Olena Oleksiyivna Karpenko (born September 16, 1981, in Kyiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian singer, composer, and poet with the stage-name Solomia. Olena composes in Ukrainian, English and Russian. She writes and performs jazz, blues, rock, pop, classics and world in Ukraine and abroad.
In 2011, when Ukraine celebrated the 20th Anniversary of Independence, Olena Karpenko was invited by the Head of the European Council to perform a solo concert in Strasbourg in front of the top-diplomats of Europe.
In 2015, Olena performed her "Oranta" as a signature song of the Ukrainian fashion show, held during New York Fashion Week.
Her "Mermaid" song (lyrics by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, music by Karpenko) was featured in S. Bihun's documentary Mother's Heart. Gongadze (2015).
Starting from 2015, Olena Karpenko has been a juror of the international literature contest Koronatsia Slova.
In 2016, she toured the US with a series of charity performances, all income of which was donated to help orphans of the war in Eastern Ukraine.
Publications
Olena Karpenko, August 2015
Books
Touch (Kyiv, 1998) — poetry book
Necklace (Kyiv, KM Academy, 2005) — poetry book
Dialogues With The Silence (Kyiv, Dnipro, 2014) — poetry book
Trojan Horses of TV Advertisement. Language Manipulations (Kyiv, Smoloskyp, 2007) — investigation on mind manipulation[1]
Olena Karpenko is a winner and a laureate of a number of national, international and worldwide literature, vocals and composition contests. Just to name a few:
