Valery Mikhailovich Didula
Valery Mikhailovich Didula is a Soviet and Belarusian guitar virtuoso, composer, arranger, music producer, leader of the DiDuLa band. Performs folk and fusion music with a new age influence.
Biography
Didula was born in a family of music lovers. The first guitar was given to him by his mother at the age of five. He began to practice and quickly mastered it. At sixteen he wrote his first compositions. He later got a job as a third guitar ensemble "Scarlet Dawns" led by Nikolai Khitrik. Concerts were held in different cities, collective farms and state farms, and then in restaurants. After graduation school, he entered the radio engineering schoolConfirmation of his style
After the collapse of the ensemble, Didula took up sound engineering in the Grodno song and dance ensemble “White Dew”, where mostly Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, gypsy folk dances and motifs played, sang and danced. As part of this team, Didula first went on tour in Europe - in Spain, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, France, Germany. In Spain, he became acquainted with the flamenco style - the traditional Spanish music and dance style, which influenced its final formation. He claims to have been "infected" with this traditional Spanish style of music and dance. “I know the style I'm working in now,” the musician says in one of his interviews, “this is the sound of a classic Spanish instrument with nylon strings and the sound of a tree that fascinates me". "My pulse accelerated when I heard this Spanish music." This style is now my business card." The first DiDuLa "Flamenco" album was released in 2000.DiDuLa Group
In 2002, DiDuLa gathered a group of musicians and began touring in Russia and the United States.DiDuLa Group consists of: percussionists, keyboard, bass and wind instruments.
Discography
Studio albums
2000 - Flamenco2002 - The road to Baghdad
2004 - Legend
2006 - Cave town of inkerman
2006 - Color Dreams
2007 - Music of an Unreleased Movie
2010 - Fragrance
2012 - Ornamental
2013 - Once Upon a Time
2017 - Aquamarine
2019 - The Seventh Sense
2021 - 2021
Live albums and videos
2006 - Live in Moscow2009 - Live in Saint Petersburg
2009 - Dear Six Strings
2013 - Live in Kremlin
Collections
2006 - Grand Collection2003 - The Best
2013 - DiDuLa. 100 best songs
Production work
2008 - Denis Asimovich “Hommage to Cheslav Drozdievich”2012 - Igor Dedusenko “Prayer”