Mykola Bakay
{{family name hatnote|Petrovych|Bakay|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Mykola Bakay
| native_name_lang = uk
| native_name = {{nobold|Микола Бакай}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1931|3|2}}
| birth_place = {{Interlanguage link|Vynohrad (Kolomyia Raion)|uk|3=Виноград (Коломийський район)|lt=Vynohrad}}, Stanisławów Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic
| death_date = {{death date and age|1998|7|28|1931|3|2}}
| death_place = Chernivtsi, Ukraine
| other_names =
| occupation = Singer, composer, poet, author
| instrument = Singing
| years_active = 1976–1998
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| past_member_of = Bukovina Ensemble of Song and Dance
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Mykola Petrovych Bakay{{efn|{{langx|uk|Микола Петрович Бакай|{{transliteration|uk|ukrainian|Mykola Petrovych Bakai}}}}}} (2 March 1931{{spaced ndash}}28 July 1998) was a Ukrainian singer, composer, poet, author and Soviet dissident.
Biography
Bakay was born in the village of {{Interlanguage link|Vynohrad (Kolomyia Raion)|uk|3=Виноград (Коломийський район)|lt=Vynohrad}}, in the Pokuttia region, which was at that time under Polish rule. Due to the outbreak of World War II he was only able to finish seventh class. In 1947, Bakay together with his family was deported to Siberia. He attempted to escape twice, but was not able to succeed. As punishment he was forcefully settled to work at the logging sites and factories near Omsk. There he studied at the local music school of Vissarion Shebalin and later worked as an actor at the Omsk Theater of Operetta.[http://uaestrada.org/poeti_pisnjari/bakaj-mykola "Бакай Микола"] {{in lang|uk}}
Bakay returned from the forced settlement in 1960. He moved to Chernivtsi, where he began singing in the Bukovina ensemble of song and dance. He worked together with many of the performers from the ensemble, but especially with the singer and composer Pavlo Dvorsky. They wrote many songs together, Bakay writing the lyrics and Dvorsky writing the music.[http://www.pisni.org.ua/persons/231.html List of songs by Dvorsky / Bakay] {{in lang|uk}}
Mykola Bakay was buried in his native village of {{Interlanguage link|Vynohrad (Kolomyia Raion)|uk|3=Виноград (Коломийський район)|lt=Vynohrad}}.
Legacy
The house of culture in Vynohrad has a theme exhibition that is dedicated to the poet-singer Mykola Bakay. Not far from the building and near the Taras Shevchenko monument the first local festival of the Ukrainian song Smerykova khata took place in 2009 on the day of Illia (Sunday). It was dedicated to the memory of Bakay and his works. The festival opened under the sound of trembitas{{YouTube|ZmPpcWCxI9U|"Trembita"}} and a dance performed by the National amateur ensemble of song and dance "Prykarpattia" from the village of Otynia.[http://kolomyya.org/se/sites/ko/17685/ "Фестин пам’яті Миколи Бакаяy"] {{in lang|uk}}
Notes
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References
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External links
- [http://kolomyya.org/se/sites/ko/17685/ The festival in the memory of Mykola Bakay]
- [http://www.pisni.org.ua/persons/231.html List of songs that Bakay wrote the lyrics for]
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Category:People from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Category:20th-century Ukrainian poets
Category:20th-century Ukrainian male singers
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