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Group "SunStroke Project"/Still from video YouTube-Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision 2017 participants from Moldova had a wedding right on the stage of the first semi-final of the competition

The group "SunStroke Project", representatives of Moldova at the song competition, is held in accordance with the results audience voting. The group's dossier and video of their performance in the first semi-final with the song "Hey Mamma" are on our Styler.

Moldova at Eurovision 2017: group "SunStroke Project"

Representatives of Moldova with the fiery song “Hey Mamma” captivated the audience and were able to qualify for the Eurovision 2017 final. It is noteworthy that in creative career group "SunStroke Project" this is the second song competition. The artists made their debut at Eurovision in 2010, when they represented their country in Oslo together with Olya Tira. Then they managed to take only 22nd place in the finals, but this year the SunStroke Project's chances of success may be much higher. After the first semi-final of Eurovision 2017, representatives of Moldova entered the TOP 10 of the bookmakers’ ratings.

The group "SunStroke Project" was created in 2008 by violinist Anton Ragoza and saxophonist Sergei Stepanov. The idea to play together came to the guys while serving in the army. A funny incident helped Anton come up with a name for the group when something happened to Anton while working in the field. sunstroke.

On this moment The vocalist of the group is Sergei Yalovitsky. Together with Olya Tira, "SunStroke Project" participated in Eurovision 2010. In 2015, they again tried their hand at the national selection for the competition, taking 3rd place. Luck smiled on the guys in 2017. They took part in the selection "O melodie pentru Europa 2017", became winners and got the opportunity to sing on the Eurovision 2017 stage in Kyiv.

The group "SunStroke Project" with the song "Hey Mamma" entered the top ten best performers the first final of the competition and will perform in the Eurovision 2017 final, which will take place on May 13.

"SunStroke Project"- a musical group that combines different musical genres: dance, pop, club music, house, representing symbiosis modern sound violin, saxophone, live vocals.

The group's current members include Sergei Yalovitsky, Anton Ragoza and Sergei Stepanov. Anton Ragoza is the violinist and main songwriter of the group, Sergey Stepanov is the saxophonist, and Sergey Yalovitsky is the vocalist of the group.

The group "SunStroke" was formed in 2007 by two young Tiraspol residents during their service in a military band. Initially, the group consisted only of violinist Anton Ragoza and saxophonist Sergei Stepanov. The name of the group was chosen by Anton when one day he received sunstroke on the parade ground. They started creating remixes popular songs, adding the sound of live instruments to them.

Then there was participation in the “Evolution Party” along with such celebrities as Lexter, Michell Shellers, Fragma, Yves La Rock.

After this performance, it was decided to combine the sound of two instruments with vocals. So he appeared in the group new member- . In November 2008, SunStroke Project participated in the Dance 4 Life festival, organized by trance music star DJ Tiesto.

The SunStroke Project became famous due to the release of the first single “No Crime”, with which the group took part in the national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, taking 3rd place. The group begins to gain its first fans. In July 2009, the tracks “In Your Eyes” and “Summer” were released, produced by Alex Brasovian, who had previously worked with the group. The tracks immediately fell into rotation on all radio stations in Moldova. In the same year, the group went on their first tour to the cities of Romania, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Russia. The group also creates remixes of compositions by Axwell, Yves La Rock, and other famous artists.

At the end of July 2009, the contract with Pasha Parfeni ended, who decided to start solo career and left the group. A casting call was announced to fill the vacant vocalist position. From many candidates, Sergei Yalovitsky was chosen. He already took part in the selection for Eurovision 2008 under the name Jay Mon with the track “Point of view”. Immediately after this, the group recorded new version“In Your Eyes”, and the first new single released with Yalowitsky is “Believe”.

At the end of 2009, SunStroke Project again participated in the national Eurovision selection. Together with Olya Tira they present the track “Run Away”, which brought them victory at national stage. So in the history of the group it opened new page- Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo. Sergei Stepanov’s saxophone at the competition became known throughout the Internet as the “Epic Sax Guy” meme. Remixes of his saxophone solo collected millions of views on Youtube, despite the fact that the group only took 22nd place in the competition. SunStroke Project builds on their success with the release of the tracks “Sax U Up” and “Epic Sax.” Other singles from this period included "Scream", "Listen" and "Play With Me".

In 2011, SunStroke Project signed a contract with Lavina Digital, then held about 200 concerts throughout Europe. The group re-applied to participate in Eurovision 2012 with the song "Superman", but did not make it through the pre-selection. In the summer of 2012, the SunStroke Project group won gold medal at the WCOPA competition in Los Angeles as the best vocal and instrumental project. At the end of 2012, the songs “Walking in the rain” and “Epic Sax” took first place in the charts of the largest radio stations in Russia - DFM and Radio Record. The band's tracks are used on various TV shows in Russia.

In 2015, "SunStroke Project" took part in the Moldovan Eurovision selection with two songs - "Lonely" and "Day After Day" (with Michael Ra), where they took third place with "Day After Day". The group attended Eurovision 2015 in Vienna together with Lydia Isak as video bloggers.

In 2011-2014, the tracks “Sunshine Day”, “Set My Soul On”, “Party” and “Amore” were released. The band's most recent singles are "Dam Dam Dam", "Home" and "Maria Juana".

"Hey Mamma" was released digitally in 2017. DJ Michael Ra and the SunStroke Project collaborated on the song. Alina Galetskaya wrote the lyrics, she also wrote the lyrics to “Run Away” in 2010. Yuri Rybak, everyone knows from the show “Dancing” on TNT and his participation in Eurovision 2013 and 2016, worked on the production of the number.

The SunStroke Project's performance at Eurovision 2017 was very spectacular, which brought them third place in this music competition - an excellent result for both the group and the country.

Below are short biographies each member of the SunStroke Project group.

Anton Ragosa- violinist, founder of the group “SunStroke Project”, author of the group’s name and author of most of the group’s songs, composer, arranger.

Born 1986 in Tiraspol, Republic of Moldova. He inherited his love for music and the violin from his father. At some point he realized that music was his life, everything he wanted to do. Entered music school quite late - at the age of 13, which did not interfere with successful studies. Then he studied at the College of Music in, becoming a violinist, violist and conductor. Takes part in numerous national and international competitions, receiving prizes in the region classical music. However, Anton’s musical preferences are multifaceted, they are formed under the influence of the albums “Scooter”, “The Prodigy”, “Moby”, etc.

While living in Tiraspol, Anton wrote a lot of music for the SpeX group, which performs trance-instrumental music. Anton has accumulated a wealth of experience performing in groups performing modern electronic music.

He went to serve in the army, where he plays in a military orchestra. There he met Sergei Stepanov. Trying to give a new sound to the instruments, they began to experiment. Their duet became more and more popular, and they decided to come up with a name for it. Anton once got sunstroke on the parade ground and suggested the name “SunStroke”. Without wasting much time, they released their first album, called “Don't word more...”.

After military service, the musicians decided to turn the SunStroke Project group into a trio; singer Pasha Parfeni joined the duo. They sang in clubs, mainly in Tiraspol and Odessa. One day in Odessa they met MC Mislea, who invited them to come to and try themselves on the music market of Moldova. For some time, Anton worked as a conductor in one of the Chisinau orchestras. Anton never strived for popularity, always preferring to remain in the background, and only writing music that touches people's hearts.

Among the members of the group, he is distinguished by his original style, constant mobility and crazy behavior on stage. Anton is very active, always on the move, he has a thousand plans and ideas, but at the same time he loves spending time with his family, playing football and traveling. He is afraid of flying on airplanes.

Sergey Stepanov- saxophonist and founder of the group “SunStroke Project”, aka Epic Sax Guy (so named after being included in the Guinness Book Eurovision-2010).

Born 1984 in Tiraspol, Republic of Moldova. He admits that from an early age he fell in love with music, and the desire to express his feelings through music was so great that he constantly worked in this direction. He entered a music school in Tiraspol, and since his mother insisted that he also study dancing, he followed her advice, even if he didn’t like it. Now he admits that, although he has been playing the saxophone for a long time and has achieved great success, it was dance moves The routines he performs while playing the saxophone have made him famous.

Since childhood he played in musical groups, dreaming of becoming a famous saxophonist. In 2005, Sergey Stepanov graduated College of Music in Tiraspol. After college followed military service in, where he met Anton Ragoza, with whom they created the group “SunStroke”, known today as the “SunStroke Project”.

His musical taste was formed under the influence of the albums of Leonid Agutin and Valery Syutkin, he studies the saxophone, listens and performs a lot jazz music David Sanborn and Eric Marienthal, later added to the list modern DJs: David Guetta, David Vendetta and Tiesto, who left a significant imprint on his style and musical thinking.

It is important for Sergei that the music he performs has a breath of life, which inspires and gives him creative energy. His professional performance and stage movements made him famous.

On the Internet he is known as the Epic Sax Guy. There are many videos on YouTube with his performances of remixes and parodies of Sergei’s dances.

In 2014, Sergey was included in the Eurovision 2010 Book of Records, which includes the most spectacular moments of the song competition in different years. In 2017, the group sang again at Eurovision, where they took third place with the song “Hey Mamma”. Many tabloids around the world wrote “Epic Sax Guy is back,” and new videos of him dancing appeared on the Internet.

At the same time, he admits that he sometimes feels awkward on stage, but his graceful movements delight the audience. In 2011, he married Olga Deliu, they had a son, Mikhail, who is best achievement in their lives. He loves movies and food, gym and table tennis. And despite his courageous appearance, he is afraid of dentists.

Sergei Stepanov loves his country because his family and friends are here, here he can create high-quality work, and there are prospects for growth.

He sincerely believes that to achieve success in life and on stage you need courage, an insane love for life, music and everything you do, because the public loves courageous artists who are enthusiasts of their craft. So he follows his dream, to the delight of his fans.

Sergey Yalovitsky- lead singer of the group “SunStroke Project”.

He was born in 1987 in Chisinau into a family of musicians, which determined his fate from early childhood.

As a child, he successfully participates in music competitions, performs on the school stage and at other events. The decisive factor in the development of his career was the Star Rain competition, after which Sergei was accepted into the Elat cultural and sports center, where he continues to perform on stage, participating in various concerts and competitions. Formed under the influence of the style and music of groups: Prodigy, The Offspring, Linkin Park. Later he became interested in the work of Stevie Wonder and George Benson.

During this time, he gained the experience necessary to sing professionally, and became a singer on sea cruises. Its program included productions worldwide famous musicals, such as “Cats”, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”, “Amazing Grace”, “Phantom of the Opera”, etc. In three years he visited 35 countries on four continents - South America, Africa, Europe and even Antarctica.

He is truly proud of the music the band plays, and especially that it is so highly regarded by the public.

Like the other two members of the group, he good family man, loves spending time with loved ones. While on tour, he enjoys traveling, meeting new people, and enjoying the band's music. He believes that he has chosen the most beautiful profession, does it with his soul and enjoys the fact that the public understands and appreciates it.

Today we can say that the group "SunStroke Project" defined by such concepts as music, friendship, passion, success. The group members are three young, dynamic, active and full of life people who have already won an audience both in Moldova and abroad, becoming famous.

They have great plans For the future, they plan to launch an album recorded in a completely new way.

Discography:

In your eyes
- Rain
-Summer
- Run Away (feat. Olia Tira)
- No Crime
- Sax You Up
- Walking in the Rain
- Sax You Up
-Rain Scream

After a split in the Sunstroke project team, former participants and the authors created an alternative project - Offbeat orchestra, and some Sunstroke compositions rightfully transferred to this project.

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Offbeat Orchestra – is a combination of a driving piano, new music technology(Kaos pad, drum machine etc.), a lively saxophone and a live quality vocal part in combination with modern rhythmic music.

This new and youthful orchestra “Offbeat” is credited with a number of performances both in the CIS - Ukraine, Russia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, etc. and Europe – Romania, Cyprus, Belgium, France, Latvia, Norway etc. The energetic guys from Offbeat orchestra take part in important festivals and open-air concerts; they perform together with such artists as Dj Tiesto, Yves larock, Fragma, Lexter, Mishel Shellers, Rio, Inna, Deep side Dj’s etc.

Offbeat's music entered the top-hits lists of numerous radio stations and music collections (“Dance Paradise” (Russia) Metro Hits (Turkey) etc.) In addition to the writing their own music, the Offbeat Orchestra is also a club music show, where hit songs are combined with a live performance of the piano and saxophone, where music from the past gets a new club sound, and above all – where the original Live Performance takes place.

In 2010 the Offbeat orchestra will take part in one of the most popular Festival on Ibiza!!!