In the artist’s words: Describe one of your earliest musical memories in detail. The project came together as Nastasia Y was attending music college, and enlisted some friends to play Ukrainian and Eastern European jazz fusion with her. Now releasing music primarily under Nastasia Y, the music combines folk with futuristic ideals Find a song of yours on Apple Music that you love and tell us what makes it special. Tell us why you chose this song. “Yest' Na Sviti” The poet Taras Shevchenko was born a serf under the Russian empire and was imprisoned for his work in Ukrainian. Nastasia Y wrote the music to his beautiful poem about freedom.