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Valya
Valya is a given name. Notable holders include: * Valya (singer) (born 1978), Bulgarian pop folk singer * Valya Balkanska (born 1942), Bulgarian folk music singer * Valya Dudycz Lupescu (born 1974), Ukrainian American writer * Valya Samvelyan Valya Samvelyan ( hy, Վալյա Սամվելյան; born 12 August 1937 – died 3 December 1990) was an Armenian folk singer. Career She initially started her artistic career practicing Soviet ''samodeyatelnost'' (amateur song), but afterwa ..., Armenian female folk-singer See also * Valya algebra {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valya Dudycz Lupescu
Valya Dudycz Lupescu (also known as Valya Lupescu) is a Ukrainian American writer of magic realism and speculative fiction. Background and personal life A second-generation Ukrainian American, Lupescu's writing reflects both her Ukrainian heritage and her American life. She holds an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.A. in English from DePaul University, Chicago. She has taught at DePaul University, Loyola University, and Columbia College in Chicago. Lupescu is the daughter of retired Illinois state senator Walter Dudycz. She is divorced and lives in Chicago, Illinois with her partner and writer, Stephen H. Segal and her three children. Works Lupescu's debut novel,''The Silence of Trees,'' was published in 2010 by Wolfsword Press and was selected as a semifinalist in the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Lupescu co-wrote two books of nonfiction with partner Segal, ''Geek Parenting: What Joffrey, Jor-El, Maleficent, and the McFlys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valya Balkanska
Valya Mladenova Balkanska ( bg, Валя Младенова Балканска; born 8 January 1942) is a Bulgarian folk music singer from the Rhodope Mountains known locally for her wide repertoire of Balkan folk songs, but in the West mainly for singing the song "Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin", part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. Early life Born as Feyme Kestebekova ( bg, Фейме Кестебекова) in a Pomak family in a hamlet near the village of Arda, Smolyan Province, Balkanska has been singing Rhodope folk songs since her early childhood. Career Balkanska performs a repertoire of over 300 songs in Bulgaria and abroad. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valya Samvelyan
Valya Samvelyan ( hy, Վալյա Սամվելյան; born 12 August 1937 – died 3 December 1990) was an Armenian folk singer. Career She initially started her artistic career practicing Soviet ''samodeyatelnost'' (amateur song), but afterwards won a competition held by the Yerevan Radio and became a soloist of the Ensemble of Folk Instruments of Public Radio of Armenia. Some of the most popular songs in her interpretation were "Anushik im quyrik", "Antsar aygus nayelov", "Zov gisher", and "Shorora" by Sayat-Nova, gusan Sheram, Alexey Ekimyan, and others. She died in a car accident in 1990. Her son Ara Gevorgyan Ara Gevorgyan ( hy, Արա Գևորգյան, born April 19, 1960) is an Armenian musician, composer and musical producer. In 2004 he was awarded the '' Honorary Artist of the Republic of Armenia'' title by the President Robert Kocharyan. Biogra ... is the producer of her posthumous "Toghetsir indz menak" ("You left me alone") and "Anushik im quyrik" ("My swe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valya (singer)
Valentina Ivanova Kaneva ( bg, Валентина Иванова Канева), best known as Valya (Валя) (born 23 April 1978), is a Bulgarian pop-folk singer. Valya was born in Haskovo Haskovo ( bg, Хасково ) is a city in the region of Northern Thrace in southern Bulgaria and the administrative centre of the Haskovo Province, not far from the borders with Greece and Turkey. According to Operative Program Regional Develo .... Albums *2001–"I want everything" *2002–"My World" *2005–"Something Intimate" Awards *2000– Trakia Folk Award for "Best Debut" *2002– Annual awards of the magazine "New Folk"- Award for "Best Debut" *2003– Trakia Folk- "Best Song Arrangement"- for the album "What do you see in Me" *2005– Pirin Folk- First Prize for "Best Song"- "New Spring" *2008– University Troubadours "Audience Award" Concerts Abroad *USA Hits *"100 Calls" *"100 Bouquet" *"I will burn" *"Mirror" *"You are the past for Me" *"Sea Wall" *"I, not I" *"Let's D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
