Ukrainian poet, TV presenter, composer and showman Konstantin Gnatenko shared interesting details of his cooperation with Andrei Danilko, a star, known under the stage image of Verki Serdyuchi. According to the artist, although they maintain friendly relations, the singer always insisted on paying for written songs, despite the fact that Gnatenko himself often gave texts without a fee. He also shared his personal observations about Danilko as a man who was captured by his own stage image.

In addition to the memories of joint projects, Gnatenko in an interview with " He admitted that he was sometimes forced to sell his songs without indicating authorship, because he needed money. He also stated that the state does not protect the copyright of artists properly - in particular, when the works fall into school textbooks without payments to the authors.

" I did not actually earn on this. It is very difficult to earn in Ukraine. The first - the state is robbing you, your verse enters the textbook, this Ministry of Education prints. These are millions of circulations, the author should have received something, ”the poet was indignant.

At the same time, he does not hide respect for Danilko as a multifaceted and intellectual person: " He is a very deep person, and, unfortunately, he is a hostage of the image of Verka Serduchka. He suffers. Often says that he is already everything (tired of the stage image. - Ed. ), but there is a team, there are people who are next to it, and they have children, they have families. Therefore, he must overeat this plow. Although he is a person is quite deep and very versatile "

Interestingly, previously Konstantin Gnatenko wrote songs for Danilko himself. He was the author of hits " And although celebrities were friends, but the singer stood firmly for any work to be paid.

" He has such a position. So this is the hell: we are friends, but take the money. I will not call these amounts, ”the composer added.

According to him, these songs were not transferred to Ukrainian, and perhaps they will remain part of the past. " Let them remain as a story, and let them live in the archives that there was such a moment in our life, ”the poet summed up.

However, in his practice there were cases when, for the sake of financial benefit, he sold songs without indicating authorship. " I have sin - without authorship. There is such a person - wants to be the author of the song, but I know that I need money. I can write a lot of such. For such songs, I received most of all from $ 1,000. But there were very few of them, ”Gnatenko admitted, emphasizing that he was not proud of such practice, but understands it as a forced step.