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Desi might not be the pretties bulgarian singer, or the most famous one, but she certainly brings much needed diversity in Bulgaria's songs for FSC. She was born in our "sea capital" Varna, where she graduates from a french highschool. She is gifted in maths and painting, but instead of becoming a math professor, she creates art in her life. Actually, her first movie was still in high school - the director of "Forbidden for adults" grabs her from the street and asks her to play in his movie. She explains it with her strange appearance, which probably caught his interest. She's among the few bulgarian stars, who walk on the read carpet of the Kan movie festival in France, where she presents Ermano Olmi's movie "The Craft of Weapons", a top in her creative biography. She impresses even Deutsche Welle, who make a short movie for her -
Watch DW report on Desi Tenekedjieva. Since there aren't many movies being shot in Bulgaria (at least ones, that would afford her services), she also starts making music, earning the nickname "The singing actress". Just before our current ESC representative Miro breaks up (officially) from his duo-partner Galq from Karizma, he makes a duo song with Desi -
Kogato vsichko svyrshi (When it all ended), which tops the music charts, probably helped by the amazing and untypically for Bulgaria conceptual video.
She certainly doesn't fit the chalga genre, where they sing and implant silicone in their breasts to earn more money - she does it for the art. She also established "Nova" foundation on 28th December, which gives annual art prizes and helps young artists finance their works.
Desi has an interesting private life (or a potential for one, if the right journalist writes the articles to make her look scandalous), but since she's not that famous (because she's not pretty like a chalga singer and she hasn't enlarged her breasts, and actually isn't scandalous at all), the medias don't cover it that much. She married a guy 10 years older than her, from whom she has a son - Iosif. Unfortunately he passes away after 7 years of a happy marriage. Recently she found a replacement for the love of her life, who helped her with "Nova".
"Noshtta, v koqto (I Wonder)" (The Night, when) is her newest song. She's the director and the text writer behind the song. She says it's about a personal experience - choosing between two loves, one in America and one in Bulgaria. That's also the reason there's both bulgarian and english text. The song is planned to be a bonus track in her upcoming album "Chillout Project".
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