Bulgarian Sounds

Bate Sasho feat. MaryEtha & Alex Jr. - "Tzenata Na Istinata" ('The Prise Of The Truth")

2010-12-01T14:08:00.007+02:00

Second video by the hip-hop artist Bate Sasho for this year. It is directed by Andrei Hadzivasilev. In the inro of the song takes part the Bate Sasho's nephew - Alex Jr.

Bate Sa feat. SantaFlow & Norykko - "Sofia Madrid'

2010-11-14T12:17:00.003+02:00

The video is directed by Viktor Kolev. And the music productin is by Bate Sasho.

Grafa - "Nevidim" ("Invisible")

2010-11-14T12:10:00.003+02:00

This is the video of the new single by the pop artist Grafa (The Count)

Bate Sasho - "Gore Glavata" ("Head Up")

2010-04-14T22:22:00.002+03:00

Bate Sasho is one of the few hip hop artists in Bulgaria, who earns his money with hip hop music. The Video of the song “Gore Glavata” (“Head Up”) is his first video, which is directed and produced by himself. Operator, editor and the post-producing is made by Nikolay Skerlev. The clip is filmed around one old abandoned sugar factory. The song is included in his second album Bez Vruzki (“No connections”).

Magi Djanavarova - "Triabva da znam" ("I have to know")

2009-09-26T19:57:00.005+03:00

"Triabva da znam" ("I have to know") is the debut single from the upcoming album of Magi Dzanavarova, the winner of the third Bulgarian Music Idol.The song is composed and arranged by Vladimir Ampov - Grafa (The Count).

Various Artists - "Utre" ("Tomorrow")

2009-07-30T13:08:00.003+03:00

This song is created because of Avon's campaign against the breast cancer. The artists who participate in the song are Maria Ilieva, Grafa, Kamelia Todorova, Orlin Goranov, Desi Slava, Mery (from "Mary Boys Band"), Orlin Pavlov, Dimo Stoianov (from "P.I.F."), Svilen (from "Ostava" ), Aleksandra Raeva & Miroslava Katsarova. I hope we haven't missed someone. :)

Miro - "Avgust e Septemvri" ("August is September")

2009-07-04T19:24:00.003+03:00

Miro is one of the famous Bulgarian pop singers. This is the video for one of the songs from his last album "Omirotvoren" ("Tranquilized"). Miro is a part of the well-known duo "KapuZma" (pronounced "Karizma"), but has also a solo carier.

Toma Zdravkov - "Geroi" ("Hero") and Niama Miasto V Teb" ("There Is No Place Inside You")

2009-07-04T18:48:00.010+03:00

Toma Zdravkov is the winner of the second Bulgarian "Music Idol".The videos here are the clips for his first song - "Geroi" ("Hero"), and another song from his first album - "Nqma mqsto v teb" ("There Is No Place Inside You").These two are Toma's first clips.

Respect - "Druga Naglasa" & "Ni Ta Biva"

2009-05-02T19:09:00.003+03:00

Krum and Ceco are born in Plovdiv. When they're 5, they begin playing the piano, but the place where they gain their true musical skills is the national school of musical and dance art "Dobrin Petkov". In the beginning Krum and Ceco are interested in Break Dance. Later they understand that the thing they love most is the music. In 2002 the band Respect is formed. In the beginning the members of the band are at one moment even 4, but unfortunately the others stop being engaged with hip-hop and continue on their own way. In 2005 Respect buy technique and create their own label called "Respect Records". This way Respect give a chance to other talanted musicians from Plovdiv and the region to realize their ideas.

"Druga Naglasa"("Another View"):

"Ni Ta Biva"("You Suck"):

LiLana feat. Snoop Dogg & Big Sha – "Dime Piece"

2009-04-30T18:30:00.007+03:00

The music and the arrangement are by Ariel Rodriguez, one of R.Kelly's musical producers. In the song's base is a simple hit of a Swedish group from the '90's end.The text is by the Chicago rapper Reggie Ruckus and by Snoop Dogg, who brings his expectedly good, natural style in the song. It's mixed by Slavic Livins, who has worked with Beyonce Knowles, Korn, Britney Spears, Akon, T-Pain, Liquid Soul, R.Kelly, Christina Aguilera, Bump J, Cap 1, Dem Frenchize Boyz, Freeway, Drew Sidora, Jill Scott and others.The song is recorded in the studio MG Group in Chicago and in L.A. The video is shot in L.A. by the director Morocco Vaughn, who has shot videos of Kanye West, R.Kelly, Twista and others. In the video besides LiLana, Snoop Dogg and Big Sha takes a part one of Snoop's closest friends - Dan Magic Juan (known from 50 Cent's and Puff Daddy's clips), and also Coldhard from Crucial Conflict.The digital premiere of "Dime Piece" in the USA will be at the beginning of June and the single will be published in September. LiLana will then have a guest appearance in Snoop Dogg's show on MTV at his invitation. In the summer lies ahead the publishing of a video of the song's remix, which is prepared in the moment by one of the most famous DJs of the world scene.

Rushi ft. Ustata - "Instead"

2009-04-24T22:32:00.004+03:00

Rushen Vidinliev, more famous as Rushi Vidinliev, is a Bulgarian pop-singer, born on 3rd August 1980 in Sofia. Can be described as one of the most prosperous young musicians. His debut on the Bulgarian scene is in 2002 with the song "Vsichko se vrushta"("Everything Returns"), for which there is an English version called "Taking a Breath".Rushi makes a clip for the song.His next single is "Away From You", which is followed by the album "Ot druga strana"("From another side").The album is mostly pop and dance with a lot of dynamic - typical for Maga's productions.Another song of Rushi, which becomes popular, is "Il Ritmo Del Mio Cuore".This song is in Italian.Because of its energy the song becomes the summer hit of 2003.In the end of the same year he made a new song "Instead", which is in a duo with the rapper Ustata (in English:The Mouth).This is the video of the song in Youtube:

Nevena Tsoneva - "Ne Izchezvai" ("Don't Disappear")

2009-04-11T22:12:00.004+03:00

This is one of Nevena Tsoneva's songs. Nevena is the winner of the first Bulgarian Music Idol.The song is included in her first album "Bez Strah" ("Without Fear").

Stefan Lalchev – "Ne Znaesh" ("You Don’t Know")

2009-04-09T15:07:00.004+03:00

This is the first video of the finalist in Music Idol 1 - Stefan Lalchev. With this song he won the competition "Burgas I Moreto" ("Bourgas And The Sea") 2008

Happy 15th Birthday

2009-03-31T14:53:00.005+03:00

Happy 15th Birthday to my homie The_Demon_King. He is the man who help me with every publication of the blog. I wish you success in the life!

Vladimir Ampov - Grafa - "Vrag" ("Enemy")

2009-03-21T13:35:00.005+02:00

Владимир Ампов - Графа (Vladi Ampov - Grafa) is a bulgarian pop-singer. His father is Kiril Ampov - a known musician

Discography :

1993 - "Gumeni Chovecheta" - "Little Gum People"
1996 - "Zelen Hayver" - "A Fool's Errand"
1998 - "6 e Po-Dobre" - "6 Is Better"
1999 - "Elektroshok" (soundtrack kum miuzikul) - "Electroshock" (Musical Soundtrack)
2001 - "Davam Vsichko Za Teb" - "I Give Everything For You"
2003 - "Seks Za Pari"(Single) - "Sex For Money"
2003 - "Iskam Te" (Single) - "I Want You" (Single)
2003 - "Iskam Te" (Album) - "I Want You" (Album)
2004 - "Ako Ima Rai" - "If There's A Paradise"
2004 - "Slunce V Ochiteti" (soundtrack kum "Morska Sol") - "Sun In Your Eyes" ("Sea – Salt" Soundtrack)
2006 - "Chestno V Ochi" - "Truthfully In Eyes"

This is his last song video "Vrag" ("Enemy")

Doni feat. Liubo, Irina Florin, Lady B, Spens, Neti & Nasko (from BTR) - "Strahoten Den" ("A Wonderful Day")

2009-03-19T18:20:00.006+02:00

The song is included in the album "Tozi Film" ("This Movie") created by the duo "Doni and Neti". The song is against the drugs.

Pasha Hristova - "Edna Bulgarska Rosa" ("A Bulgarian Rose")

2009-03-16T19:43:00.005+02:00

Parashkeva Hristova Stefanova, known artistically as Pasha Hristova (Bulgarian: Паша Христова) (July 16, 1946 - December 21, 1971) was a Bulgarian singer, best known for performing one of Bulgaria's most popular songs "Edna balgarska roza" ("A Bulgarian Rose"). Some of her other hits were "Povey, vetre" ("Blow, oh Wind"), "Tozi diven sviat" ("This Wonderful World", a version of Czesław Niemen's "Dziwny jest ten świat") and "Yantra" ("Yantra"). Her brief but meteoric career started in the late 1960s. Between 1967 and 1971, she won a number of awards at Bulgarian and international music festivals. She died in a plane crash in 1971.

Life and career:

Pasha was born in Sofia. When she was five, her parents divorced and her father, who married another woman, received custody of her. She had a very close relationship with her grandmother on the paternal side, who took care of her and took her to violin lessons. While most people at the time called her Pepi (normally a diminutive from the male name Petar), her grandmother, who was a great admirer of Pasha Angelina (a famous Soviet Stakhanovite from the Stalin era), gave her the nickname Pasha.[1] Pasha suffered a lot when her grandmother died. In the subsequent, teenage years she reportedly had many conflicts with her father and would occasionally move to her mother's place after a row and stay there for a couple of days. Acquaintances at the time and later described her as a very shy and modest girl. After she completed her secondary education, she started work as a draftsman at an electric truck factory. She married Vasil Ivanov, an engineer, who had helped hire her. Later she left him (without an official divorce) and kept the child that they had.

At the same time, Pasha applied for a school for pop singers. She was accepted because of her voice and despite a speech defect or lisp that was later treated surgically. With the help of her teacher, she found work as a soloist - after a failed attempt to be accepted in Sofia Orchestra - in the Labour Corps Ensemble. Her first great success was at the 1967 Sochi festival in the Soviet Union, where she won a gold medal and the first prize. In 1968 she moved to the Sofia Orchestra, with which she worked during the rest of her career. The then-conductor and leader of the band, Nikolay "Bebo" Kuyumdzhiev, was soon replaced by Nikolay "Fucho" Arabadzhiev, with whom Pasha collaborated productively and basically lived in a common law marriage until their death. She would spend the following years touring Bulgaria and various countries, primarily in what was then the Soviet bloc. In 1970 she won the 3rd prize at the Golden Stag Festival in Braşov, Romania, 1st prize for the song "Yavor's Spring" (music by Svetozar Rusinov) at the radio competition "Spring", and at the all-Bulgarian Golden Orpheus Festival, the Great Prize was won by "Povey, vetre" and the First Prize - by "A Bulgarian Rose" (with music by Dimitar Valchev), both performed by Pasha Hristova. In 1971, her performance of "Tozi diven svyat" won the First Prize for a Polish Song at the Sopot International Song Festival in Poland. Finally, her song "Byala pesen" ("A White Song") won the Bulgarian "Melody of the year" TV contest in 1972, after her death.

Death:

In 1971, she was due for a flight to Algeria where she would have toured with the Sofia Orchestra and other colleagues, including well-known pop singers Mariya Neykova, Boris Gudjunov and folk music singer Yanka Rupkina. As the plane was taking off, it rapidly lost altitude, hit the ground headfirst, broke in half and its front exploded and went in flames. Pasha and Nikolay Arabadzhiev were in the front seats and did not survive (all in all 30 people were killed, including the entire crew). When Pasha died, she was carrying her second child, by Arabadzhiev. The causes of the plane crash remained unclear.

Musical style and voice

Pasha Hristova worked in different genres. Some of her songs can be described as ballads or chansons, many others are jazz and contemporary rock and roll, and she has even recorded a few folk songs. As was common among Bulgarian singers at the time, a large part of her songs were translations or broad adaptations of foreign originals.

Her singing voice was capable of varying between the powerful and the dramatic ("a voice that sweeps everything away"), on the one hand, and the gentle and the lyrical, on the other.

Her colleague, singer Mimi Ivanova, has commented that despite being a shy and delicate person in everyday life, Pasha was "a vulcan on the stage".

Discography (incomplete):

Singles and EPs

* 1969: "Az, ti i rozite" (You, Me and the Roses) (original unspecified, Bulgarian lyrics by Milcho Spasov) / "Shtastlivi zaedno" (Happy Together) (a Bulgarian language version of The Turtles' 1967 song Happy Together)
* 1970:"Neka tozi mig da spre" (Let This Moment Stop) (a Bulgarian language version of Dusty Springfield's 1968 song "I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten", Bulgarian lyrics by Milcho Spasov). Featuring also "Cigani" (Gypsies) (Bulgarian lyrics by Bogomil Gudev), "Znay" (I Want You To Know) (Bulgarian lyrics by Pasha Hristova) and "Ostani" (Stay) (music by Nikolay Arabadzhiev, lyrics by Dimitar Vasilev)
* 1971: "Tozi diven svyat" (This Wonderful World) (music and original lyrics by Czesław Niemen, Bulgarian lyrics by Bogomil Gudev) / "Kogato si otidesh" (When You Have Gone) (Bulgarian lyrics by Bogomil Gudev)

Albums:

* 1972: "Edna balgarska roza" (A Bulgarian Rose, post-mortem)

Track listing:

1. "Edna balgarska roza" (A Bulgarian Rose) (music by Dimitar Valchev, lyrics by Nayden Valchev)
2. "Ostani" (Stay) (music by Nikolay Arabadzhiev, lyrics by Dimitar Vasilev)
3. "Edna godina lyubov" (A Year of Love) (original unspecified, Bulgarian lyrics by Zhiva Kyuldzhieva)
4. "Tozi diven svyat" (This Wonderful World) (music and original lyrics by Czesław Niemen, Bulgarian lyrics by Bogomil Gudev)
5. "Popaten vyatar" (Sailing with the Wind) (music by Genko Genkov, lyrics by Milcho Spasov)
6. "Znay" (I Want You To Know) (original unspecified, Bulgarian lyrics by Pasha Hristova)
7. "Shtastlivi zaedno" (Happy Together) (a Bulgarian language version of The Turtles' 1967 song Happy Together)
8. "Povei, vetre" (Blow, oh Wind) (music by Yosif Tsankov, lyrics by Dimitar Vasilev)
9. "Spri, vreme" (Stop, Time) (music by Alexander Yosifov, lyrics by Anna Georgieva)
10. "Kogato imash" (When You Have) (original unspecified, Bulgarian lyrics by Bogomil Gudev)
11. "Cyala nosht" (The Whole Night) (original unspecified, Bulgarian lyrics by Dimitar Kerelezov)
12. "Byala pesen" (A White Song) (music by Dimitar Valchev, lyrics by Petar Karaangov)
13. "Neka tozi mig da spre" (Let This Moment Stop) (a Bulgarian language version of Dusty Springfield's 1968 song "I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten", Bulgarian lyrics by Milcho Spasov).
14. "Az, ti i rozite" (You, Me and the Roses) (original unspecified, Bulgarian lyrics by Milcho Spasov)

Emil Dimitrov and the song "Moia strana, moia Bulgaria" ("My country, my Bulgaria")

2009-03-16T19:27:00.004+02:00

Emil Dimitrov (Bulgarian: Емил Димитров) (December 23, 1940, Pleven - March 30, 2005, Sofia) was a popular Bulgarian singer. He made his debut in 1960 and recorded about 30 albums altogether. In the 60s Lili Ivanova and Emil Dimitrov were the most popular singers of modern songs. During the last years of his life he exhibited a talent for drawing as well.
Discography:
Bulgarian Evergreens

1. Moia strana, moia Bulgaria (My country, my Bulgaria) - Emil Dimitrov

[edit] Samo edin zhivot ne e dostatachen (Only a life is not enough)

1. Ako si dal... (If you have given something...) - Emil Dimitrov
2. Pismo do mama (A letter to my mother) - Emil Dimitrov
3. Samo tazi nosht (Only tonight) - Lili Ivanova
4. Samo edin jivot (Only a life) - Iordanka Hristova
5. Sbogom Maria (Good-Bye Maria) - Panaiot Panaiotov

"Moia strana, moia Bulgaria":

Diko Iliev - Danube's horo

2009-03-10T19:10:00.005+02:00

Danube's horo is a popular Bulgarian dance from the middle north Bulgaria.The music is played by wind instruments.It's typical that the movements of the hands are quite quick.The horo's time is four four time(4/4).The horo's creator is Diko Iliev.

Valya Balkanska - Izlel e Delyu Haydutin

2009-03-08T22:21:00.000+02:00

Valya Mladenova Balkanska (Bulgarian: Валя Младенова Балканска) (born 8 January 1942) is a Bulgarian folk music singer from the Rhodope Mountains known for singing the song Izlel e Delyu Haydutin, part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977.

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The Bulgarian anthem "Mila Rodino"

2009-03-08T00:17:00.001+02:00

We start with the Bulgarian anthem: "Mila Rodino" ("Мила Родино", translated as "Dear Motherland" or "Dear native land")
It is the current national anthem of Bulgaria. It is based on the music and text of the song "Gorda Stara Planina" by Tsvetan Radoslavov, written and composed as he left to fight in the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885. The anthem was adopted in 1964. The text has been changed numerous times, last in 1990.

Mila Rodino (Transliteration)

Gorda Stara planina,
do ney Dunava siney,
sluntse Trakiya ogryava,
nad Pirina plameney.

Refrain: (twice)
Mila Rodino,
ti si zemen ray,
tvoyta hubost, tvoyta prelest,
ah, te nyamat kray.

Padnaha bortsi bezchet
za naroda nash lyubim,
mayko, day ni muzhka sila
putya im da produlzhim.

Dear Motherland (English translation)

Stately Balkan Mountains,
next to it the Danube sparkles,
the sun shines over Thrace,
and blazes over Pirin.

Refrain: (twice)
Dear Motherland,
you are heaven on earth,
your beauty, your loveliness,
ah, they are boundless.

Countless fighters fell
for our beloved nation,
Mother, give us manly strength
to carry on their course.

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The former Bulgarian anthem "Shumi Maritsa"

2009-03-08T00:15:00.002+02:00

Between 1886 and 1944, the Bulgarian national anthem was Shumi Maritsa; from 1950 to 1964, it was Balgariyo mila, zemya na geroi ("Bulgariio mila, Zemia na geroi"); in the brief period between these two, the march "Republiko nasha, zdravey" was used instead of an anthem.

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2009-03-07T23:17:00.001+02:00

Hi, few months ago I got the idea for this blog and I decided to make it real. I'd like to collect togother wonderful bulgarian songs, no matter if they're new or old. Under most of the songs will be information, for some of the songs - links for a free download, and for those who have a videoclip will be a video from YouTube. Most of the information for the songs will be taken from Wikipedia. Because I'm not doing fine with the English, a friend of mine will help me for the english translation. My friend’s profile. He is also the co-creator and future co-admin of the blog. We hope you like the bulgarian songs we offer you!