Ukrainian song writers

One of the nice comforting things about coming into Church here in Ukraine was that I recognised lots of the songs from their English translations. It also has become very useful for learning Russian of late, although of course they aren't direct translated it can show how ideas are expressed differently. So from that aspect it has been great.

I guess the thing is...where are all the songs coming from Ukraine? There are some, don't get me wrong. However, the most popular and most common seam to be the translated songs. 

Some of these songs really are great, after all we do have a lot of song writers across, America, Australia, Britain and other English speaking countries so it's not surprising that we get some very good songs being produced. However, these songs are written by Western writers writing for a western context (all be it with the same unchanging God).

Of course this isn't just true of Christian music. Most of the popular Music in Ukraine is in English. I just hope that Ukraine will have more of it's own songs, about it's own situations, written by it's own songwriters. Rather than just rip off's.