Iryna Zinkovska — Merited Artist of Ukraine, recipient of awards from Ukrainian and International pop music festivals and contests (Svitiazh River Wave Festival in Lutsk, Children’s World Festival in Budapest, Black Sea Festival, Yalta and others). Winner of the Mark Cheremshyna literary award. Author of the Through distance to love collection of poems, she releases the I — Like a Swan album in 2001, the I will call you CD in 2005 and the Delicate Song CD in 2009. Her songs have won the All-Ukraine Radio Song of the Year award multiple times, have been included in compilations of top pop songs and get regular airplay on Ukrainian radio stations.
In 2000, Iryna Zinkovska was presented with the Ukrainian President’s Award, 2nd order, for her contribution to the development and popularization of Ukrainian song. The singer regularly appears on television programs.
Iryna Zinkovska’s voice is a wonderful, melodic alto that is particularly resonant at the lower register. This lovely singer with the powerful, enchanting voice and generous soul has a many-faceted repertoire from which she selects songs depending on the whims of her heart. She sings songs of her parents, of her motherland, of love, that most wonderful of feelings, and of ideals that should be present in all artists’ souls, transmitting warmth, joy and hope through her art. Iryna often plays tours in Ukraine and in neighboring countries. The Ukrainian tours Family, I Believe in Ukraine and My Constellations included Dmytro and Nazar Yaremchuk (the latter being the composer of a number of Iryna’s songs), while From Heart to Heart was a solo tour that included the provincial capitals as well as many smaller cities and towns, all of which remain in her memory and in her heart, as wherever Iryna may play in Ukraine, one finds people who care deeply for Ukraine and who love Ukrainian music.
information, photo from the official site: http://www.zinkovska.com/
