Yevhen Halych ( uk, Євген Андрійович Галич, Yevhen Andriyovitch Halych; born 29 April 1984) is a

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rock musician, TV host, DJ and the frontman of Ukrainian rock band

O.Torvald O.Torvald ( uk, Оторвальд) is a Ukrainian rock band. It was formed in 2005 in Poltava, Ukraine. Its debut album O.Torvald was recorded in 2008. O.Torvald took part in festivals such as GBOB, Chervona Ruta (festival), Chervona Ruta, Tavri ...

Biography

Yevhen Halych was born in

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on 29 April 1984, but the first eight years of his life he spent in

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, where his father served in the

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. In 1992 his family, including his brother Andriy, moved to

Poltava Poltava (, ; uk, Полтава ) is a city located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the capital city of the Poltava Oblast (province) and of the surrounding Poltava Raion (district) of the oblast. Poltava is administratively ...

, where he has lived long since. Yevhen started attending musical classes when he was five years old. In 1994 he met Denys Miziuk, who was his neighbour and who would later become the guitarist of

and the best friend of Yevhen Halych. From 1999 to 2005 they played together in the band "Kruty! Pedali", then they started the band O.Torvald. Halych studied in Poltava Institute of Military Telecommunications (now he is a lieutenant of reserve, engineer of telecommunication systems and networks). During his last years in the institute, he worked on the radio station. While working there he felt that the music was the only thing he wanted to do in his life. Soon after graduating from the institute in 2006, he and his band moved to

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, where they rented a house. From 2006 to 2010 they lived in that house all together, and it also acted as their studio. At the beginning they did not receive much money from producing music, so everyone worked for other jobs, leaving not much time for music. In 2008 they recorded their first album "O.Torvald" and the popularity of their band started to increase, especially since 2011. In the past Halych was the only composer and lyrics writer, but now Mykola "DJ Polyarnyk" Rayda, who is a friend and former groupmate of Yevhen, is helping him. Apart from O.Torvald, Yevhen Halych also participates in the band "NUDLY" with rapper Andriy Shostakov. While living in Kyiv, Yevhen worked for a number of television channels, including the music TV-channel M1 (at the invitation of Oleksandr Asaulyuk), entertainment TV-channel NLO TV and, from 2018, a channel playing

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called Megogo Live. In addition to his television work, Yevhen also worked for the radio station "Prosto Radi.O". He stated about his work on the radio: Yevhen Halych has a wife, Valeriya, who gave birth to a daughter in 2013. Yevhen dedicated a song "Нас двоє" ("Two of us") to his wife. She also took part in several videos of O.Torvald. In April 2022, following the

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, Halych joined the

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Participation in Eurovision

On 25 February 2017,

won national selection for Eurovision, so Yevhen Halych represented

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with the song "Time" on

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as a member of O.Torvald.

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