Pavlo Zibrov
Pavlo Mikolajovich Zibrov (Ukrainian: Павло Микола́йович Зібров) is a Ukrainian pop singer (baritone), song writer. People's Artist of Ukraine (1996). He became notable for his song Khreshchatyk.
Pavlo Zibrov was born on June 22, 1957 in a village of Chervone, Nemyriv Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast in a family of Russian Nikolai Ivanovich and Ukrainian Hanna Kyrilivna. Mother worked as a teacher, father was a master of all trades. After couple of years in school, Pavlo moved with his family to Kyiv. He graduated from the Kyiv Lysenko special music boarding school which he started sometime in 1965, while his brother military-music college in Moscow. In 1981 Zibrov graduated from the orchestra department of Kiev State Conservatory of Tchaikovsky and in 1992 - the vocal department.
In 1986-93 he was a vocalist of the State symphony orchestra of Ukraine. Since 1994 Zibrov is a director of his own Pavlo Zibrov Theater of Song[1] and instructor at the department of pop singing of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts.