Ukrainian singer, composer, Honored Artist of Ukraine (2006).
Biography
Family
He was born in a creative family. Mother - Maria Yakivna (from the house of Kasian) - director of the Palace of Culture, a singer, father - Oleksandr Serafimovych, an electrician, played the balalaika, grandfather Fedor - sang in the church choir. Little Valeriy sang in the choir from the first grade.
Teaching
From the 1st to the 8th grade he studied at the school of the village of Pysarivka. After graduation, he entered the Sumy School of Culture (now Sumy Vocational College of Arts and Culture named after D.S. Bortnyanskyi).
Service in the army in the song and dance ensemble of the Kyiv Military District.
After the army, he entered the Sumy Pedagogical Institute (now Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A.S. Makarenko) at the music faculty.
Art
Valery Kozupytsya collaborates creatively with poets Oleksandr Vertil, Mykola Hrytsenko, Viktor Gerasimov, Myroslav Vonyo.
The author of the Hymn of the city of Sumy, approved by the Sumy City Council, the Hymn of the Sumy community, the songs "My Ukraine", "My Sumshchyna", "Sumy melody", "Sumchanka", "Melody for two hearts", "Hello, native village", "Musicians at the wedding" and many others.
Repeated winner of the "Song of the Year", "Song Vernissage", "Royal Towels", "Boromlya" festivals.
Valery Kozupytsa's songs are performed by People's Artists of Ukraine Ivan Popovych, Oksana Bilozir, Vitaly Bilonozhko, Honored Artists of Ukraine Oleksandr Vasylenko, Zhanna Bodnaruk, Pavlo Merezhuk, Honored Artist of Ukraine Mykhailo Poplavsky and others.
Soloist of the Sumy Regional Philharmonic.
About Valery Kozupytsa
In the midst of the noisy crowd of Ukrainian pop music, the voice of the Sumy composer and performer Valery Kozupytsa is pleasantly distinct - in it you can feel what the people call "soul". Valery Kozupytsa's soul is an ancient Sumy gazebo, linden trees towering over his destiny, Sumy charms of a man who came to his native milestones with a guitar under his arm, with a romantic character in everything - from the clumsy walk on the stage of the National Palace "Ukraine" during the finale of the Ukrainian "Song of the Year" - the "Song Vernissage" festival (and he is a multiple laureate of it), to a bright original self-expression in a song context: Kozupytsa's intonation is always individual and exclusive, it has its own unique charm, warmth and sincerity, original melody and identical simplicity . We don't need to get used to his intonations in the song - they have been with us for a long time, prescribed since childhood. By the way, it is no coincidence that one of his best songs is "And we still have to grow" - in our time of spiritual wanderings, the optimism of the composer (and the poet, of course) is impressive - the purity of thoughts, dreams, hopes, discoveries - everything is in this work, which should become a model for neophytes of the new age. In my opinion, this song should be played on the air as a New Age call sign every morning, and then throughout the air time. This is just a small but significant example - V. Kozupytsa's work prompts a constant dynamic of feelings, ups and downs, inspiration - be it "Native Village" or "Favorite Jazz", "Musicians at a Wedding" or simple "Sumchanka".
Congratulations to the poet of the song, an indomitable dreamer and an eternally young lover - Valery Kozupytsa's songs are often benchmarks, but the main thing in them is a vulnerable melody, simplicity of form and expression, refinement of style and taste, a fragrant Ukrainian phenomenon of kindness and love. Good luck to you, maestro, on the fallows and crossroads of centuries; to remain himself, in love with his native Sumy region, with the uniqueness and tenderness of the harsh land. New songs and charms for you!
Viktor Gerasimov, honored artist of Ukraine, president of the creative union "Association of performers of pop art of Ukraine".
