Viktoriya Georgieva ( bg, Виктория Георгиева; born 21 September 1997), known professionally by the

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Victoria (stylised in

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), is a Bulgarian singer and songwriter. She began her career after participating in season four of '' X Factor Bulgaria''. Georgieva would have represented Bulgaria at the

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, with her song "

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". Due to the 2020 contest's cancellation, Georgieva represented Bulgaria at the

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instead, this time with " Growing Up Is Getting Old".

Life and career

Georgieva started singing at age of eleven. After some time she enrolled in the vocal studio "Angel Voices" where her music teacher was Atanaska Lipcheva. Georgieva auditioned for the first 3 seasons of '' The X Factor Bulgaria'', but she never made it past the judges, mostly because of her age.

2015: ''The X Factor'' Bulgaria

In September 2015, at the fourth season of ''The X Factor'', after three attempts, Georgieva finally made it past the judges and to the live shows. She entered the females team mentored by the rapper

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. She remained on the show until week nine, when she was eliminated and ultimately placed sixth.

2016–2018: Debut single and various record deals

Despite failing to win ''The X Factor'', Georgieva received an offer to join Virginia Records, which she declined. Instead, in 2016, she joined MonteMusic and released her first single titled "Nishto Sluchayno", accompanied with a music video directed by Bashmotion and featured VenZy and Niki Bakalov. She then released two other songs with MonteMusic, “Nezavurshen Roman” in 2016 and “Chast ot Men” in 2017. After mutual conflicts, Georgieva left the label in late 2017. In 2018, Georgieva spent ten days in

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, where she wrote and filmed her first English song “I Wanna Know”, released in June 2019, with a music video directed by Dimitry Stefanov, and produced by Velina Ilieva.

2019–present: Eurovision and international debut

On 25 November 2019, it was revealed that Georgieva, now using the mononym Victoria, would represent

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in the

. She and her sponsor Ligna Group created the song “

“, which tells about the inner difficulties in the people, a topic which is very close to Georgieva. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 contest was cancelled, and Georgieva was later retained as the Bulgarian act for the following year's contest. In June 2020, Georgieva released her new song titled “Alright”. The song was created at one of the Eurovision songwriting camps and carries a message of hope and a new beginning. A few weeks later, in August, she and her team spent ten days in a Eurovision song writing camp held in

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and

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, where they managed to create a few potential songs that she could use. In November, she released her third single "Ugly Cry". In January 2021, Georgieva announced that she would release her debut

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, titled ''A Little Dramatic'', in February. The project includes five potential songs that could represent Bulgaria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021. The EP does not include the single "Ugly Cry", however, the song was considered as a potential song to represent

. The lead single from the EP, "Imaginary Friend", was released on 14 February. On 11 March, it was announced during a pre-recorded concert premiered on

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that the song Victoria would perform is " Growing Up Is Getting Old". She performed in the second semi-final, where she qualified to the final on 22 May 2021. Ultimately, she received 170 points, finishing 11th. On 4 December 2021, Georgieva won the third season of ''The Masked Singer Bulgaria'' as “Miss”.

Discography

Extended plays

Singles

Promotional singles

Notes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Georgieva, Victoria 1997 births Living people Musicians from Varna, Bulgaria 21st-century Bulgarian women singers X Factor (Bulgarian TV series) Masked Singer winners Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Bulgaria Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2020 Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2021 Bulgarian pop musicians