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Verka Serduchka
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Ukrainian artist, entertainer, singer-songwriter, and actor.
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Andriy Mykhailovych Danylo, born on October 2, 1973, in Poltava, is a Ukrainian singer, comedian, presenter, and songwriter. He is best known by his pseudonym Verka Serduchka. Danylo holds citizenship in Ukraine and the former Soviet Union. He began his professional work in 1993 and was educated at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. His musical repertoire spans comedy music, disco, pop rock, and folk-pop, utilizing the piano, voice, synthesizer, and guitar.
Danylo is a tenor who speaks Surzhyk, Russian, and Ukrainian. He participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. His accolades include the People's Artist of Ukraine, Merited Artist of Ukraine, and the Golden Gramophone Award. He is a male individual whose birth name is Андрій Михайлович Данилко.
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Film & TV
Poltava, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Andrii Danylko is a comedian, known for his persona ‘Verka Serduchka’ in wich he performed in the 2007 eurovision song contest with the song Dancing Lasha Tumbai.
Known for
- Episodes: Don't Switch! — Self2024
- Topsy-Turvy New Year — Verka Serduchka2024
- Big Picnic — Verka Serduchka2023
- The Best Weekend — Verka Serduchka2022
- Love and Bloggers — Verka Serdiuchka2022
- The A-Z of Eurovision — Self - Contestant (archive footage)2020
- Flash — self2020
- Just Sex, Nothing Personal2018
- Servant of the People 2 — Verka Serdyuchko2016
- Vidbir: Ukraine's Eurovision National Selection — Self - Judge2016
via TMDB
Key facts
- Also known as
- Vierka Serdiuchka Serduchka
- Born
- Andriy Mykhailovych Danylko ( Андрій Михайлович Данилко ) , ( 1973-10-02 ) 2 October 1973 (age 52) , Poltava , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union , (now Ukraine )
- Genres
- Comedy parody novelty ska folk-pop
- Occupations
- Comedian actor singer
- Instruments
- Vocals, piano
- Years active
- 1998–present
- Label
- mamamusic
- Website
- serduchka .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Andriy
- Named after
- Andrew the Apostle
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ukraine
- Place of birth
- Poltava
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- Surzhyk
- Participant in
- Eurovision Song Contest 2007
- Genre
- folk rock
- Instrument
- guitar
- Official website
- serduchka.com
- Image
- Andriy Danylko 2018 (cropped).jpg
- Voice type
- tenor
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- Commons category
- Andriy Danylko
- date of birth
- 1973-10-02
- Commons gallery
- Verka Serduchka
- birth name
- Андрій Михайлович Данилко
- name in native language
- Андрій Михайлович Данилко
- start of work period
- 1993-00-00
- pseudonym
- Вєрка Сердючка
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- social media followers
- 409000
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Encyclopedic overview
Andriy Mykhailovych Danylko (Ukrainian: Андрій Михайлович Данилко; born 2 October 1973), better known as his drag persona Verka Serduchka (Ukrainian: Вєрка Сердючка, romanized: Vierka Serdiuchka, IPA: [ˈwʲɛrkɐ serˈdʲutʃkɐ]; Russian: Верка Сердючка, romanized: Verka Serdyuchka, IPA: [ˈvʲerkə sʲɪrˈdʲʉtɕkə]), is a Ukrainian comedian, actor, and singer. He represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 as Verka with the song "Dancing Lasha Tumbai", finishing in second place. He has sold over 600,000 records. He has appeared in films, most notably a cameo as Verka in the American comedy film Spy (2015).
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Verka Serduchka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.