Oleksandr Chemerov


Oleksandr "Sasha" Chemerov is the Ukrainian rock musician, songwriter, DJ and the frontman of Ukrainian rock band Dymna Sumish and of US rock band The Gitas. Also, he was the author of the songs for the bands Quest Pistols Show and Agon, for actor, TV presenter and singer Arthur Pirozhkov and for singer Valeria Kozlova, also he was the author of lyrics for songs of English-language album of Ivan Dorn. Music videos of songs written by Sasha Chemerov had hundreds of millions of views on YouTube as of May 2020.

Biography

Oleksandr Chemerov was born on August 4, 1981 in Chernihiv a Ukrainian city 148 km north to the capital Kiev. His father was a restaurateur and local politician and mother was stewardess. He begun to play rock music in the age of 14 and in 1998 he founded the band Dymna Sumish which played mainly grunge and already in 1999 won the second place on Chervona Ruta and in next years won highest places on several another festivals including Woodstock Festival. The band released three albums: Ty zhyvyi , V kraini iliuziy and Dymna Sumish .

Songwriting

Quest Pistols and Agon

Oleksandr Chemerov was the author of music and lyrics of Ukrainian pop-rock band Quest Pistols Show from its emerging in 2007 to 2015 and then he became the author of songs of successor of this band which name is Agon.
The Chemerov's songs of Quest Pistols had in May 2020 more than 100 mln views on YouTube in total and about 42 mln views for Agon.

Arthur Pirozhkov

In 2010-2018 Oleksandr Chemerov wrote music and lyrics for several songs of very popular Russian actor, TV presenter and singer Arthur Pirozhkov. The Chemerov's songs of Arthur Pirozhkov had in May 2020 more than 100 mln views in Youtube.

Valeria Kozlova

In 2010 the album "Dai mne znak" of Russian singer Valeria Kozlova with all 12 Chemerov's songs was released

Ivan Dorn

The lyrics of all songs of the English-language album "OTD" of Ukrainian singer Ivan Dorn was written by Oleksandr Chemerov.

Moving to USA and The Gitas

In 2012 Oleksandr Chemerov moved from Ukraine to the United States. In January 2015 he founded in Los Angeles the English-language rock band "The Gitas" which released EP "Garland" in 2015 and 13-track album "Beverly Kills" in 2017.