Vopli Vidopliassova

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Vopli Vidopliassova Воплі Відоплясова
Background information
Origin	Kyiv, Ukraine
Genres	Rock, punk rock, folk-rock, psychedelic
Years active	1986–present
Members	Oleh Skrypka Oleksiy Melchenko Eugeniy Rogachevskyi Serhiy Sakhno
Past members	Oleksandr Pipa Yuri Zdorenko Philippe Moja Stéphane Moufflier Gerard Christophe

Vopli Vidopliassova (Ukrainian: Воплі Відоплясова [ˈwɔpl⁽ʲ⁾i widoˈplʲɑsowɐ], lit. 'Screams of Vidoplyasov'), also shortened to VV (ВВ), is a Ukrainian rock band. It was created in 1986 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine). The leader of the band is singer Oleh Skrypka. Vopli Vidopliasova are the founders of Ukrainian rock-n-roll style and neo-ethnic rock. They first sang Ukrainian rock outside Ukraine. Their influences include folk, patriotic songs, punk, hard rock, heavy metal and, most recently, electronic music.

Their song Den Narodzhennia is featured in the Russian crime films Brother and Brother 2 by director Aleksei Balabanov. Band member Oleh Skrypka has also produced several solo albums.

In 2009, their record label, Kraina Mriy, released all their albums for free as a Christmas present.^[1]

A lot of their early material (1986-1996) is in Drop C tuning.