E215 Slava Vakarchuk (Okean Elzy)

Front man and Ukrainian icon, Slava Vakarchuk, of Ukraine’s most successful rock band, Okean Elzy, joins us on this episode of The Adamantium Podcast. We discuss their newest and first ever English language album, Lighthouse, and working with the likes of Travis Barker and Johnny Rzeznik on these songs. We also talk about his connection to Toronto and it’s Ukrainian community, the band’s charitable contributions, their 30th anniversary, performing hundreds of intimate concerts on the frontlines of the war, his political involvement and activism at home, winning Ukraine’s version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, their anthem “Obiymy,” and performing it live with Coldplay.