The most talented children of Ukraine. The winners of the Dity.Help Music contest have been announced

The team of the Black Sea Games festival, together with the charity platform Dity.Help, the M1 music channel and Nashe Radio, held the Dity.Help Music vocal competition for children aged 6 to 16 years inclusive.

499 applications were received for the Dity.Help Music contest from young singers from all over the country, including those children who were forced to leave their homes and became internally displaced persons or refugees.

The competition was held in three stages: two online qualifying rounds and the final with a live audition in the studio of the M1 music channel. Given the security situation, the project was implemented in the format of television filming.

"It is important that young Ukrainian singing talents had the opportunity to meet, communicate, and gain invaluable experience working with professionals and participating in television filming. This is definitely a big plus for their creative development and unforgettable emotions for years to come. I am grateful to the project team, jury, artists and partners for their attention to the children and their support. Thank you to our unbreakable children and their parents for being and continuing to be creative in this difficult time. A low bow to the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the opportunity to work and do good deeds. Our movement "For Children for the Future" continues. And we believe that in the near future we will bring back the big children's holiday "Black Sea Games" and hold it under a peaceful sky, on the shores of our native Black Sea in Ukrainian Skadovsk," said Mykola Bagraiev, the project's patron and founder of the Tavria Foundation.

The Dity.Help Music contest is a charity event. Participation in the competition is free. The costs of accommodation and meals for the participants, educational activities, and technical support are covered by the organizing committee, sponsors, and partners.

The project was sponsored by the All-Ukrainian Charitable Tavriya Foundation, with KAN Development as the general partner and Optima School as the sponsor of the TV project on M1. The project was supported in the media by OBOZ.UA, Fakty.ua, and Telegraf.ua.

The jury of the competition included leading experts of the music industry of Ukraine and famous artists: Valentin Koval, one of the founders of the Black Sea Games festival; Natela Chkhartishvili-Zatsarinna, general producer of M1 and M2 TV channels; Vitaliy Drozdov, general producer of TAVR Media; and Olena Mozgova, producer, Honored Artist of Ukraine Tonya Matvienko, vocal teacher Olena Savinova, songwriter, performer, frontwoman of The HARDKISS Yulia Sanina, producer of Tavr Records Valeriy Saskovets, singer, composer, and actress TARABAROVA.

As a result, the jury decided that the winners of the Dity.Help Music contest were:

• Daryna Zubrytska (Chynadiyovo, Transcarpathian region, nomination "Female vocalists, vocalists, duets, groups 6-10 years old")
• Artem Kotenko (Okhtyrka, nomination "Female vocalists, vocalists, duets, groups of 11-13 years old")

• Anna Tkach (Lutsk, nomination "Female vocalists, vocalists, duets, groups of 14-16 years old"),
• Folk art collective "Vocal Ensemble "Spivohrai" (Bila Tserkva, nomination "Contemporary folklore performance"),
• Anna Doina (Kyiv, nomination "Author's Song").

The winners will receive a "turnkey song" with which they can make a powerful start on the big stage. The tracks for the winners will be produced by the Ukrainian music HUB TAVR Records. Later, all the songs for the winners of Dity.Help Music 2024 will be presented on Nashe Radio.

Participation in the Dity.Help Music contest will provide young vocalists with ample opportunities to express themselves in the professional music environment.

The competition also promotes the participation of children in various image projects at the national and international levels and collaborations with recognized masters of the contemporary Ukrainian scene. Dity.Help Music 2024 was supported by both recent young contestants and top artists of contemporary Ukrainian music: Victoria Niro, Vitalina Tsymbalyuk, DANIELA SHAPOCHNIKOVA, MASHA DANILOVA, 7TEEN's, Sofia Egorova, Olena Usenko, RuhankoMen, NAYA, Darisha, YAKTAK, CHEEV, PARFENIUK, SoloHa, Lida Lee, OKS feat KRYLATA, Wellboy, DIBROVA and Olena Topolya, ZLATA OGNEVICH, TARABAROVA, Maria Burmaka, Tonya Matvienko, DOMIY, Olya Polyakova, Mint, KOLA, MONATIK, Yulia Sanina, Artem Pivovarov. Dity Help. Music events were organized by Halyna Zaviyska, Denys Zhupnyk, and Andriy Chornovol.

The gala concert of the project was broadcast on September 1 on the air of the United News telethon.

TV broadcasts of the Dity.Help Music charity project will be shown: September 7, 14 and 21 - M1, 20:00; September 15, 22 and 29 - M2, 19:00.

During the broadcasts, there will be a qr-code on the screens to support the projects of the Dity.Help charity platform, which continues to work to help children affected by the war. More than 2000 children have already received help.

Thanks to Dity.Help and partners, cultural centers, art schools, medical facilities, playgrounds, sports grounds, kindergartens, and educational spaces are being equipped in the de-occupied territories of Kherson region.

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