Gogol Bordello is a well-known American musical group of originally Russian descent, whose tracks are still heard on many famous radio stations. This team has more than twenty years of musical experience, the composition of the participants has changed more than once.
Biography
The founder of the musical project Gogol Bordello is a Ukrainian guy named Yevgeny Hudz. While still a child, he was fond of music, early mastered musical instruments. In adolescence, created his first musical composition.
Upon reaching adulthood, Eugene decided to travel, he traveled to many European cities and for many years drew inspiration from famous foreign musicians. At the age of 23, the man set a goal of becoming himself a great music performer.
Hutz gathered his first team in Vermont, a region in the United States. They called themselves The Fags. The first performances did not have any effect on the local public, the youths did not achieve any result. As a result, the founder of the group decided to move to New York and the musicians dispersed.
In the new city, Eugene met people who became part of his new organization. Among them were: accordion player Yuri Lemeshov, violinist Sergey Ryabtsev, guitarist Oren Kaplan and drumming specialist Eliot Ferguson. Also, the newly-minted team took care of dancing, they were helped by the talented American girls Pam Racine and Elizabeth Sun.
At first, the group had a different name, but after the first unsuccessful performances, it was decided to rename it "Gogol Bordello". According to Eugene, this was done in order to irony, to mock the uneducated American audience.
In the future, the fate of the musical group has developed smoothly. Soon, boys and girls managed to get a permanent place in the evening performances in one of the local night clubs.
Over the entire history of the group, the composition has changed more than once. Initially, there were mainly Russian guys, but at the moment the organization includes participants from all over the world, for example: Chinese woman Elizabeth Chi-Wei San, Frenchman Pedro Erazo.
Music career
The main creative direction of "Gogol Bordello" in his music videos and performances was the atmosphere of the theater, gypsy acoustics. Over time, their performance has not changed in any way, despite numerous changes in composition.
The newly-minted group published its first plastic in 1999, and popularity did not take long. The guys became famous musicians, people came to their concerts in nightclubs from all over the world.
In 2001, they went on tour, visited many cities in the United States of America. But all these performances were only under the tag of the first musical collection. Work on the second was quite difficult, only in 2002 did the publication Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony
In the future, they managed to release dozens of tracks that still do not lose their relevance and relevance. On the account of musicians about five released collections of songs. 10 years after the creation of the group, the guys reached their peak of popularity.
