Vasyl Tkach

What is your hometown?

My hometown is Kyiv, Ukraine.

What is your current location?

I live between two countries - Ukraine and Czech Republic. During the pandemic I spend all the time in Kyiv, Ukraine, writing and producing music here.

Who are your favorite composers/producers?

There's a ton of them - S.A.W., Max Martin and Co, Holland–Dozier–Holland, etc. Among the composers that I love and that are not known to the Western audience, there's Soviet film composer of the 80s Alexey Rybnikov. As a pop-producer I cannot listen to pop-music like an average person, without disassembling it in my head into pieces. So when I want to simply listen to music I put on classic rock - Rolling Stones, Journey, Toto, Queen, Thin Lizzy and of course, The Beatles.

What is an interesting fun fact about you?

I started my creative life as an animation artist and switched to making music only after realizing that girls typically love musicians more than animation artists or cartoonists.
I have absolutely no music education and notes and scales started to make sense to me when I already had some major hits in Ukraine and Russia and had produced over 300 TV-commercials.
I have 3 cats and I'm the Crazy Cat Guy. But this is not a fun fact, this is extremely serious!