Vasyl Zinkevych: 70 years since his birth

“From Smerichka to Svityaz” is a concert dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Vasyl Zinkevych's birth.

The video features songs performed by Zinkevych: “Chervona Ruta,” ‘Music of Spring,’ ‘Good Luck,’ ‘Svitlytsia,’ ‘Music,’ ‘Is It Possible,’ ‘Love of Astaiots,’ ‘Water Flows,’ ‘Summer of Late Dahlias,’ ‘The Violin Plays,’ and ”New Day Over Ukraine.”

Interview: Vasyl Zinkevych (the singer's son), Pavlo Dvorsky, Oksana Bilozir, Anatoliy Hovoradlo, Dmytro Hershenzon, Vasyl Ilashchuk, Ihor Poklad, and Bohdan Zinkevych (the singer's son).

Fragments of clips and concerts were used.

Background: Vasyl Zinkevych was born on May 1, 1945, in the village of Vaskivtsi, Khmelnytskyi region. He is a Ukrainian pop singer, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, Shevchenko Prize winner, and Hero of Ukraine. Many of his songs are included in the Golden Fund of Ukrainian music of the 20th century. He was the first male soloist of the Smerichka vocal group, and later the frontman of the Volyn vocal group Svityaz. In the famous TV musical “Chervona Ruta” he played the Donetsk miner Borys.

Vasyl Zinkevych is also a dancer and designer. Several of his dances were included in the Golden Fund of Ukrainian Art, and his costumes were exhibited at exhibitions in Paris.