Yevhen Oleksandrovych Adamtsevych was born in the village of Solonytsia on 1 January 1904, not far from the town of Lubny, in what is now Ukraine's Poltava Oblast.

His mother was Maria Mykhailivna (née Bilan), the middle class daughter of a tailor whose five children were all educated at home.

[4] Three weeks later, he was hospitalized with acute pain caused by a stone in his gall bladder), but died during the early hours of 20 November whilst on the operating table.

[2] Adamtsevych acted as a bearer of the national Ukrainian traditions of singing and playing the bandura, which he learned his repertoire directly through oral transmission.

A characteristic feature of Adamtsevych's singing style was his ability to highlight syllables or words; the range of his voice covered two octaves.

[2] Adamtsevych's repertoire included many historic Ukrainian folk songs, but lacked any authentic dumy (sung epic poems).