Taras Topolia - Ukrainian Rock Band Antytila Joined the Territorial Defence Forces before the War.

Taras Topolia is singer and frontman of leading Ukrainian rock band
Antytila. He is also spokesman of the Youth Council to President
Zelensky of Ukraine. In 2018, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the future president
of Ukraine, participated in one of their videoclips, LEGO. Antytila has
collaborated with U2 and Ed Sheeran as well as other bands and
musicians.

Shortly before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the band joined the
Territorial Defence Forces, having previously served as volunteers
since the annexation of Crimea in 2014. In March 2022, the band made an
appeal to perform remotely in the Concert for Ukraine, a benefit concert
raising funds for those affected by the invasion, but they were refused
a place at the concert due to their association with the military. As a
result, Ed Sheeran collaborated with the band on a remix of his song
‘2step’, with profits from streams of the music video being donated to
Music Saves UA, a fundraising project created to provide humanitarian
aid in Ukraine.
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Antytila (Ukrainian: Антитіла) is a Ukrainian musical group. It includes
Taras Topolia (vocals), Serhii Vusyk (keyboard, artistic director),
Dmytro Zholud (guitar), and Dmytro Vodovozov (drums), Mykhailo Chyrko
(bass).
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https://twitter.com/tarastopolia
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https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa
https://antytila.com/
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