Ukrainian and American opera singer (baritone). In 2014, he became famous as a "singing trucker" - an author and performer of Ukrainian romances and his own satirical poems to the melodies of Soviet songs. He records his videos while driving a heavy truck and posts them on the Internet.
Biography.
Born in Donetsk, where he lived until the age of 11. Then the family moved to Millerovsky district, Rostov region, Russia, and a year and a half later to Kyiv.
He studied at the Mykola Lysenko Kyiv Secondary Specialized Music Boarding School. In 1991, he graduated from the Kyiv Pedagogical Institute named after M. O. Gorky, Faculty of Music and Pedagogy (music teacher, conductor).
He became a professional artist when he was a student. He began his career in the L. Revutsky Academic Men's Choir of Ukraine, then continued in the National Honored Academic Choir of Ukraine "Dumka", with which he toured Poland and Belgium.
In 1991, Vadym Dubovskyi entered the Kyiv Conservatory (opera vocal, dramatic baritone), graduating in 1996.
Since 2000, he has toured with a professional concert band in the United States (not as a soloist), where he moved to permanently in 2002 and received American citizenship in 2010.
From 2004 to 2007, he worked as a host and sound engineer at Ukrainian radio in Chicago. After the radio station stopped funding him, he became a school bus driver, and since 2011, a heavy trucker.
He is a member of the vocal ensemble of St. Volodymyr and Olga Cathedral in Chicago.
Vadym Dubovskyi is a lover of classical music and has a large collection of classical music.
Creativity.
Vadym Dubovskyi performs the Ukrainian folk song "Moon in the Sky" on the move.
In 2014, after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, he became famous as a "singing trucker" - an author and performer of Ukrainian folk songs and satirical poems on YouTube to the melodies of the Soviet anthem and songs. The hero of many of his poems is Vladimir Putin. Vadym Dubovskyi writes all his lyrics while driving, records them with his smartphone and publishes them on the Internet.
When asked by a Radio Liberty correspondent whether recording a video clip is an improvisation, Vadym Dubovskyi replied:
"Sometimes it takes 40 minutes, sometimes an hour. The work is mostly in my head. I go, I look for rhythms, I select them. First, I have an idea about covering a song. As a rule, I choose a song that has some internal contradictions, at least like the modern Russian anthem, which has a lot of contradictions. If you think about the words that were in the former anthem of the Soviet Union, it's all a complete lie. "The Union is indestructible," which eventually collapsed, "free republics" - we know all about the freedom of these republics. I look for such songs that already contain some kind of internal conflict, contradiction, lie, and try to remake them in a modern way. This all takes a day or two. But I have plenty of time, I drive on good American roads and just weave rhymes. And then, when I have a version of a song that's ready, I spend an hour, rarely more, when I get a good take. "
Vadym Dubovskyi's song "You're a Freak Army!" was viewed over 160 thousand times in the month after its publication, "Do Russians Want War?" - over 230 thousand times, "I'll Tell You, Russia!" - over 370 thousand times. In total, his videos on Youtube have gained over 2.7 million views in three months.
Vadym Dubovskyi donates the money he earns from the views to the Ukrainian army and to help the victims of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone.
During the first two years of the war, the monetization of his YouTube channel amounted to about 2 thousand dollars.
In his songs, Dubovsky hardly ever uses profanity, except for the word "Dick" (a foul nickname for Vladimir Putin) and the term "Lugandonia" (a joke name for the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions).
