Pink Floyd collaborates with Ukrainian singer in new song

Romar Fernando

April 15, 2022

• British rock band Pink Floyd has released a new song with the vocals of a Ukrainian singer to raise money for humanitarian relief in Ukraine, April 8, Friday.

  The title of the new track is ‘Hey Hey, Rise Up,’ the band’s first original new music in almost 30 years. It was recorded with Andriy Khlyvnyuk from Ukrainian band Boombox, who quit an international tour to join the Territorial Defense Forces and was wounded.

  The band’s guitarist David Gilmour discovered Khlyvnyuk through a video on Instagram. “Then I saw this incredible video on Instagram, where he stands in a square in Kyiv with this beautiful gold-domed church and sings in the silence of a city with no traffic or background noise because of the war,” Gilmour said.

  “It was a powerful moment that made me want to put it to music,’ he added. Gilmour spoke Khlyvnyuk while he was in a hospital in Kyiv recovering from a mortar shrapnel injury.

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