Mykola Vasylyovych Hnatyuk (born 14 September 1952) is a Ukrainian and Soviet singer, popular in the early 1980s.
Biography In 1979 he won the Grand Prix at the Dresden Pop Music Festival with David Tukhmanov's I Dance With You (). A year later Dancing on the Drum (, penned by Raimonds Pauls) brought Hnatyuk the 1980 Sopot Intervision Song Contest Grand Prix,He scored 36 ponts and shared the first place with four other performers: Marion Rung (Finland, Where Is the Love), Marika Gombitova (Czechoslovakia, I Want to Share with You), Jigsaw (UK, Sky High) and Vox (Poland, Banana Song) and made him famous at home. A year later came out Bird of Fortune (, by the Pakhmutova-Dobronravov songwriting team), another huge hit for him.Николай Васильевич Гнатюк, biography at zakulisi.ru
In 1988 Hnatyuk was awarded the title The People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.Николай Васильевич Гнатюк, peoples.ru
In 2002 Mykola Hnatyuk received the title "Honorary Citizen of Mogilev" for his great contribution to the development of national cultures of Belarus and Ukraine.
In 2021, Mykola Hnatyuk pleased fans with new songs, which he recorded under the name Anastasiy.
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