Mykola Hnatyuk
Ukrainian singer
Mykola Vasylyovych Hnatyuk (born 14 September 1952) is a Ukrainian and Soviet singer, popular in the early 1980s.
Biography
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, 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.
In 1988 Hnatyuk was awarded the title The People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.
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.
In 2021, Mykola Hnatyuk pleased fans with new songs, which he recorded under the name Anastasiy.
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