Kvitka "Kacey" (or "Cassie") Cisyk (Ukrainian: Квітка Цісик, Kvitka Tsisyk; April 4, 1953 – March 29, 1998) was an American soprano of Ukrainian ethnicity. Cisyk, a classically-trained opera singer, successfully pursued a career in four different musical genres: popular music, classical opera, Ukrainian folk music and commercial jingles for radio and TV advertisements.
Cisyk was the daughter of two Ukrainian immigrants; her given name, Kvitka, is Ukrainian for "flower". Her father, Volodymyr Cisyk, a well known Ukrainian concert violinist and teacher, taught his daughter the violin when she was 5 years old, grooming her for a career as a classical musician.
As the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants, Cisyk was raised with Ukrainian music, and she is well known in the Ukrainian-speaking world for her two albums of Ukrainian songs.
In 1988 she recorded her first album, Kvitka, Songs of Ukraine which won top honors in the 1988 Ukrainian Music Awards.
Her second album, Kvitka, Two Colors, was released in 1989. was dedicated to "the spirit of the Ukrainian soul, whose wings can never be broken." Today, songs from both albums continue to be heard on radio in Ukraine.
Both albums where nominated for a Grammy Award in 1990.
Both Songs of Ukraine and Two Colors were family projects. Cisyk's second husband, Ed Rakowicz, a recording engineer, produced them; her first husband, Jack Cortner arranged and conducted them. Her sister Maria, a concert pianist and teacher, performed the solo piano selections on the record.
Kvitka Cisyk Rakowicz died from breast cancer on March 29, 1998, six days before her 45th birthday.
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Треклист:
01 Іванку (Ivanku)
02 Рушничок (Rushnychok)
03 Стоїть гора високая (Stojit' gora vysokaya)
04 Ой видно село (Oj vydno selo)
05 Колискова (Kolyskova)
06 Сидить дівча над бистрою водою (Sydyt' divcha nad bystroyu vodoyu)
07 Бабусю рідненька (Babusyu ridnen'ka)
08 Ой казала мені мати (Oj kazala meni maty)
09 Комарик (Komaryk)
10 Ніч така Господи (Nich taka Gospody)
11 Гандзя (Handzya)
12 І шумить і гуде (I shumyt' i gude)
13 Та туман яром котиться (Ta tuman yarom kotut'sya)
14 У горах Карпатах (U gorah Karpatah)
15 Взяв би я бандуру (Vzyav by ya banduru)
16 Верховино (Verhovyno)
Kvitka Cisyk
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