YURKO

Welcome to MY myspace!!! Where to start? Well I guess I’ll skip through the years of playing in various cover/lounge bands and get to Seven Year Itch. This was my first original band, we released an EP entitled "TIME", shot a video for the single "2000 Years", got a bunch of radio and video spins, toured Canada and the U.S. When we hit the studio to start working on a new CD, the sessions were cut short as I was asked to join Nelly Furtado (Dreamworks) on her Whoa Nelly! world tour. The tour with NELLY FURTADO lasted a year and a half and included television appearances on Jay Lenos Tonight Show, Last Call with Carson Daly, Rosie ODonnell, the VH1 Awards, Top Of The Pops (UK) and countless other performances around the world. Some of the tour highlights consisted in opening for U2, David Gray and Mobys Area:One along with festivals in England, Scotland, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand and several European countries sharing the stage with great bands like the Foo Fighters, Destinys Child, Queens Of The Stone Age and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. After coming off the road with Nelly I had the extreme pleasure of performing with Canadian guitar legend Kim Mitchell on his greatest hits tour across Canada, this truly was a highlight of my musical career and one of the best tours I have ever been part of. Recent recordings of my guitar playing can be heard on AMANDA STOTT (EMI) "Chasing the Sky" produced by Jon Levine (Philosopher Kings, Nelly Furtado) and Andreas Carlsson (Backstreet Boys, Bon Jovi)... EMMA ROBERTS; who is Julia Roberts neice; "Unfabulous and More" produced by Brian Malouf (Foo Fighters, Eve 6)... and SOCIAL CODE’s "Whisper to a Scream" CD single with producer Arnold Lanni (Simple Plan, Our Lady Peace). That pretty much leads us up to the present time. I worked on my CD with my partner in crime Taras Blyzniuk at his Trubble Clef Studios in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and recorded "HEAVY" - a ten song CD that I’m currently promoting. Aside from my solo project you can catch me performing live in Canada and the USA with Klooch (www.myspace.com/klooch) an all original Ukrainian rock band with tons of energy and great tunes. CHEERS... AND KEEP ON ROCK’N!!! I edited my profile with Thomas’ Myspace Editor V4.4