Yuriy Gorbunov told what songs he sings to his eldest son Ivan

The presenter of “Breakfast with 1+1” and “Voice of the Country” Yuriy Gorbunov is the father of two sons – 5-year-old Ivan and one-year-old Danylo. The TV presenter told what songs he sings to children.

Folk songs and loud music

Yurii Gorbunov admitted that it was thanks to the vocal project “Voice of the Country” that the elder Ivan likes loud music, because he was often behind the scenes, in the dressing room, since he was a child.

“Our “Voice of the Country” and our eldest son Ivan with Katya are connected. When he was first born, we had to go immediately to the shooting. Therefore, our driver brought Ivan to the pavilion so that Katya would feed him. And when he suddenly became capricious, and at that time the music began to play loudly, he immediately fell asleep. That’s why he likes loud music,” the presenter recalls.

Yuriy Gorbunov with his son Ivan

And Yuriy Gorbunov admitted that Ivan knows the song “Oh, there’s a red viburnum in the meadow” very well – it’s the song he and his son are singing now, although the kid knows a lot of other music.

“Since he was a child, Ivan listened to various music. We had such a collection of songs from cartoons and fairy tales. Songs from “Kolobka” and “Kozy-derezi” were recorded there… And now together with Ivan we are singing “Oh, there’s a red viburnum in the meadow”. And he also loves and knows Gaitana’s song “Dancing with the Stars” (or there is another name in the song “Miracle”). And we love to sing it at home. There are the following words: “For this is a miracle, a miracle, a miracle, a miracle  between us”. I hummed to him when I put him to sleep, and my mother was at work at that time. More often, of course, he improvised, and did not sing specific songs, but invented something himself, mixed it. Or just mugs. And he fell asleep to my singing. Or he said: “Dad, that’s enough,” Gorbunov says with a smile.

We will remind you that the love story of Yuriy Gorbunov and Kateryna Osadchai began precisely on the set of “Voice of the Country”. This year, the two of them are also hosting the 12th season of the vocal show. The most popular project returned to Ukrainian screens in the fall. Its broadcast was interrupted in February due to the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine. The project returned to remind about the talent of the Ukrainian nation and to support the morale of the audience with a song, as well as to help Ukrainian defenders.

Watch “Voice of the Country” every Sunday at 21:00 on the TET channel through the Ukrainian digital interactive television service “Kyivstar TV”.

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