Speaking & Media
Lived experience meets creative practice: belonging, culture, and rebuilding a life across borders. Available for interviews, panels, and community talks.
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Speaking themes
What rebuilding a life takes beyond legal status: community, work, dignity, and practical support for newcomers.
Lessons from communications and community outreach, sharing a personal story, and making space for others to be heard.
How songs and archives carry belonging across borders, and how digital tools can make cultural context easier to find.
Turning an unclear brief into a clear story, an audience-aware campaign, and practical creative direction across brands and independent projects.
Building artist infrastructure in exile while keeping human judgment, rights, and accountability visible.
Meet Sergéy
Interviews · Panels · Community talks
English · Belarusian · Russian
Sergéy Ulyanov is a Los Angeles-based creative and marketing strategist, musician, actor, and founder of NostalgAI Recordz, an independent label supporting musicians in exile. Originally from Belarus, he brings 7.5 years of LGBTQ+ communications and community outreach to his work on identity, belonging, and rebuilding a creative life. His experience spans public-health materials, practical information for newcomers on YouTube, music production, and independent research on Belarusian-language cultural memory. He connects creative entrepreneurship with responsible uses of AI, while keeping human judgment and artists’ rights central. He speaks in English, Belarusian, and Russian, offering firsthand perspectives on displacement, cultural continuity, and creating opportunities for others across borders.
Community communication. Through his volunteer work with Vstrecha in Belarus, Sergéy helped create public-health booklets, posters, and websites and supported community outreach around prevention and access to testing. In the United States, he has used YouTube to share practical information with newcomers and helped people look for potential sponsors.
Public reporting on his outreach and newcomer information: SlavicSac · 2024 · Rubic · 2023
Music as archival work. In an August 2026 interview, Sergéy described recovering recordings for the RAY anniversary edition from collaborators, old correspondence, and scattered digital copies after losing his archive. The project restores song histories and credits for more than 80 contributors in its booklets, connecting his own creative history with the people who helped make it.
Source: SlavicSac · August 17, 2026
Displacement and support. After fleeing persecution in Belarus and the war in Ukraine, Sergéy reached the United States via Mexico, spent nearly a month in detention, and was granted asylum in 2024. Human Rights First helped connect him with pro bono counsel at Cooley LLP—an experience that now informs his public storytelling about access to support, belonging, and rebuilding a creative life.
Sources: Nasha Niva · Human Rights First
Media library
Browse reporting, interviews, and cultural coverage by source language and subject. Original interviews, republications, and event coverage are identified separately; English summaries do not mean every source is in English.
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A short, sourced record of LGBTQ+ community work, migration and asylum, public cultural continuity, and the work of starting again.
THE IMMIGRANT PERSPECTIVEAn English-language conversation with Sergéy Ulyanov about displacement, belonging and rebuilding a creative life in Los Angeles. The episode and its accompanying profile are one feature.
Listen and read · Episode 21 ↗RUBIC.USA follow-up conversation about music, artist-led work and rebuilding in the United States. The September 17 article accompanies the September 4 video.
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HUMAN RIGHTS FIRSTHow music helped Sergéy reclaim his future after persecution, displacement, and asylum.
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GPRESSA visual profile by Karen Shainyan / Just Got Lucky for KYKY + Just Got Lucky, republished by GPress, connecting identity, migration, and self-acceptance.
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UNFILTERED STORIESA first-person video feature on persecution, displacement, asylum, and rebuilding a creative life.
ZERKALOZerkalo’s report draws on Sergéy’s Nasha Niva interview about his asylum case, legal support, and creative identity in exile.
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RUBIC.USA detailed account of leaving Ukraine during the war and reaching the United States on the eleventh attempt.
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ABAA Belarusian-language interview about political persecution, LGBTQ+ identity, and rebuilding in America.
SLAVICSACAn English-language profile about identity, forced migration, and rebuilding a life in the United States.
Read English profile ↗Selected reporting on music, media, Belarusian-language work, and recognized creative projects.
БЕЛСАТ LIFEA guest segment in Раніца з Белсатам about music, cultural continuity and life in America. The publisher marks the interview from 35:08.
SLAVICSACA new profile around the RAY album, resilience, and creative life after asylum.
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РАНІЦАЙ З ДАШАЙ І ВАСІЛЁМEpisode 8: a conversation about RAY, rebuilding and creative work in the United States. The station archive may show a later upload date.
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COMPLEXOfficial event coverage of the Los Angeles art showcase—not an individual artist profile or endorsement. One work from Sergéy’s five-concept series was selected.
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NASHA NIVAAn article quoting Sergéy on paid audience work for Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.
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NASHA NIVAA spontaneous Belarusian-language performance that circulated through diaspora and international media.
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CHARTER 97Music coverage documenting a rare Belarusian-language video crossing into Russian television rotation.
Read archive ↗Additional interviews, music coverage, and a staged performance. These entries use the same search and filters above; a nomination, a panel appearance, and an interview are different kinds of evidence.
Sergéy contributes his perspective on safety, visibility, and public understanding in reporting after the 2024 U.S. election.
Read the report ↗A group conversation about LGBTQ+ community, stigma, and building connections after migration.
Sergéy performs in a staged reading of Daria Slyusarenko’s High Water, directed by Anastasia Shelest. A performance record, not an interview or award.
A group conversation about identity, masculinity, and differences in perspective.
A three-part series tracing life in Minsk, the journey to the United States, and rebuilding an acting career. Separate from the republished 2025 visual profile above.
Read the series introduction ↗An interview about self-acceptance, safety, and LGBTQ+ advocacy.
Read the interview ↗A first-person profile of displacement, community support, and starting again.
Read the profile ↗Coverage of a music video addressing isolation and bullying experienced by LGBTQ+ teenagers.
Read the coverage ↗Sergéy joins fellow musicians to discuss independent releases, promotion, music-video production, and working with labels.
Sergéy, then performing as Ray, appears on the shortlist for Tuzin’s Discovery of the Year category. This records a nomination, not a win.
Read the shortlist ↗A feature on Sergéy’s first Belarusian-language single, released under his earlier stage name Ray, its collaborators, and its entry into Tuzin’s music chart. Nasha Niva credits Tuzin.fm as its source.
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Explore the vinyl edition
Current creative work · Sergéy
Ocean Grey · Original Edition · Vinyl LP
A vinyl-only anniversary journey through archival recordings, previously unreleased versions, and personal fragments in English, Belarusian, and Russian. Created in Los Angeles and manufactured in the United Kingdom.
Available to pre-order. The store lists shipping from October 11, 2026.
View the release & store ↗Ocean Grey sleeve · black vinyl. Product availability and shipping updates are maintained by the store.
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