Bulgarian Music

Silvie Vartan is a French singer born in Bulgaria. She is one of the first rock singers in France. She has become very famous all over Europe.

In 1965 Silvie got married with Djony Holiday. They are known as the golden couple. They divorced in 1980. Silvie got married again in Los Angelis for an American producer called Tony Scotti. They adopted a girl from Bulgaria-Darina.

 

Yildiz Ibrahimova is a Bulgarian singer of Turkish origin. She is one of the most popular jazz singers in Bulgaria. She also sings Bulgarian, Turkish and Gypsy folk songs and Russian romance.

 

 

 

Lili Ivanova- the biggest name in the history of Bulgarian pop music. Idol of three generations. The secret of this phenomenon lies in her magnificent, brilliant, clean voice, filled with drama and gifted with a huge range. Known to Bulgarian and foreign critics as a benchmark for quality and professionalism.

The phenomenal success of the biggest star of Bulgarian pop music has lasted for four decades, and her faithful pilgrims for whom she is just Lili, multiply with each successive generation. Incredibly ambitious, the song dictates her life, she serves it as a real thoroughgoing professional. With her natural talent she discoveres intuitively the emotional spark in every song and ignites it in an inimitable way. Lili Ivanova contributes to the promotion of Bulgarian music in the world and raised its international prestige through the numerous awards that she has won. The circulation of her records are astronomical for a small country like Bulgaria and can hardly be achieved by another contractor. As difficult will be to reach the number of concerts and sang songs.

Emil Dimitrov was born in 1940. He performes in almost all European countries. His biggest success was in Russia. In France he became very famous performer. His songs “Monica” and “Julia “ took the top places in a lot of European rankings . Big European companies make contracts with him. He sang on the same stage with Jovani Morandi, Ricky Povey, Josef Kabson and Alla Pugachova. In France there’s a brilliant career for him but he missed home and returned back to Bulgaria. For all his life he emit 30 albums with 55 million copies sold only in Russia. He dies in 2005.

Nicolai Ghiaurov is an opera singer. Defined as a Bass № 1 on the planet.

He performs roles in Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater, Vienna’s Shtatsopera, Parish Grand Opera, Millan’s La Scala, London’s Covent Garden and New York’s Metropolitan opera, as well az many other prestigious theaters. Remarkable are his roles Mephistopheles in "Faust" Charles Gounod, Philip II in Don Carlos of Giuseppe Verdi, Don Juan in the eponymous opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Boris Godunov in the opera of Modest Mussorgsky.

Raina Kabaivanska is a world-class artist of world renown. She is Born in Burgas on 15 december 1934, still below the age of 30 years, she conquers the world scene.

In 2000 Raina Kabaivanska was awarded the Grand Prix.
"A life dedicated to music, Venice. She is Cavalier of the Italian Republic for civil courage and for her outstanding contribution to the art. Five times she is declared the most popular personality in Italy and 2 times musician of the year.

The most popular singers and bands in Bulgarian pop and rock music are : BTR, Grafa,Rushi Videnliev,Toni,Stenli,Gravity Co,Ostava,D2,Karizma,Mariya Ilieva,Wickeda

Toni is one very famous Bulgarian performer. She started her career like a dancer in the ballet ''Sega'' (sega means now in English). "Vsichko bilo e na san" (vsichko bilo e na san means everything was a dream in English). Toni has only one album- ''Prerajdane'' (prerajdane means rebirth)

Maria Ilieva is a great pop singer. She was a singer in the band called "Coffee". "Lunen san" (a dream from the moon) is the first song of Maria Ilieva. And the first album is with the same name. She has some songs with Grafa (famous Bulgarian pop singer).

D2 is a boys band. The band was created in 1999. The names of the boys are Dimitar Kanev (guitar), Dicho Hristov (the old singer of the band), Krasimir Todorov (piano), Aleksandar Obretenov (bass), Iavor Aleksandrov (drums). D2 has two albums- ''Ledeno momiche'' (ledeno momiche means frozen girl in English) and "2002".