Gogol Bordello

Gogol Bordello
Gogol Bordello performing in 2014
Background information
Origin	New York City, New York
Genres	Punk rock Folk punk Latin rock polka folk rock dub Romani Gypsy punk[1][2]
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Rubric SideOneDummy Columbia MapleMusic
Members	Eugene Hütz Sergey Ryabtsev Pasha Newmer Thomas Gobena Boris Pelekh Alfredo Ortiz Pamela Racine Pedro Erazo Erica Mancini
Past members	Oren Kaplan Elizabeth Sun Eliot Ferguson Karl Alvarez Rea Mochiach Sasha Kazatchkoff Vlad Solovar Ori Kaplan Susan Donaldson Chris Tattersall Piroska Racz Yuri Lemeshev
Website	gogolbordello.com

Gogol Bordello is an American punk rock band from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, formed in 1999 by musicians from all over the world and known for theatrical stage shows and persistent touring. Much of the band's sound is inspired by Romani and Ukrainian music mixed with punk and dub, incorporating accordion and violin (and on some albums, saxophone).^[3]

The band has appeared in several popular films, most notably Everything Is Illuminated (2005) in which lead singer Eugene Hütz co-starred with Elijah Wood in a dramedy/adventure story about the Nazi purges in Ukraine. The group appears playing a brass band in a set that included the "Star-Spangled Banner" and the traditional Yiddish song "Bublitschki". Gogol Bordello contributed the song "Start Wearing Purple" to the film's score. The band is the focus of the 2008 documentary Gogol Bordello Non-Stop. The band recorded the song "Let's Get Crazy" for Coca-Cola's Euro 2012 advertising campaign.^[4]