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Interview with Sealiah by Dessislava Berndt
Translation: Nadejda Nikolova

Sealiah was formed in 1999 and is comprised of Daniela Miteva and Franck Helwina .Their music mixes the Bulgarian voice of Daniela with Spanish, oriental and gypsy rhythms, combining traditional music with a modern sound.
The band has sold more than 35,000 copies of their first album “World Influencia” [...]

Interview with Laura Chukanov by Dessislava Berndt

Foto: Arthur Garcia
Laura, why and how did you decide to enter the contest for Miss Utah?
I was at a point in my life where I felt that I had to do something that forced me to organize. It needed to be something that I felt I could be good [...]

An interview with the pianist Ivan Yanakov by Natalia Nikolaeva
Translation by Iva Kuncheva

Just before the concert of Ivan Yanakov on 26th November 2008 in Hamburg (organized by the German-Bulgarian society in Hamburg and the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin) I got a chance to meet the famous Bulgarian pianist and got an exclusive interview special [...]

An interview with Desislava Slavova by Natalia Nikolaeva
Translation by Iva Kuncheva

Foto: Dessislava Slavova
“If you can dream it, you can do it”
Walt Disney
I like the moments when a person materializes a reality out of their dreams. I admire people who can put love, time, patience and faith into their dreams and thus create an alternate world. [...]

In Kill This Woman Svetlana Atanassova Grabs the Emotions of the Audience
When Svetlana Atanassova is on stage in this play by Mayia Pramatarova, she holds nothing back. Yet, miraculously, she does not appear exposed or vulnerable. It is those of us sitting in our comfortable theater seats that begin to feel defenseless when she shouts [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the composer and musician Andrea Centazzo

Tell us please how your carrier as a musician and a composer has started?
I never had regular music school training when I was young, basically I was mostly drumming and singing with a schoolmate rock band until I was 22. After that I decided to start [...]

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

Снимка: jsome1
Often I Wish I Were
a potato.
Eyes opened
in all directions.
Unafraid
of the cold earth.
The difference
between life and death
for somebody.

Interview with Nancy Ross-Flanigan by Cathy Shap Nickola

Halfway through my teens, in the mid-1960s, my father abruptly announced he was moving the family from Oklahoma to a pin-dot of an island in the South Pacific. Strange Territory is a story about learning to feel at home in two alien places at once: the remote U.S. [...]

Interview with American poet Diane Kendig by Kristin Dimitrova

You have taught creative writing to university students, children, prisoners, as well as to groups of people who have nothing in common except their interest in literature. What is the difference between them in class? What is common between them in class? Where did you get the [...]

Velina Vateva’s interview with Digital Angel

What does “to create” mean to you? Do you think the word tremendously changes its meaning because of the new techniques?
“To create” means to make something out of nothing. I don’t think that words should change their meaning. New techniques are not dangerous for real music or – in general [...]

Velina Veteva presents Veronika Harcsa

Music makes me as open as I can be. Since I’m on stage I’ve become much more open in my personal life. I’ve learned that only honest things work.
If music did not exist, I would be a computer scientist. I almost finished the Technical University, but thanks to music, I [...]

Tihomir Ignatov’s interview with Hristo Yotzov

Mr. Yotzov, tell a little more about yourself. Why you chose the profession of musician?

I will try to outline myself in a few sentences. I grew up in a family of classical musicians. Many times before people ask me, how is it possible in this classical environment that a man [...]

Vanya Nikolaeva’s interview with the musician Anders Peev

Who is Anders Peev and what should we know about him?
I’m a composer and musician with my musical roots in both traditional Swedish folk music and Metal. My parents came to Sweden from Bulgaria and Finland as fugitives during the Second World War. I grew up in a [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the metal craftsman and musician Steve Hubback

When and how did you get started in making gongs and sculptures?
From 1980 til 1989 I made a living only by music and I could never find the gongs and unusual sounds I was looking for. So, in 1990 I was in Aarhus in Denmark. [...]

A short story about the memory of photography
Velina Vateva’s interview with the photographer Iness Rychlik

How does photography extend to the way you see the world?
I have always loved observing things around me, but photography has taught me to be more precise in the way I see everything and I now dedicate a lot of [...]

Gologan is a Bulgarian group that performs a unique mix of ethno-rock poetry. The group was founded in 2004, when poets Ivan Hristov (kaval, vocals) and Petar Tchouhov (electric guitar) began playing experimental art rock; they eventually began to add ethno elements as well. They were later joined by Angela Rodel (vocals and tambura), [...]

Vanya Nikolaeva’s interview with the dark wave-gothic band In My Rosary

In My Rosary were formed in 1992 by the musician Ralf Jesek (voice, instruments, production) and the photographer Dirk Lakomy (lyrics) – originally to be a one-time art project. Based on their fondness for the darker side of the New Wave of the 1980s, the [...]

Photo by Patric Ullaeus
When in the hands of Kee Marcello, the guitar becomes more than just an instrument. It turns into a world of unleashed emotions. The sound masterpieces he creates with the strings have made him one of the musicians whose art you can experience over and over again.
Kee Marcello was born [...]

Katia Delavequia
“Tango is a sad thought that you can dance” – Discepolo – Tango composer

Photo: Juliano Campos
The origins of Argentine Tango are quite similar to Portuguese Fado. Because the music and dance invoke feelings of nostalgia, passion, love suffering and betrayal, its’ representative colors are black and red.
It’s origins date back to the middle [...]

Vanya Nikolaeva’s interview with Celia Baron

Because my heart has been beating only for the music I signed up for training in music literature trade in Köln. Meanwhile I have been working for a year in Musikhauses Arthur Knopp in Saarbrucken. At that time I realized that I was going to be a musician. In 1995 [...]