Lagha\u2019s extensive knowledge of music also means he has a broad spectrum of pieces to choose from each season.\u00a0For Danijil Szemko, that music choice often comes down to what songs he is playing with his band in Hungary.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Hungarian ice dancer plays the\u00a0guitar and harmonica in an underground band that performs in bars, clubs and cafes. Their repertoire is full of classic rock covers, so\u00a0when the rhythm dance theme for the 2024-25 season was announced as \u201csocial dances and styles of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s\u201d, the choice was easy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe perform Elvis (Presley) every other song,\u201d Szemko said. \u201cFrom Elvis to the 70s, 60s, rock\u2019n\u2019roll \u2013 all of this is so me. I really love this music. I dive into it headfirst.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really love music in general. For me, figure skating is not so much about the dance, but about the music. I\u2019m not that interested in the dance and technical aspects, but music really motivates me.\u201d<\/p>\n
His love for music aside, the skater\u00a0is humble about his own musical abilities on stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honest, I don\u2019t do much,\u201d Szemko confessed with a laugh. \u201cI\u2019m a lousy musician. Everyone is playing, and I’m just jumping up and down. I\u2019m happy, I\u2019m firing up the crowd. I blow into the harmonica once in a while, I strum some guitar strings. You could simply turn me off, like the bass guitarist of the Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious. They would turn off his bass guitar during concerts, and he was just joyfully jumping up and down, not playing anything. That\u2019s me, more or less.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lagha\u2019s extensive knowledge of music also means he has a broad spectrum of pieces to choose from each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-248442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}