“I began playing on the simplest old guitar, which was nearly impossible to tune – some of the tuning pegs even fell off!” Meet Tasha S, the Ukrainian guitar phenom whose nonchalant covers have won her millions of followers

TikTok might be under fire in the United States, however that’s not stopping the runaway guitar train that is Tasha S, who’s taken the electrical guitar and utilized it to climb up the heights of 4.8 million TikTok and 1.7 million Instagram fans.

The 20-year-old Ukraine-born guitar player got a lot attention by spinning off ill riffs and spectacular solos while remaining nicely stoic-faced. “I was currently playing the guitar, however I wished to turn it into something more,” she describes. “I felt the desire to share my music with others.

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♬ оригинальный звук – Tasha S

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Andrew Daly is an iced-coffee-addicted, oddball Telecaster-playing, alfredo pasta-loving reporter from Long Island, NY, who, in addition to being a contributing author for Guitar World, scribes for Rock Candy, Bass Player, Total Guitar, and Classic Rock History. Andrew has actually spoken with favorites like Ace Frehley, Johnny Marr, Vito Bratta, Bruce Kulick, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Rich Robinson, and Paul Stanley, while his all-time favorite (rhythm gamer), Keith Richards, continues to avoid him.