Biography
Svet Boogie Band was a well-known Belarus blues band. They played piano blues, boogie-woogie, Chicago blues.
Repertoire includes original interpretations of works by such seminal blues figures as Muddy Waters, B.B. King and Howlin' Wolf, and home-made compositions; red-hot boogie-woogie numbers (in the style of Pinetop Perkins) and melodious slow blues with soft electric harp accompaniment (Snooky Pryor etc.)
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The band's leader -- Svet -- an old-style piano and harp virtuoso with an unusual bluesy voice was a well-known musician in the Western Europe and CIS Countries. He died in a traffic accident in 2008.
Other band members were:
Tikhon Zolotov (bass),
Dmitry Havrilik (guitar),
Aleksej Zolotov (percussion).
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