Vinnik's "double" told who helped him write the first song (video)

Andriy Kravchenko remembered his mother, who, despite difficult life circumstances, pushed him to play music professionally. The woman dictated her son's first lines of one of his songs. Ukrainian musician Andriy Kravchenko, who has been often compared with Oleg Vinnik lately, told about his parents who survived the Russian occupation and how they helped him reveal himself in his work. He shared this story in an interview with Solomiya Vitvitskaya.

Kravchenko's parents were virtually hostages to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation when they seized part of the Chernihiv region in 2022. They watched the windows daily as the house of military equipment passes by the house. But most of all, the musician was concerned that his relatives rarely came to communication, and he himself could not come to them and worried about their loved ones in the atmosphere. "I, as an eldest son, could not get to my parents, although the soul hurt.

I should have been the first defender for my family, but could not get (there - ed. )," - said Andrei Kravchenko during an interview. However, it is difficult life circumstances that pushed him to seriously engage in a musical career, because earlier Andrew was engaged in entrepreneurial activity. It all started with a mother's call. She asked her son to listen carefully and not interrupt her, because the connection could be broken at any time.

The woman dictated her son's poetic lines dedicated to her grandchildren. "I immediately picked up this song, because I thought, maybe I will not hear anyone, it is necessary to write," the musician added. Andriy Kravchenko - Honored Artist of Variety Art of Ukraine. At one time he graduated from the School of Arts and then the Institute of Culture. He worked in the Song and Dance Ensemble of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine for five years.

In 2020 he entered the rating "Top 100 outstanding men of Kyiv region". We will remind, at the end of February wife, Igor Pid Late told how the invaders wanted to kill her husband. During the occupation of Vorzel, the Pskov paratroopers were equipped in the house of Igor Pid Lad and his wife. The occupiers crushed souvenirs, drank elite alcohol, destroyed a book about the composer himself, and finally "stuffed" the premises of mines and grenades.