Valya Balkanska

Valya Balkanska

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Valya Balkanska


Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Valya Mladenova Balkanska
Born = birth date and age|1942|1|8|mf=y
Origin = Arda, Smolyan Province, Bulgaria
Genre = Folk
Years_active = 1960–present

Valya Mladenova Balkanska ( _bg. 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.

Born in a hamlet near the village of Arda, Smolyan Province, Balkanska has been singing Rhodopean folk songs since her early childhood. She has been performing her reportoire of over 300 songs in Bulgaria and abroad. Balkanska is most famous for "Izlel e Delyu Haydutin", which she recorded in 1972 accompanied by the bagpipe (gaida) player Dimitar Petkovski.

Balkanska has been working with the Rodopa State Ensemble for Folk Songs and Dances from Smolyan, of which she is a soloist, since 1960. Her album "Glas ot vechnostta" ("Voice from the Eternity"), released in 2004, is a compilation of her best known songs, including "A bre yunache ludo i mlado", "Goro le goro zelena", "Maychinko stara maychinko".

In 2002, Balkanska was awarded the Stara Planina Orden (the highest Bulgarian award). [http://www.focus-news.net/?id=n625490] She was honoured with her own star plate on the Bulgarian Walk of Fame in Sofia in December 2005. [http://www.famousgrouse.bg/alley/vala_balkanska/]

References

* [http://avtora.com/artists/biografii/walya_balkanska Biography of Valya Balkanska] from avtora.com bg icon

External links

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipb_xzcCs6I Izlel e Delio Haidutin on Youtube]


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