and lyrics for several songs of very popular (6,6 mln followers of his account in

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) Russian actor, TV presenter and singer Arthur Pirozhkov. The Chemerov's songs of Arthur Pirozhkov had in May 2020 more than 100 mln views in Youtube.

Valeria Kozlova

In 2010 the album "Dai mne znak" of Russian singer

with all 12 Chemerov's songs was released

Ivan Dorn

The lyrics of all songs of the English-language album "OTD" (2017) of Ukrainian singer

was written by Oleksandr Chemerov.

Moving to USA and The Gitas

In 2012 Oleksandr Chemerov moved from Ukraine to the United States. In January 2015 he founded in Los Angeles the English-language rock band "The Gitas" which released EP "Garland" in 2015 and 13-track album "Beverly Kills" in 2017.Meet Sal Ramazzini and Sasha Chemerov of The Gitas in Shadow Hills
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References

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