Ivan Oleksiyovych Matsialko (21 September 1954, Batiatychi village, Lviv region - 28 July 2007, Lviv) was a Ukrainian pop singer. People's Artist of Ukraine. One of the founders and lead singer of the band Sokoly.
Biography.
Ivan was the third son in the Matsialko family. Having inherited his mother's love for song, he studied first at the Kamianka-Buzka Music School (violin class), and then at the Drohobych Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of Music and Pedagogy.
Ivan Matsialko's grave at Lychakiv Cemetery
In the autumn of 1983, he became a soloist of the Carpathian Song and Dance Ensemble "Verkhovyna". In January 1990, he co-founded the musical group Sokoly. The singer's voice was well known not only by his fellow countrymen, but also by the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, the USA, Great Britain, Yugoslavia, Germany, and Poland.
For some time after leaving the Sokoly band, he collaborated with the Svitozary band.
In late 2006, the singer was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. He died on 28 July 2007 in Lviv. He was buried at the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv.
Family.
He met his wife Valentyna Bondar, an actress of the National Drama Theatre named after Maria Zankovetska, on 13 September 1993 in Drohobych (Valentyna is 20 years younger than Ivan). They dated for five years. When he fell ill with Reiter's syndrome, he asked Valentyna to leave him, but when he got better, he promised to get married in Rome and kept his word. When the bride became pregnant, they got married in Ukraine and were married in Italy at the Roman Church of the Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus. On the eve of the wedding, Pope John Paul II blessed the couple. A daughter, Hanna, was born and named after Ivan's mother.
His works include
album "Come to Lviv":
Whose are you, girl, whose (lyrics: V. Hostiuk, music: O. Havrysh)
My glass is for love (lyrics: A. Kanych, music: S. Petrosyan)
When you come (version by Ivan Matsialko; lyrics by V. Kryshchenko, music by O. Osadchyi)
My dawn (lyrics: V. Kryshchenko, music: O. Plyachenko)
Don't believe me, girl (lyrics: I. Lazarevsky, music: O. Zlotnyk)
Tell me a fortune, Gypsy (lyrics: V. Kryshchenko, music: M. Hadenko)
Come to Lviv (lyrics and music: O. Boyko)
One cannot but love you (words and music: B. Kucher)
Why, tell me why (lyrics: M. Bakai, music: L. Dutkovsky)
