Valery Mikhailovich Didula

Didula[3] was born in a family of music lovers. The first guitar was given to him by his mother at the age of five.[1] He began to practice and quickly mastered it. At sixteen he wrote his first compositions.[4] 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 school[5]

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.[6] As part of this team, Didula first went on tour in Europe - in Spain, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, France, Germany.[1][6] In Spain, he became acquainted with the flamenco style - the traditional Spanish music and dance style, which influenced its final formation (Didula's work traces some passages and rhythms characteristic of flamenco and other Spanish movements, but you can't call this music 100% flamenco).[6] 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".[7] "My pulse accelerated when I heard this Spanish music." This style is now my business card."[4] The first DiDuLa "Flamenco" album was released in 2000.[1]

In 2002, DiDuLa gathered a group of musicians and began touring in Russia[8] and the United States.[1]

DiDuLa Group consists of: percussionists (Michail Drumberg and Andrei Atabekov), keyboard (Khaibula Magomedov), bass (Philip Borodin) and wind instruments (Valery Skladanny and Ramil Mulikov).[6]

• Valery Mikhailovich Didula on Instagram
• Official website DiDuLa
• Discography
• Album on Yandex music
• Album in Itunes
• DiDuLa on website People
• DiDuLa in the encyclopedia of guitarists
• «Дидюля спокойно ходит в булочную с авоськой», Вика Зверева, МКС, 17 октября 2006
• Interview on guitar.ru
• DiDuLa on radio «Эхо Москвы»
• Дидюля читает лекцию «Звук как среда обитания» на телеканале «Дождь» 18.08.2012 г.
• Творческий вечер группы «ДиДюЛя» в мультимедийном центре «РИА Новости» 07.06.2012 г.
• «Дидюля: музыка лечит!» — программа «Говорим и показываем с Леонидом Закошанским» на НТВ, 22.11.12 г.
• Совместная пресс-конференция Дидюли и Макса Лоренса (Евровидение-2014) on YouTube