Eduard Drach Едуард Драч
Drach in 2009
Background information
Born	1965 (age 58–59) Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR
Genres	Ukrainian folk music
Occupation(s)	Neurologist, musician
Instrument(s)	violin guitar keyboards bass guitar mandolin banjo kobza bandura husli lira

Eduard Drach (Ukrainian: Едуард Драч), born 1965 in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (present-day Ukraine), is a composer, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is an active member of the Kiev Kobzar Guild. The author of numerous songs in a variety of styles, Drach is noted in particular for his original psalms in the Ukrainian historical folk style.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Drach was educated as a physician^[6] and still works as a neurologist, his career in music notwithstanding. His first instrument was the violin. He went on to become a prize-winning singer-songwriter at numerous festivals, in particular the 1989 Chervona Ruta Festival.

Drach's musical styles include ballads, traditional folk songs, folk rock, folk jazz, and folk avant-garde. Apart from the violin, he also plays guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, mandolin, banjo, kobza, bandura, husli, and lira.^[7] Several of his songs have been adapted for lute or torban by Roman Turovsky.^[8]

Bibliography

• Catharsis – song texts and poems (2007)^[9]

Discography

• Небо України (Nebo Ukrainy) (1994)
• Двом Душам Дарується (Dvom dusham darujet'sia) (2005)
• Про Славу І Багатство (Pro slavu y bahatstvo) (2011)

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