Eduard Drach

Eduard Valeriiovych Drach[a] (Ukrainian: Едуард Валерійович Драч, born 1965), is a composer, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.

He is an active member of the Kyiv Kobzar Guild.

The author of numerous songs in a variety of styles, Drach is noted in particular for his original psalms in the Ukrainian historical folk style.

[1][2][3][4][5] Drach was born in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (present-day Ukraine) and was educated as a physician[6] and still works as a neurologist, his career in music notwithstanding.

[7] Several of his songs have been adapted for lute or torban by Roman Turovsky.