Taras Chubay

Taras Hryhorovych Chubay (Ukrainian: Тарас Григорович Чубай), (born on 21 June 1970 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian musician and poet, singer and composer, leader of the Ukrainian rock band Plach Yeremiyi.

Taras Chubay was born on 21 June 1970 in the city of Lviv in the family Halyna and Hrihoriy Chubay. He is the son of legendary 1970s underground cultural figure and poet Hryts’ko Chubai. As a child, Taras liked the children's poems his father wrote, but he didn't understand much of his poetry. "

In 1976, young Taras went to the Opera and Ballet House for the first time. Together with his father, they attended Czeslaw Neman's concert. Although Taras was only six years old, he remembers the concert very well to this day, even what songs Czeslaw Neman performed. Taras primarily grew up on Czeslaw's music, and thanks to him, Taras later began singing poetry.

Taras studied at the “Lviv Krushelnytski Music School”, where he played in the orchestra. While all the boys played football, Taras rigorously practised the violin. Chubay already knew all about what they were learning in school at that time, which is why he never showed up to classes in Grades 7 and 8."

In 1982 his father died, but his poetry, library, and music library had remained which was all ground on which Taras grew. Thanks to his father, Taras Chubay had a passion for music. He discovered his father's poetry many years after his death, around 5-7 years. Chubay realized that these must be sung so that more people can hear his father's voice in the poems. This is one of the reasons why Taras began making music in the first place. Taras' father - a sample of high poetry, his authority does not allow Taras writing songs with random and meaningless text.

His love for rock music began as a young schoolboy when he played keyboard for his band “Cyclone”, from 1984 to 1986. It was then that Taras met Vsevolod Dyachyshyn – the band's bassist, with whom he plays to this day. They gathered at the club by the village's hospital emergency room and rehearsed. They even managed to perform their very own concert: they printed their tickets themselves and then their friends sell them for rubles. They sold around three or four hundred tickets which at that time represented a substantial sum of money."

In the summer of 1987, Chubay picked up a guitar and in two days, he learned how to play it and in the following two weeks, he had about thirty or forty songs written (some of which he still uses today). Taras played his first song “Koly do hub tvoyikh” for his mother and only after the consent of his mother, Chubay began to perform that song. After another two weeks Taras appeared on stage, and then went on tour.

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