Lyubka Vasileva Rondova ( bg, Любка Василева Рондова), Ljubka Rondova or Lubka Rondova was a

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best known for performing and recording many of the traditional songs from Macedonia as a folklore region. Rondova was born in Sidirochori (

: Шестеово, Shesteovo),

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municipality (now

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municipality), Kastoria Prefecture,

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in 1936. In 1948, at the end of the

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, she left her village and went to

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with many children-refugees from the western part of

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. Later she moved to

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and graduated in

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from

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. Rondova and her family settled in

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in 1960. Rondova was invited to join the song and dance ensemble "Gotse Delchev" in

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and was its soloist 30 years. She was awarded the highest Bulgarian order Stara planina, First Degree in 2002. She died on March 15, 2016.

References

External links

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A folk song "Black death appeared"
at

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* 1936 births 2016 deaths People from Kastoria Bulgarians from Aegean Macedonia Bulgarian folk singers 20th-century Bulgarian women singers Child refugees Charles University alumni {{Bulgaria-bio-stub