Taras Chubay

[1] His love for rock music began as a young schoolboy when he played keyboard for his band “Cyclone”, from 1984 to 1986.

[1] In the summer of 1987, Chubay picked up a guitar and in two days, he learned how to play it[dubious – discuss] and in the following two weeks, he had about thirty or forty songs written (some of which he still uses today).

[1] Together with other figures of Lviv’s alternative culture scene (Viktor Morozov, Iurii Vynnychuk), Taras formed the cabaret group Ne Zhurys’ (Don’t Worry), which performed for thousands in glasnost-era, and post-Soviet, Ukraine, as well as abroad.

Composing and performing songs to verse written by poets of a new literary generation emerging in post-Soviet Ukraine (such as Viktor Neborak, Yurii Andrukhovych, Kostiantyn Moskalets’ and Ivan Malkovych), Taras played a central role in the advancement of post-Soviet Ukrainian literature in the 1990s.

In 1990, Taras started a band with his bassist Vsevolod Dyachyshyn called "Plach Yeremiyi", which for several years has taken a leading position in the charts Ukrainian music.

[1] In 1999, Chubay moved to Kyiv for Olha, the girl he fell in love with, after meeting her at a Plach Yeremiyi concert in Austria.

They had a difficult time adapting to life in Kyiv with only two hundred dollars in their pocket, yet they managed to find friends to stay with for seven or eight months until they rented their own apartment.

In March 2008 on "New Channel" project launched author Taras - music program "Live Sound".

In 2006, the rock band Plach Yeremiji and its frontman took part in the "Concert for Angels" devoted to the memory of Kyiv students killed during the Battle of Kruty.

Taras has recorded several albums including "Dveri kotri naspravdi ye" (the Doors Which really are) and "Nai bude vse iak ye" (Let all be as Is), which introduced the hits Vona (She), Hryfon (the Griffin) and Litaiucha Holova (Flying Head) to fans of Ukrainian music.