Gogol Bordello is a famous American musical group of originally Russian origin, the tracks of which are still heard on many famous radio stations. This collective 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 Evgeniy Gudz. As a child, he was fond of music, mastered musical instruments early. As a teenager, he created his first musical composition.
Upon reaching adulthood, Eugene decided to travel, he traveled around 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 a great music performer.
Gudz gathered his first team in Vermont, a region in the United States. They called themselves The Fags. The first performances did not have any impact on the local audience, no result was achieved by the young men. As a result, the band's founder 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 Sergei Ryabtsev, guitarist Oren Kaplan and drum specialist Eliot Ferguson. Also, the newly minted team took care of the dancers, they were helped by 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 to "Gogol Bordello". According to Eugene, this was done for the purpose of irony, to scoff at the uneducated American audience.
In the future, the fate of the musical group was successful. Soon, young men and women managed to get a permanent place at evening performances in one of the local nightclubs.
Throughout the history of the group's existence, the composition has changed more than once. Initially, there were mostly Russian guys, but at the moment the organization includes members from all over the world, for example: Chinese Elizabeth Chi-Wei San, French Pedro Erazo.
Musical career
The main creative direction of "Gogol Bordello" in its music videos and performances was the atmosphere of the theater, gypsy acoustics. Over time, their performance has hardly changed in any way, despite numerous changes in the lineup.
The newly-made group published their first plastic in 1999, popularity was not long in coming. The guys became famous musicians, people came to their concerts in nightclubs from all over the world.
In 2001, they went on a tour, visited many cities in the United States of America. But all these performances were only under the tag of the first music collection. The work on the second was rather difficult, only in 2002 the Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony.
In the future, they managed to release dozens of tracks, which still do not lose their relevance and relevance. The musicians have about five released collections of songs. 10 years after the creation of the group, the guys reached their peak of popularity.
Further creativity
In 2018, the group undertook a grandiose tour, the scale of which covered dozens of cities in Europe and the United States. After that, the team went to prepare for their twentieth anniversary, which was successfully celebrated with a number of performances in 2019.
At the moment, the musicians retain their popularity, consistently gathering thousands of people at concerts around the world and are not going to stop the activities of the long-standing organization.
