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It was interesting to work in the sphere of pop music, it’s another genre, and every professional singer has to take risks and try new things – has to work to enrich himself, not only in the field of music but in other things…

Option Magazine (USA), March/April 1989

Kate about the Trio Bulgarka

Suddenly, there I was working with these three ladies from a completely different culture.

In 1960 she earned her first prize – at the folklore festival in Gramatikovo. Dafino, Libe (Dafino, My Love)
2. Funeral Song
12. Angel in the morning feat. Instead of just one female, there was a very strong female presence. It was interesting to see the way the men in the studio reacted to this. Keranka

Rok vydání: 2005

Žánr: Gypsy & Balkan
Label: World Connection

Nálepky:

Balkan, Bulgaria, World Music








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Trio Bulgarka (also known as ‘Three Golden Coins’, previously known as ‘Bulgarka Folk Trio’) is a Bulgarian vocal ensemble, consisting of Stoyanka Boneva, Yanka Rupkina and Eva Georgieva.

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9. It was hard work, and we improvised Bulgarian harmonies onto her music. I’ve never worked with women on such an intense creative level, and it was something strange to feel this very strong female energy in the studio.

yanka rupkina biography books

She grew up in a family for whom the Strandja  Mountain folk songs were  part of both work and pastime. With the Trio Bulgarka, she provided vocal harmonies on Kate’s albums The Sensual World and The Red Shoes.

Rupkina subsequently performed as a solist for the national television and radio Bulgaria group, the Balkana. Peperuda (A butterfly was flying)
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Thus, Yanka was introduced to the special techniques of the Strandja singing by her grandmother. Her singing has warmth to it. They signed to record labels Bulgaria Balkanton and Hannibal in 1987. Born in a tiny village near the Black Sea port of Bourgas, and at the foot of the Strandja mountains – which give their name to her unique style of singing – it is the origin of her often melancholy songs, with their strange inherent optimism and hope for a better life to come, either here or in the next world.

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They sang on three tracks: Deeper Understanding, Never Be Mine and Rocket’s Tail.