Mykola Hnatyuk | |
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Birth name | Mykola Vasylyovych Hnatyuk |
Born | Nemyrivka, Starokostiantyniv Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine, USSR | 14 September 1952
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Years active | 1970–present |
Mykola Vasylyovych Hnatyuk or Mykola Vasyliovych Hnatiuk ( Ukrainian: Микола Васильович Гнатюк; born 14 September 1952) is a Soviet, Ukrainian singer, popular in the early 1980s. [1] [2]
In 1979 he won the Grand Prix at the Dresden Pop Music Festival with David Tukhmanov's I Dance With You (Russian: Я с тобой танцую). A year later Dancing on the Drum (Russian: Танец на барабане, penned by Raimonds Pauls) brought Hnatyuk the 1980 Sopot Intervision Song Contest Grand Prix, [note 1] and made him famous at home. A year later came out Bird of Fortune (Russian: Птица счастья, by the Pakhmutova- Dobronravov songwriting team), another huge hit for him. [3] [4]
In 1988 Hnatyuk was awarded the title The People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. [5]
In 2002 Mykola Hnatyuk received the title "Honorary Citizen of Mogilev" for his great contribution to the development of national cultures of Belarus and Ukraine. [6]
In 2021, Mykola Hnatyuk pleased fans with new songs, which he recorded under the name Anastasiy. [7] [8]