An ordinary guy from Kharkiv.
Kohan grew up in Kharkiv — a kid from an ordinary block who was always more comfortable at the back of the room than the front of it. He learned piano the slow way: by ear, in the evenings. He started writing songs the way other people keep a diary.
The full-scale war moved him to Kyiv, and the ballads changed with him — quieter, more honest, sung in Ukrainian. He still writes like that guy from Kharkiv. Just further from home.
Seven, so far.
the new one
«Мамо»
a soul ballad — produced by Ingvar SteinbergOne voice, one piano, and a phone call home that never quite gets made. It is the newest song in the set — and the one people go quiet for.
Three ways to hear it.
Slow, unhurried songs — built to be listened to, not played over.
Loud rooms, low light. By the third song a club feels closer to a living room.
Best heard by accident — a piano on a Kyiv pavement, a crowd that gathers on its own.
Club — Kharkiv
A small stage, a borrowed upright, and a room that came for something louder and stayed for something quieter. He opened with «Небо зоряне»; by «Червоні рози» nobody was talking.
It is still the gig he measures the others against.