Iryna Bilyk

A year later she performed at another music festival Spring Hopes, where she met musicians like Yuri Nikitin, Georgy Uchaykin and Jean Bolotov.

Later the members of the group "Tsey Dosh nadovgo", having come under the management of Iryna Bilyk, established the production agency "Nova".

In the same year, according to the statistics of the American embassy in Ukraine, Iryna Bilyk became the most popular singer in the country, with journalists of "Mystetsky tops rock-95" coming to the same conclusion by a survey.

Bilyk performed for the United States President Bill Clinton in 1995 as the most popular Ukrainian singer of that time.

This time her performances in the Palace “Ukraine” were sold out in 2 days, and "Zolota Zharptytsya" nominated the tour as "Event of the Year" in the field of modern Ukrainian music and mass entertainment.

For the third tour named "Farbg Nevba" in 1998, Bilyk grouped together with singers Linda and Maxim Fadeev and performed in stadiums and sport palaces.

It became the recipient of the "Pochesny Yakh" award in the "Discovery of the Year" nomination at the Polish "Yach Film" festival.

Bilyk started writing songs in Russian in 2004, the first track being "Sneg", which was later included in the album Lubov’.

According to a Ukrainian poet Konstantin Hnatenko the birth of Bilyk's first child motivated her to start performing in Russian, as at that time it was often the only way for artists to secure opportunities, since Ukrainian-language songs were largely disregarded by the industry.

[14] In 2006 Bilyk released an album for the upcoming charity tour Dopomohty tak lehko, which received the same symbolic name.

In addition to lyrical compositions and popular songs, Iryna read her personal emotional poems on stage during perfomrances.

[3] On the Ukrainian independence day on 14 August 2008 then-president Victor Yuschenko honored Iryna Bilyk the title of People's Artist of Ukraine.

[3] In 2010 Bilyk sang in a duet with her longtime friend Olga Gorbacheva, and a music video was also shot with the participation of Jean-Claude Van Damme, which premiered at the "Viva-2010" ceremony.

In summer, the song "Dvi ridni dushi" was released – a Ukrainian duet with Sergey Zverev.

The same year Iryna wrote a duet with Boris Moiseyev for the song "Ne Vazhno" and shot a video with the Azerbaijani photographer Aslan Akhmadov.

In July she visited the "Slavianski Bazaar" contest, where she became a member of the international jury from Ukraine and made her debut in Jūrmala, Latvia.

Iryna also took part in a concert in memory of Kuzma Skryabin, performing their joint hit "Movchaty" with Sviatoslav Vakarchuk.

[21] Since the start of the invasion, Bilyk returned to singing in Ukrainian, translating her biggest hits in Russian to Ukrainian, such as "My budem vmeste" to "My budem razom",[22] "Sneg" to "Snih",[23] "Nas net" to "Nas nema"[24] and "Devochka" as "Divchynka" in duet with Masha Kondratenko.

[30] In 2024 Bilyk recorded a response to Philip Kirkorov, who gave a concert singing her song "Sneg" for the Russian military.

In the poem, Bilyk emphasized that Kirkorov had "lost his decency", "sold his soul to the devil" by mocking Ukraine and expressed hope that God would punish him.

[35] Before the concert in Lviv, her producer at a press conference showed a video message from ATO fighters, who assured that she helped the military, and emphasized that she has not performed in Russia since 2014, but visiting her husband and son, who reside Moscow, is her private right.

Palace "Ukraine" , where Iryna Bilyk gave multiple sold-out concerts
Bilyk performing on the "Zolotoe Pero" ceremony in 2005
Bilyk in 2013
Bilyk in 2022