"Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin" ( bg, Излел е Дельо хайдутин, lit=Delyo has become a
hajduk) is a
Bulgarian
Bulgarian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria
* Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group
* Bulgarian language, a Slavic language
* Bulgarian alphabet
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folk song from the central
Rhodope Mountains
The Rhodopes (; bg, Родопи, ; el, Ροδόπη, ''Rodopi''; tr, Rodoplar) are a mountain range in Southeastern Europe, and the largest by area in Bulgaria, with over 83% of its area in the southern part of the country and the remainder in ...
about
Delyo, a rebel leader who was active in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
The song is most famously sung by
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 fo ...
, a 1977 recording of which was included on the
Golden Record carried on board the ''
Voyager 1'' and ''
Voyager 2'' probes.
Other versions
The first versions of the song were recorded by Georgi Chilingirov and Nadezhda Hvoyneva. Recordings of Valya Balkanska singing it were first made by the American scholar of Bulgarian folklore Martin Koenig in the late 1960s, along with other original Bulgarian folk songs.
An instrumental arrangement appears on
Wendy Carlos' album ''
Beauty in the Beast
''Beauty in the Beast'' is a studio album from the American keyboardist and composer Wendy Carlos, released in 1986, on Audion Records, her first for a label other than Columbia Records since 1968. The album uses alternate musical tunings and s ...
'' as "A Woman's Song," with synthesized Indian and Western instrumentation in place of
Bulgarian bagpipes
Bulgarian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria
* Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group
* Bulgarian language, a Slavic language
* Bulgarian alphabet
* A citizen of Bulgaria, see Demographics of Bulgaria
* Bul ...
.
Lyrics
Sources
Bulgarian folk songs
Contents of the Voyager Golden Record
Songs about military officers
Cultural depictions of military officers
Cultural depictions of Bulgarian men
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