Svyatoslav Vakarchuk was born in1975in the western region of Ukraine Zakarpattia Oblas. Today he is best known as the singer of the music group Okean Elzy. But he is also active as a politician and human rights activist. He founded the music band when he was still a student at Lviv University in 1994. But he really became famous with his band after he participated in the TV program "Who wants to be a millionaire?", where he won the first prize and donated all his money to orphanages in Ukraine. Together with his band, he made a lot of protest songs in the sign of the OrangeRevolution in 2004, the Euromaidan in 2013and the Crimean War in 2014. Nowadays he does random concerts and gives talks on the streets or in refugee camps all over Ukraine to bring people together and give them strength through music not to give up and keep striving for a peaceful Ukraine for the future. In addition to his music career, he has also served in the parliament several times, fighting for issues related to freedom of speech. Vakarchuk also plays an active role in social and cultural projects, for example, he is the founder of the charitable foundation "LyudiMaybutnyoho" (People of the Future). Together with the members of the band, he also actively supported preventive campaigns of theInternational Organization for Migration and MTV Europe's "People Are Not For Sale". For his social commitment, he was eventually rewarded with the title of Honorary Ambassador of Culture in Ukraine and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Program.
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