The national award of Ukrainian music Song of the Year, the author of the idea, general producer, founder and philanthropist of which Mikhail Poplavsky, celebrated its 20th anniversary.
At the University of Culture of Kiev, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Ukrainian Song of the Year national music award, they presented a documentary film and a book about the history of the development and development of the project. This was stated in a statement from the university.
“The national music award of the Ukrainian Song of the Year, the author of the idea, general producer, founder and philanthropist of which is Mikhail Poplavsky, celebrated its 20th anniversary, the Kiev University of Culture presented a documentary film 20 years of the National Music Project Ukrainian Song of the Year and the book Ukrainian Song year, which is a kind of excursion into the history of the formation and development of the legendary project,” said the message.
The authors remind you that the project was created in 2004 as Our Song, when Russian content dominated the information space in Ukraine.
“The creation of something Ukrainian is unfashionable, unprofitable, which led to a catastrophic situation, together with like-minded people, raised this problem in public and announced an ambitious mission – to preserve and develop Ukrainian music and song creativity, discover new talented artists and give them creative prospects for starting a career,” recalls the university.
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Source: Kyiv University of Culture
Our Song award has become a platform for Ukrainian artists – both stage masters and young performers who can present new Ukrainian music. The only requirement is that the song must be in Ukrainian.
“Since then, every year at a gala concert in the Palace of Arts of Ukraine, the best singers, whose songs are most liked by television viewers, are celebrated in different categories: The Soul of Ukrainian Song, The Pride of Ukrainian Song, The Legend of Ukrainian Song, The Hope of Ukrainian Song It is important that awards were also received by songwriters.
The TV project became the Ukrainian song of the year at the beginning of 2012. At the same time, The Song Unites Us project entered the Guinness World Book of Records in the category of the Longest live musical television marathon of a national anthem: it ran for five days continuously from 5.30 am on March 29 to 12.30 on April 2. , 2012 on two TV channels – First National and Era. The marathon was watched in 150 countries.
Guinness Book of Records official judge Vin Sharma presents a certificate of a new world record for Ukrainian song to Mikhail Poplavsky
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Source: Kyiv University of Culture
“We are filled with a sense of great pride for the creative team, for the talented Ukrainians who united for the first time in all the continents of the world state, its traditions, the desire for freedom, love for in their own land, optimism and faith in a great future Through Ukrainian songs we express our national and cultural identity to the whole world.
In 2017, the award ceremony for the winners of the competition took place in Warsaw. The next award ceremony after a pause took place in 2020.
In the year of the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence, the award took place on International Embroidery Day and brought together Ukrainian song legends and young performers on stage.
Source: Kyiv University of Culture
The last time the award celebrated the winners was on February 16, 2022.
“Despite the anxiety before the great war, the hall of the Palace of Ukraine, with more than three and a half thousand seats, was filled to capacity. It is a symbol that the ceremony took place on the Day of Unity, because this is the song that always unites and raises the spirit of the country,” recalled the university adding that the project team began preparing for the Ukrainian Song of the Year – 2024, which will be held in December.
Let’s remember that last year Poplavsky published a documentary film online, which was given to him by students for the 30th anniversary of his rectorship at the University of Culture.
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