Mykola Bakay

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Mykola Bakay
Микола Бакай
Birth nameМикола Петрович Бакай
Born(1931-03-02)2 March 1931
Vynohrad [uk], Stanisławów Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic
Died28 July 1998(1998-07-28) (aged 67)
Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Genresfolk, pop
Occupation(s)Singer, composer, poet, author
Years active1976–1998

Mykola Petrovych Bakay (Ukrainian: Микола Петрович Бакай) (2 March 1931 – 28 July 1998) was a Ukrainian singer, composer, poet, author and Soviet dissident.

Biography

Bakay was born in the village of

forcefully settled to work at the logging sites and factories near Omsk. There he studied at the local music school of Vissarion Shebalin and later worked as an actor at the Omsk Theater of Operetta.[1]

Bakay returned from the forced settlement in 1960. He moved to Chernivtsi, where he began singing in the Bukovina ensemble of song and dance. He worked together with many of the performers from the ensemble, but especially with the singer and composer Pavlo Dvorsky. They wrote many songs together, Bakay writing the lyrics and Dvorsky writing the music.[2]

Mykola Bakay was buried in his native village of Vynohrad [uk].

Legacy

The house of culture in Vynohrad has a theme exhibition that is dedicated to the poet-singer Mykola Bakay. Not far from the building and near the Taras Shevchenko monument the first local festival of the Ukrainian song Smerykova khata took place in 2009 on the day of Illia (Sunday). It was dedicated to the memory of Bakay and his works. The festival opened under the sound of trembitas[3] and a dance performed by the National amateur ensemble of song and dance "Prykarpattia" from the village of Otynia.[4]

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