Ruslana Lyschichko

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Ruslana Lyschytschko (2012)

Ruslana Lyschytschko , usually written as Ruslana Lyzhychko or Ruslana Lyzhichko (born  May 24, 1973 in Lviv ) according to the English transcription , is a Ukrainian singer , dancer , producer , composer and activist . She became known throughout Europe by winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Istanbul and brought its 50th anniversary edition in 2005 to the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

biography

Ruslana Lyschytschko was born on May 24, 1973 in Lviv (Lemberg) in what was then the Soviet Union. Her parents are Nina and Stepan Lyschytschko. Her mother nurtured her talent at the age of four. As a child, Ruslana sang in the Orion group , later in the children's ensemble Posmischka (= smile ). She studied orchestral conducting, piano and drums at the Lviv Conservatory. Ruslana is an all-rounder. She writes, composes and produces her own songs, as well as her music videos.

Since December 27, 1995, Ruslana has been married to the producer Olexandr Ksenofontov. Together they have been running the Luxen studio since 1993, which produces film trailers for musicals and radio commercials.

Artistic career

Musical beginnings

Ruslana's musical career began in 1996 with the victory at Slawiansky Bazaar, an international singing competition in Belarusian Vitebsk . In the following years she had considerable success in Ukraine with her first album Moments of Spring ( Myt 'vesny , Мить весни, Ukr) and the song Dawn ( Svitanok , Світанок, Ukr). She produced an elaborate video for this, the first big budget video clip production in Ukraine. In 1999 she took part in the filming of the Christmas musical The Last Christmas of the 1990s ( Ostanne rizdvo 90-x ), which won the Ukrainian Film of the Year award. Ukrainian television named her Personality of the Year 2000 .

2003-2005: Wild Dances Project

The very successful album Wild Dances ( Ukrainian дикі танці / Dyki Tanzi ), which was released in 2003, was the first album ever to go platinum in the Ukraine for 100,000 copies sold; a remarkable achievement in a country with a pronounced black market for musicians. Later, the number of copies sold even increased to 500,000, which means that the album was awarded five platinum awards.

Ruslana rehearsing Wild Dances for the semifinals of the ESC 2004

Ruslana won the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Istanbul with the title Wild Dances, which she wrote herself, with 280 points. She received points from 35 of the 36 participating countries. He was not selected for participation in the Eurovision Song Contest by a public preliminary decision, but by an internal jury of the Ukrainian television station NTU . The song used wooden trumpets ( Trembitas ) and motifs from the folklore of the Hutsul -Volksgruppe from the Carpathian Mountains . On her expeditions to the Carpathian Mountains for her Wild Dances project, Ruslana collected rhythms, dances and costumes of the hill tribes and integrated them into her show. The result was an unusual synthesis of ethnic sounds and modern rock, pop and dance elements. The single Wild Dances achieved gold status in Belgium, Greece, Russia, Sweden, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and the Ukraine.

After her Eurovision victory, NDR shot the documentary Between Crimea and Carpathians - With Ruslana through Ukraine , which was broadcast as part of the series Expeditions into the Animal Kingdom .

In the run-up to the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kiev , Ruslana was represented with an open air charity concert to mark the opening of the event. The proceeds went to a children's hospital in Dnepropetrovsk . In the framework of the finale, she sang Heart on Fire and The Same Star .

Wild Dances could be heard in the computer game Grand Theft Auto IV until 2018, in which Ruslana also acts as the presenter of the radio station Vladivostok FM .

2006-2008: Wild Energy Project

Ruslana in Hamburg at the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008

Ruslana's follow-up project Wild Energy was a total work of art that combined music, videos and literature. In the early summer of 2006, the first two elements of the project appeared: the science fiction book Wild Energy. Lana by the Ukrainian author couple Maryna and Serhiy Diatschenko and the single Dyka Enerhiya (Wild Energy) .

In June 2006 Ruslana toured Germany. As part of the FIFA fan festivals, she performed in Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin, Leipzig and Nuremberg. Another tour of Germany through 14 cities followed in April / May 2007 as part of the Peter Maffay project Encounters - an alliance for children (see charity projects ), in which she sang Wild Energy and Svitanok , the latter in a duet with Peter Maffay.

On March 10, 2007 she intoned the Ukrainian national anthem at the world championship match between Wladimir Klitschko and Ray Austin in Mannheim.

In March 2008, the Ukrainian-language album Amazonka was released in Ukraine and the Czech Republic. The English-language album Wild Energy was released in October 2008 in Germany, numerous other European countries and Canada on Warner Music . American influences, especially R'n'B , are unmistakable on the album, recorded at Hit Factory Studio in Miami . There is a joint production with the American superstars T-Pain and Missy Elliott on the work.

2011–2013: EY-fori-YA / My Boo

The Ukrainian-language album ЕЙ-форі-Я ( EY-fori-YA ), which Ruslana had worked on for four years, was released in Ukraine in April 2012 and was produced in the Ukraine, Sweden and the USA. The first single was released in May 2011: WOW - I'm so Amazing! . The song and the video are to be understood as a parody of people who consider themselves particularly cool. In the video, Ruslana competes against herself in two different outfits. In October 2011, the second single Sha-la-la was released . In the video, Ruslana depicts a gypsy who exudes a zest for life and encourages other people to dance. For the opening of the new football stadium in Lviv on October 29, 2011, Ruslana released the song Давай Грай ( Davaj Graj , Los, spiel ).

Ruslana live in Antwerp, Belgium, 2013

Musically, the album with the three songs released in advance is based on Slavic rhythms despite its predominantly rock-pop character. Ruslana processed old folk dances and liturgies as well as elements of classical pieces by Russian composers such as Glinka , Tchaikovsky , Mussorgsky and Rachmaninov . The album is designed for flash mob-like mass synchronized dances. During her tour through 11 Ukrainian cities called Ogoshow in April / May 2012, the audience was integrated into the show; Ruslana acts as an entertainer. Further concerts followed as part of fan festivals for the UEFA EURO 2012 football championship .

In the video clip for the single released in August 2012 Мій Брат! ( Miy Brat ! , My brother! ) Ruslana directed. In a brightly colored outfit and with hair shaved off the sides of the head, she arranges a fraternization of girls and boys. In front of Ruslana's private house, professional dancers of her stage show and fans dance.

In the video clip of the album's fifth single, Це - Ей-форі-Я ( Tse - Ey-fori-Ya , That's enthusiasm ), Ruslana criticizes the current legal system in Ukraine. At the press conference for the launch of the video and her Не мовчи ( do not be silent ) campaign in December 2012, she was brought in by two masked guards in handcuffs. Directed by video producer Semen Gorov, the video was shot in the Kiev Fortress , a former prison. The clip begins with a young man behind bars playing bandura , a classic Ukrainian instrument. The heroine Ruslana is brought in in torn clothes and brutally beaten by guards. Eventually she manages to free herself and the other prisoners, only to find the outside world in ruins. The video outlines Ukraine as a prison in the hands of a corrupt legal system.

On New Year's Eve 2012, another video was released for a title on the album: Rachmaninov . In the clip shot by video producer Semen Gorov at the Kiev Opera , Ruslana appears as the enfant terrible of a classical ballet lesson.

In July 2013 the album ЕЙ-форі-Я ( EY-fori-YA , euphoria ) was released under the new title Мій Брат! (разом) ( Miy Brat! (razom!) , Mein Bruder! (together!) ) as a new edition in Ukrainian and under the title My Boo! (together!) as a first publication in English. The renaming of the album and the corresponding song had become necessary due to the coincidence of the same name as the Eurovision winning title Euphoria . The Swedish singer Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest with this title in May 2012, one month after the publication of Ruslana's Euphoria .

In August 2013 Ruslana released the single This Is Euphoria digitally worldwide. The song was written and produced by Ruslana and the Swedish musician Stefan Örn , who won the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest as a composer.

2017: It's Magical / Ya lyublyu

After a long creative break caused by the dramatic events in Ukraine, Ruslana presented her new single It's Magical on May 13, 2017 at the Eurovision final in Kiev . The music style is an unusual mixture of ballads, exotic melodies and hard beats. Ruslana acquired the original, ethnic form of song on which the piece is based, on sometimes extreme expeditions in the Ukrainian Carpathians. The song was published in an English ( It's Magical ) and a Ukrainian version ( Я люблю / Ya lublyu / I love).

The video clip production took place in the basalt column quarry in the Ukrainian Rivne region. Director Oles Sanin created a thunderstorm for the recordings. Ruslana appears in chain mail in the clip. The real 10 kg armor reflects Ruslana's inner state. After the events in her country and the extreme expeditions into the mountains, the singer feels like a kind of warrior protecting the most precious thing: love. With the song and video, Ruslana wants to draw attention to the large-scale deforestation in the Carpathian Mountains and is committed to preserving the nature of the Carpathian Mountains, their fauna and the culture of the local peoples.

Political activity

2004: Orange Revolution

Ruslana was one of the symbolic figures of the orange revolution in 2004. After the election fraud in the presidential election, she was one of the first to join the democracy movement in favor of Viktor Yushchenko and announced a hunger strike in protest against the apparently fake second ballot. A specifically Ukrainian pop music played a major role in this upheaval; one historian enthusiastically spoke of a “Ukrainian Woodstock ”. In the parliamentary elections in early 2006 , she was elected member of the Ukrainian parliament for the Nascha Ukrajina - Narodna samooborona party , which also includes the then Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko . In June 2007, she resigned as a member of parliament. She is said to have been disappointed by the unresolved permanent crisis in parliament. During the presidential election campaign in early 2010 , Ruslana actively supported the presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko .

2012: Campaign against arbitrary justice

In December 2012, Ruslana started her new human rights campaign Не мовчи ( Do not be silent ), which is directed against injustice and arbitrariness of the judiciary in Ukraine. In particular, the singer supports the case of Dmytro and Sergiy Pavlichenko, who were sentenced to long prison terms for the murder of a judge. The process took place under obscure circumstances. The verdict was heavily questioned by the Ukrainian public, especially among football fans. With her song Це - Ей-форі-Я ( This is Euphoria ) and the corresponding video, Ruslana takes sides for father and son Pavlichenko, who, in their opinion, have been victims of arbitrary justice, and thus massively criticizes the Ukrainian legal system.

2013/2014: Euromaidan

Ruslana reads an official resolution on the Maidan, November 29, 2013
Ruslana with José Manuel Barroso and Henri Malosse at the EESC plenary meeting in Brussels
First Lady Michelle Obama and US Secretary of State Heather Higginbottom with awardee Ruslana Lyschytschko at the Woman of Courage Award ceremony in Washington DC

Ruslana was a leading figure in the mass protests known as Euromaidan in Ukraine. The main rallies in Kiev, but also in numerous other cities in Ukraine, took place after the government announced on November 22, 2013 that it would cancel at short notice the long- planned signing of an association agreement between Ukraine and the EU. Tens of thousands took to the streets in the Euromaidan movement, named after the main meeting place in Kiev. Ruslana supported the mobilization on Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) from day one. She referred to herself as a volunteer activist and saw her main role as empowering the crowd emotionally. She represented the non-political side of the Maidan movement, which was only concerned with the establishment of European values ​​such as democracy and the rule of law.

Ruslana spent a total of at least 100 days and nights on the Maidan in the winter of 2013/2014, sometimes up to 10 hours at a time. She sang, danced, gave speeches and sang the Ukrainian national anthem every hour on the hour. On the night of November 30, 2013, when the Berkut special unit wanted to evacuate the police station and beat the peacefully sleeping students, Ruslana fled to a nearby monastery with around 100 people, some of whom were injured. On another night in December, when emergency services were advancing, she de-escalated the police from the stage. The Berkut unit eventually withdrew.

Their use has been the subject of a large number of international media. The Daily Beast described her as the “true heroine of the Ukrainian revolution”, the Spiegel headlined “Kiev's Queen of the Night” and the Spanish newspaper El Mundo compared her to Joan of Arc . An American newspaper even saw her as the embodiment of Katniss Everdeen , the heroine from the Hunger Games trilogy. Russian Forbes Magazine named Ruslana in the Top 10 Most Influential Women in 2013 and Business Ukraine named her 'Person of the Year'.

From January 2014, Ruslana shifted her activities to soliciting support for Ukraine from European governments and high-ranking EU and US representatives and calling for sanctions, first against the Yanukovych regime and later against the Russian government and especially President Vladimir Putin .

Her activism has always put her in serious danger. She received several death threats via text messages, her car was tracked and she was not able to enter her home for weeks because it was under surveillance. She even watched snipers aim at her as she stood on the Maidan stage. Ruslana has been honored with numerous international prizes for her commitment. Among other things, she received the International Women of Courage Award from Michelle Obama at the Woman in the World Summit in New York. She received the Distinguished Humanitarian Leadership Award from the Atlantic Council in Washington DC . On April 19, 2015, Ruslana was awarded the Lew Kopelew Prize for Peace and Human Rights. The laudation at the award ceremony in Cologne was given by the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz .

Charity projects

Charity Concert 2005

As a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, Ruslana works against human trafficking . She is also involved in various children's projects, renewable energies , the preservation of Ukrainian castles and the preservation of the cultural heritage of her country. As part of Peter Maffay's project Encounters - An Alliance for Children , she supported the medical care of Chernobyl- damaged children in Ukraine. From April 14th to May 8th 2007 Ruslana was on tour in Germany with Peter Maffay and 13 other artists from all over the world. With her Wild Energy project, she conveyed the message of following the energy of your own heart and avoiding drugs of any kind. It also warned of the consequences of climate change and promoted the use of renewable energy such as wind energy , solar energy and hydropower .

When large parts of western Ukraine were flooded in summer 2008, Ruslana organized and coordinated the Carpathians aid program, which she launched within a few days . Flood. SOS! . Together with other Ukrainian artists and athletes, she raised money and donated considerable sums of money for humanitarian aid on site. In 2009 the German Embassy in Kiev sponsored a human rights project by Ruslana. A video clip was intended to make girls and young women in particular aware of the dangers of forced prostitution.

Awards

  • 1996 - winner of the Slavianskiy Bazar International Culture Festival, Vitebsk, Belarus
  • 1999 - Person of the Year, Best Song of the Year ( Svitanok ) and Best Video of the Year ( Svitanok )
  • 2003 - Platinum for the album Dyki Tanzi ( Wild Dances )
  • 2004 - People's Artist of Ukraine Award
  • 2004 - Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul ( Wild Dances )
  • 2004 - 5 times platinum for the album Dyki Tanzi ( Wild Dances )
  • 2004 - People's Artist and Person of the Year in Ukraine
  • 2004 - World Music Award ( Las Vegas , USA) for the best-selling records in Ukraine
  • 2006 - First place for Wild Dances in the Grand Prix Hitliste , a vote on NDR television
  • 2008 - Second place for Wild Dances in The Greatest Grand Prix Hits of All Time , a vote on NDR television
  • 2009 - Special Award and Best Artist Award at the Asia Song Festival , Seoul, South Korea
  • 2010 - Person of the Year in Ukraine
  • 2013 - Top 10 Most Influential Women of 2013, Forbes magazine Russia
  • 2014 - Woman of Courage Award , State Department, USA
  • 2014 - Distinguished Humanitarian Leadership Award , Atlantic Council, USA
  • 2014 - honorary citizen of Lviv
  • 2015 - Lew Kopelew Prize for her commitment to peace and human rights

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Wild Dances
  BE F 59 11/20/2004 (10 weeks)
Singles
Wild Dances
  DE 40 06/07/2004 (9 weeks)
  AT 43 06/06/2004 (6 weeks)
  CH 24 06/06/2004 (9 weeks)
  UK 47 06/19/2004 (2 weeks)
  BE F 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 05/29/2004 (20 weeks)
Dance With The Wolves
  BE F 19th 10/30/2004 (18 weeks)
The Same Star
  BE F 50 05/28/2005 (2 weeks)

Albums

  • Myt 'Vesny - Dzvinkiy viter (Moments of Spring - Ringing Wind ) (1998)
  • Ostannye rizdvo 90 ( Last Christmas of the 90s ) (2000)
  • Naykrashche ( The Best ) (2001)
  • Dobriy vechir, tobi ... ( Good evening, you ... ) (2002)
  • Dyki Tantsi ( Wild Dances ) (2003)
  • Dyki Tantsi + Bonus (2004)
  • Wild Dances (New Year Edition) (2005)
  • Wild. Club'in (2005)
  • Amazonka (2008)
  • Wild Energy (2008)
  • EY-fori-YA (2012)
  • Miy Brat! (razom!) (2013)
  • My Boo! (together!) (2013)

Singles

  • Dyka Enerhiya (Wild Energy) (2006)
  • Moon of Dreams (feat.T-Pain) (2008)
  • Wow! (2011)
  • Sha-la-la (2011)
  • Davaj Graj (2011)
  • Miy Brat! (2012)
  • Tse Ey-fori-ya (2012)
  • Rachmaninov (2012)
  • This Is Euphoria (2013)
  • It's magical (2017)

Web links

Commons : Ruslana  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  5. ↑ The Brotherhood of Men and the Sister Skinhead Ruslana !!! . September 12, 2012. Archived from the original on December 17, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 2, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruslana.ua
  6. ↑ Eurovision Winner Ruslana Challenges Ukrainian People to Stand Up to Human Rights Abuses . December 5, 2012. Archived from the original on April 21, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 2, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.menmedia.co.uk
  7. ↑ Ukraine behind bars is the post-apocalyptic perspective visualized in Ruslana's new video THIS IS EUPHORIA . December 4, 2012. Archived from the original on December 2, 2013. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 2, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruslana.ua
  8. ↑ Interview Ruslana - My boo! (World Out Games 2013 - Antwerp - Belgium)
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  31. ^ The protest movement of Maidan in Kiev at the EESC , Website of the EESC. Retrieved January 25, 2014. 
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  37. ↑ Encounters - An Alliance for Children ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maffay.de
  38. ↑ A Ukrainian Pop Star's Would-Be Revolution
  39. ↑ Carpathians. Flood. SOS!
  40. ↑ Ruslana in the German Embassy in Kiev ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kiew.diplo.de
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personal data
SURNAME Lyschytschko, Ruslana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лижичко, Руслана (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian singer and activist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union