Last year, Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra took home the grand prize at Eurovision for “Stefania,” just a few months after the Russian invasion that has upended life.
, Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra took home the grand prize at Eurovision for “Stefania,” just a few months after the Russian invasion that has upended life there since. Per NPR, there’s now a “special spotlight” on Ukraine for its entry this year into the international singing competition: the electronic music group Tvorchi (Ukrainian for “creative”), made up of 20-somethings and old college classmates Andrii Hutsuliak, a producer, and singer-songwriter Jimoh Augustus Kehinde, aka Jeffrey Kenny, a Nigerian citizen who arrived in Ukraine in 2013 for his pharmacy studies. The pair have four studio albums under their belt, but since the war back home began, their performances around the EU have mostly been fundraisers for the troops and people of Ukraine.
