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Bulgarian singer

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Sofi Marinova is a Bulgarian singer born in Sofia on December 5, 1975. She is a female soprano who performs in the chalga and folklore genres, utilizing her voice as her primary instrument. Her professional career began in 1992, and she speaks Bulgarian.

Marinova represented Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Her musical style has been associated with pop, Bulgarian, Eurovision, and Balkan tags on platforms such as Last.fm. She has accumulated 279,210 plays and 24,110 listeners on that service, while maintaining 157,000 social media followers.

Her work has been referenced by 439 other encyclopedia articles. She is recognized as a person within the Bulgarian music scene, with her nationality listed as Bulgarian in various databases.

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Bulgaria
Active from
1975

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
24,110
Total plays
279,210

Tags

popbulgarianEurovisionbalkanchalga

Sofi Marinova (Bulgarian: Софи Маринова, IPA: [soˈfi maˈrinova]; born Sofiya Marinova Kamenova on as 5 December 1975) is a Bulgarian pop-folk and ethno-pop singer of Romani heritage. She is one of the most popular singers in Bulgaria, famed for her extreme five-octave vocal range. She has won multiple music awards and contests. Оften called "the Romani pearl" and "the Romani nightingale", she is compared to Bulgaria's most popular pop singer, Lili Ivanova. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sof

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Key facts

Born
Sofiya Marinova Kamenova , ( 1975-12-05 ) 5 December 1975 (age 50) , Sofia , Bulgaria
Genres
Pop-folk ethno-pop dance
Occupation
Singer-songwriter
Instrument
Vocals
Years active
1992–present
Labels
Ara Music Sunny Music

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
female
Citizenship
Bulgaria
Place of birth
Sofia
Occupation
singer
Languages spoken
Bulgarian
Instrument
voice
Image
Sofi Marinova after winning Bulgarian National Final.jpg
Voice type
soprano
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Commons category
Sofi Marinova
date of birth
1975-12-05
start of work period
1992-00-00
social media followers
157000
Sources (3)

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Encyclopedic overview

Sofiya Marinova Kamenova (Bulgarian: София Маринова Каменова, pronounced [soˈfi maˈrinova]), known professionally as Sofi Marinova (Bulgarian: Софи Маринова) is a Bulgarian pop-folk and ethno-pop singer. She has been dubbed "the Romani pearl" and "the Romani nightingale". She represented Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the song "Love Unlimited". During her career, she has collaborated with several other Bulgarian singers such as Preslava, Azis, and Toni Storaro.

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sofi Marinova” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.