Vladimir Matetsky


Vladimir Leonardovich Matetsky is a Russian and Soviet composer, producer, and radio presenter. Matetsky is a member of the Russian Authors' Society. He is married and has one daughter, Maria and son, Leonid.
Matetsky started to take music classes under the direction of Sofija Moisseevna Karpilovskaya, a student of Elena Fabianovna Gnesina. Vladimir learned to play guitar just as piano. He was particularly influenced by The Beatles. At the end of the 1960s, Matetsky started to play in various rock bands, piano, guitar, bass-guitar. Around the same time he first started writing songs–unusually, in English rather than Russian.
His major success is considered to be his song Lavanda, which was written for Sofia Rotaru. It was awarded a golden disc by Melodiya.
Currently he lives and works in Moscow.

Popular Songs

  • "Lavanda" by Sofia Rotaru and Jaak Joala
  • "Hutoryanka" by Sofia Rotaru
  • "Luna, luna" by Sofia Rotaru
  • "Bilo, No proshlo'" by Sofia Rotaru
  • "Tolko etogo malo'" by Sofia Rotaru
  • "Lunnaya raduga'" by Sofia Rotaru
  • "Dikie Lebedi'" by Sofia Rotaru
  • "Byla ne byla'" by Sofia Rotaru
  • "Tvoi pecialinie glaza'" by Sofia Rotaru
  • "Nochnoi motilek'" by Sofia Rotaru
  • "Zasentebrilo'" by Sofia Rotaru
  • "Net mne mesta v tvyom serdce'" by Sofia Rotaru
  • "Bolsche ne vstrechu" by Alexander Barykin
  • "Avtomobili" by Vesiolie Rebiata
  • "Pozovi menya v nochi" by Vlad Stashevsky
  • "Malish" by Danko
  • "Zheltaya noch" by Vadim Kazachenko