- He is the front man for Gogol Bordello, a gypsy punk band fusing supercharged folk influences with a sideshow cabaret.
- The character 'Eugene' in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) is based on him.
- Father was a Russian butcher, and played guitar in the Ukraine rock band Meridian.
- Family fled Ukraine after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986. After being a refugee in Poland, Hungary, Austria and Italy the family emigrated to Vermont.
- Dj'd a multicultural set of wild dance music for six years at the Bulgarian Bar in New York City's Lower East Side.
- Mother is half Servitka Roma.
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