Kateryna Yeremenko

Kateryna Yeremenko (born November 29, 1993, Chernivtsi, Ukraine), also known as Dakooka, is a Ukrainian singer, songwriter, and composer, who works in the electronic, trip-hop, drum and bass, indie rock, pop, and experimental genres.

Dakooka has toured in Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany, and participated in music festivals such as Global Gathering and KaZantip.

[3][4] As she recalled in an interview to ACC Media Agency, her grandmother used to sing lullabies in Russian since Yeremenko's early years.

[17] In 2019, the Ukrainian TV channel Novyi Kanal released the series Early Swallows, in which Dakooka's songs were the soundtrack.

[25] In September 2023, Dakooka presented her first Ukrainian-language album Біженка recorded at the Liberal Sound Studio in Berlin.

A new track - Присвячено Паші Лі - was dedicated to the Ukrainian actor and TV presenter who died in the war.

[26] The same year in October, Yeremenko released a new album of electronic music, Schizophrenie, under the name "ktsh".

[27] Yeremenko was criticized by Ukrainian media for her Russian-language songs and performances in Russia after the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014.

[29][30][31] Subsequently, music journalist and editor of "Sluch" magazine Danylo Panimash stated that despite the criticism, Yeremenko continued to perform in Russia.