{"id":3511,"date":"2018-10-05T13:50:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T04:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2019-04-10T21:38:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T12:08:56","slug":"val-hal-short-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/val-hal-short-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine Halembakov (Val Hal)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/val-hal\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">VALENTINE HALEMBAKOV (VAL HAL)<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">(<span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Guitars on &#8216;Forgive Me, My Son&#8217;)<\/span><a style=\"color: #ffcc99;\" href=\"https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3415 size-thumbnail lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Val Hal\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3-100x100.jpg 100w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">&#8220;I joined UPF because of this powerful community of fellow musicians, that is very rare nowadays. Everything and everyone seems distanced from each other, using their smart devices and posting likes and dislikes on a daily basis. With UPF we can say a word to the world with the help of beautiful music and keep that connection between humans alive.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #dcdcdc;\">&#8220;At age 15, while visiting friends I saw a guitar, and at once fell in love with this musical instrument. But then, I faced a small problem: it was inconvenient for me to keep a guitar in a habitual p<\/span><span style=\"color: #dcdcdc;\">osition as I was a lefthander. So I turned it, rearranged the strings and since then I have been a left-handed guitar player&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #dcdcdc;\">&#8216;Steel Fusion&#8217; was Val Hal&#8217;s first music project where the band played various covers including Al Di Meola, who is one of Val Hal&#8217;s greatest guitar heroes. I<\/span><span style=\"color: #dcdcdc;\">n August 2016, Val Hal took part in big project \u2013 a Russian Flash Mob of more than 100 guitarist and cellists with very special guests on stage \u2013 Steve Vai &amp; Apocalyptica, which took place in Moscow, Green Theatre, VDNKH. Together they played two songs: \u201cKashmir\u201d by Led Zeppelin and Steve Vai&#8217;s \u201cFlash Mob&#8221;. He has collaborated up to the present time on some interesting musical projects, one of which \u2014 Voices of Babylon, and many solo projects, as guest guitar solo on latest Alex Grata album, and cover project MonstArs Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/val-hal\/\"><span style=\"color: #dcdcdc;\">Read more\/ Full bio&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VALENTINE HALEMBAKOV (VAL HAL) (Guitars on &#8216;Forgive Me, My Son&#8217;) &#8220;I joined UPF because of this powerful community of fellow musicians, that is very rare nowadays. Everything and everyone seems distanced from each other, using their smart devices and posting likes and dislikes on a daily basis. With UPF we can say a word to the world with the help of beautiful music and keep that connection between humans alive.&#8221; &#8220;At age 15, while visiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_eb_attr":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-col4"],"gutentor_comment":0,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",1024,683,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",1024,683,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",1024,683,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",1024,683,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",855,570,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",600,400,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",600,400,false],"et-pb-post-main-image":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",375,250,false],"et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",1012,675,false],"et-pb-portfolio-image":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",400,267,false],"et-pb-portfolio-module-image":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",510,340,false],"et-pb-portfolio-image-single":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",1024,683,false],"et-pb-gallery-module-image-portrait":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",400,267,false],"et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth-large":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",1024,683,false],"et-pb-image--responsive--desktop":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",1024,683,false],"et-pb-image--responsive--tablet":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",826,551,false],"et-pb-image--responsive--phone":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",405,270,false],"album-thumb":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",120,80,false],"photo-thumb":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ValHal-3.jpg",160,107,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Ted Ollikkala","author_link":"https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/author\/ted-ollikkala\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"VALENTINE HALEMBAKOV (VAL HAL) (Guitars on &#8216;Forgive Me, My Son&#8217;) &#8220;I joined UPF because of this powerful community of fellow musicians, that is very rare nowadays. 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