Sviatoslav Vakarchuk / Святослав Вакарчук

In August last year, Sviatoslav Vakarchuk released an album by the name of "Vnochi" ("At Night") that was recorded together with a chamber orchestra and some of Ukraine's most famous musicians. The reason for this high-level, prestigious collaboration was, in the words of Vakarchuk, to "make Ukr...

Sviatoslav Vakarchuk is both lead singer and frontman of Okean El'zy ("Elza's Ocean"), arguably Ukraine's best-known rock group of recent years. The child of an academic family, Vakarchuk received a schooling that was rich in music, but ultimately he went on to follow his father's footsteps and...