Oksana Bilosir
Oksana Volodymyrivna Bilosir ( Ukrainian Оксана Володимирівна Білозір , scientific transliteration Oksana Volodymyrivna Bilozir ; born May 30, 1957 in Smyha , Rivne Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian singer and politician. In 2005 she was Minister of Culture of Ukraine in the Yulia Tymoshenko government .
Life
Bilosir studied music at the Lviv Music School until 1976 and at the Lviv Conservatory until 1981; Since 1979 she has performed with her husband Ihor as a singer for the folklore music group Watra , first for the Lviv Philharmonic, then on tour throughout the Soviet Union . The group also appeared in front of Soviet soldiers and invalids in Afghanistan . After separating from her husband, she had been the front woman in the Oxana group since 1994, and in the same year she was appointed to the chair of popular music at the Kiev National University.
In the parliamentary elections in 2002 she was elected to parliament by Viktor Yushchenko as a member of the Nascha Ukrajina - Narodna samooborona block (list position 70). Until then it was non-party; since April 2004 she has been chairwoman of the Social Christian Party of Ukraine. After the inauguration of President Yushchenko in 2005, she was appointed minister of culture in the newly formed government of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. She was re-elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2006 and 2007 parliamentary elections. In 2008 she was involved in the founding of the new party United Center ( Jedynyj Zentr ).
Bilosir is a well-known folk singer from Ukraine; she took part in numerous festivals, first as a singer, later on the jury. She is married for the second time and has a son from each marriage.
Discography (selection)
- Watra-1
- Watra-2
- Mnohaja Lita (published in Canada)
- Ukrainochka
- Nowi i najkrashchi pisni
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bilosir, Oksana |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bilosir, Oksana Volodymyrivna (full name); Bilozir, Oksana Volodymyrivna; Білозір, Оксана Володимирівна (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian singer and politician, Minister of Culture of Ukraine |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Smyha , Rivne Oblast , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union |