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SKRYABIN

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Skryabin is one of the most famous Ukrainian rock bands in Ukraine. Its founder, the legendaryAndriy Kuzmenko, is an outstanding personality, an idol of millionsof Ukrainians. The whole country sings his songs today.

Andriy Kuzmenko has written over 300 songs over theyears of his career. Over 2000 concert performances have been given by the Skryabin band over the 34  years of its existence.

Today, the Skryabin band, to which Kuzma devoted mostof his life, are the people with whom Andriy created music, sharedthe stage and the road over the past 15 years of the band'sexistence.

At the request of a large audience of admirers ofAndriy Kuzmenko's work, at the request of Andriy's family, the bandSkryabin continues its concert activities.

Skryabin is his songs.

Skryabin is his fans.

Skryabin is his musicians.

Skryabin is a family.

The band Skryabin is the only musical group that is the official representative of Andriy Kuzmenko's work and performsunder a license agreement for the use of copyright.

The lineup of the band has not changed since 2015:

Guitarist and band manager - Oleksiy Zvolynsky

Bass guitarist - Konstantin Glitin

Drummer - Vadym Kolisnichenko

Keyboardist Konstantin Sukhonosov also collaborateswith the musicians remotely - he creates his parts in new musicalarrangements of songs that the band uses at their performances.

During the existence of the Skryabin band after thedeath of Andriy Kuzmenko, the musicians invited their stage colleagues to participate in their concerts. These were: Polozhynsky,Taras Topolya, Arsen Merzoyan, Zhenya Halych, and others.

These artists supported the band on the Warm Tour. Also, the finalists of the show "The Voice" - Anis Ettayeband Zhenya Tolochny - took part in the concerts. Together with Anis,Oleksiy Zvolynskiy created a new project - the rock band Spain, and Zhenya Tolochny continued to work with the musicians after the WarmTour.

In August 2018, the musicians of the band Skryabin held a big concert dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Andriy Kuzmenko's birth at the Lviv Stadium. The most famous artists ofUkraine sang Andriy's songs together with his musicians. At the sametime, a well-known singer of the 90s, poet and musician Yurko Yurchenko performed with the Skryabin band.

The artists' collaboration proved to be successful,and the audience warmly received the performance. Since then,Yuriy-Yurkesh Yurchenko has joined the performances of the Skryabinband as a member of the Skryabin & Yurcash collaboration.

On 02.02.2020, on the fifth anniversary of the deathof Andriy Kuzmenko, the band Skryabin published a song called "Kuzma"on their page. By publishing a new song in their own performance, themusicians honored the memory of Andriy Kuzmenko and simultaneously marked the beginning of a new stage in the band's life.  The stage of creative collaboration with Yuriy Yurchenko. It was he who created the words and music for the memorable song.

05.02.2020 - Presentation of the song "Bitch of a War!"

Five years before this day, on January 24, 2015, Andriy Kuzmenko sent a letter to Iryna Tkach with a demo of this song. This song was the last thing he had time to say,

The band Skryabin continues its work

Hello, we are the band Skryabin!

We, the band's musicians, spent 15 years of our livesplaying, performing, and creating together with the legendary man whofounded the band,

Andriy Kuzmenko.

After the tragic death of Andriy, his family and fans of the band supported us in keeping the band together and continuingto perform the songs of Andriy and the band Skryabin.

The band's vocalist

Since 2015, we have played more than twohundred concerts in all parts of Ukraine and abroad. At differenttimes, different artists joined our performances, and since 2018, acollaboration with Yurko Yurchenko called Skryabin & Yurcash has been formed.

Charity

In these difficult times for our country, we propose to unite a large audience of fans of Andriy Kuzmenko and the Skryabinband for good deeds.

Currently, one of the areas of the band's charity is to help the residents of Andriivka village, Bucha district.

At the time of liberation from the invaders, Andriivka did not have a single house. Currently, 300 houses in the village need to be restored, and 72 houses have been destroyed beyondrepair.

Despite widespread awareness of the village's plight,aid for its residents is still being provided by individualinitiatives of ordinary people. The scale of the destruction and theneed for reconstruction is so great that most charitable initiatives are extinguished at the first inspection.

Currently, about 50 roofs in the village have been restored by volunteers, 14 temporary housing units have been installed, and more help is expected in the form of a dozen temporary houses

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