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Gloria biographyGloria (Глория) was born Galina Ivanova Peneva in Ruse on 28th of July 1973. She showed an interest in singer from a very early age. After her parents' divorce, her and her brother Nikolai moved to Dve Mogili, where their grandparents took care of them. Gloria graduated from the Agricultural Technical School there. She started singing in Izvor Orchestra at the age of 17, after being spotted during her performance at the wedding celebration of her cousin. They did a successful tour in Serbia in 1991. After two years, they split. Gloria founded her own group, called Lyra, which lasted only 5 months. Then, she started singing in the best variety-bars and nightclubs in the country, managed by impresario Kapka Petkova. Her repertoire consisted of the songs of Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Madonna, Kylie Minogue and other famous singers. "It was a wonderful period of my life, Gloria says, but extremely exhausting, every month I was in different town, I was bored from singing somebody else's songs, I wanted to produce my own ones". In 1993, in Kardjali, she met her future husband Ilia Zagorov, who would compose some of Gloria's biggest hits, such as Nostalgia, 100% zhena, Sbogom adios, Ne ostariavai mamo, Tsigansko sartse. With the money she had earned, Gloria recorded her first songs in Maxim Goranov's studio in Pleven. The day she met Toni Dacheva, who gave her advice, became a turning point in her career and life, and she changed the original conception of the album's music style. Released on November 1994, this album was very different from the popular songs on the moment. She met her future producers Maria and Mitko Dimitrovi – the owners of Payner Studio, at the Night Bar in the Interhotel of Veliko Tarnovo. "That moment started all my successes. I produced my first album Shtastieto e magia (Happiness is magic) and it happened to be one of the most succesful on the Bulgarian musical market. The sold numbers of copies overpassed all my anticipations, as well as those of my publishers and producers". Videoclips were shot by Nedelcho Yordanov for every song of the album, and one year later, Gloria's first videotape was released. Of all the songs from the album Shtastieto e magia were shot video clips. Gloria got more and more involved into the producing process, and took part to many of her videoclips as a scriptwriter and assistant producer. In November 1995, the second album Za Dobro ili Zlo was released. It sold over 600,000 copies, making it the biggest selling album in Bulgaria for the year. Between 1996 and 2001, Gloria released one album per year. Style ranged between pop-folk (chalga) and more folkloric style, leading her to the title of "The Queen of Pop-Folk". 1996 : She gave birth to a daughter called Simona on September 30th, the same day as her third album Angel s Dyavolska Dusha (Angel with devil soul). Later the same year, she did her first live tour. Her videoclip for Angel s Dyavolska Dusha was awarded Music clip of the year. 1997 : In September, Gloria released the album Nostalgia. The title song, written by Gloria and composed by Ilia Zagorov, played a key role in her career, and become a hymn to all immigrants. Album release party was held the restaurant "Perfect" in Sofia in front of hundreds of fans. This was also the year where Payner started releasing the first Superstar Fiesta compilation, featuring songs from their artists, which would become a tradition in the coming years. 1998 : Gloria became the first Bulgarian folk singer to be invited on tour in the US. In Chicago, she shot a video of the title song from his upcoming album 100% Zhena (100% woman). She wrote the lyrics of 10 out of 11 songs of the album, and composed 3 of them (7 others were composed by her husband). 1999 : she released her first best of album. 2000 : on April 20th, her new studio album 12 Diyamanta (12 Diamond), with all lyrics written by Gloria herself, was released. CD was certified gold. She performed in Hall 1 of NDK in Sofia (National Palace of Culture, one of the largest concert halls in Bulgaria), for a big concert. Later the same year, she also performed on an open-air concert in her natal city Ruse, in front of 25000 persons. 2001 : Gloria was the first Bulgarian pop-folk singer invited to perform in the UK, in London concert hall Astoria. She gave a special concert for promotion of her new album Iluziya at i-Club, in front of more than 1000 fans. On December 27, Gloria and her husband went to the USA, where performed for the 2nd time in front of expatriate Bulgarian. Gloria spent in the beginning of 2002 in Chicago. After a change of look, she came back on 15th of March. Two days before her arrival, a concert for the birthday of Nov Folk magazine took place. During this event, Gloria was given three awards : Album of the Year, Best Accomplishments, Original Media Presence. Gloria started working over the videos of the songs from her last album Iliuzia (Illusion). The first one is Liuboven dazhd (Love rain), which totally differed from everything Gloria had done so far and was positively received by the public. On May 19th, Gloria went to Spain to perform at the first Bulgarian pop-folk concert in Alcada city. 2 days after, Tele Madrid brodacasted a report about the concert and an interview with Gloria. On May 24th, along with Desislava and Slavka Kalcheva, she gave a concert in Greece at Iera Odos. In July, together with Ilia, she gave a concert in Tel Aviv, Israel. In October 2002, at the International Plovdiv Fair, M-tel awarded the most famous voices of Bulgaria : Lili Ivanova (pioneer of Bulgarian music), Nicki Kanchev (popular TV man) and Gloria. She did not release any album in 2002, but she toured a lot in Bulgaria and abroad. 2003 : album Krepost (Fortress) was released on CD and DVD (with videoclips directed by Ludmil Illarionov and Nikolai Nankov). 2004 : in March, she presented a duet with Azis entitled Ne sme bezgreshni (Not our fault), specially recorded for New Folk concert. No video was shot for this song. She toured across Bulgaria with 6 other Payner pop-folk stars. To celebrate her 10 years of carreer, Gloria compiled all her best songs on a double album : 10 Godini, released during the summer. 2005 : it was time for a new studio album, entitled Vlyubena v Zhivota (In Love with Life). In September, Gloria again gave a recital at the festival Pirin Folk, where she also received an honorary prize for contributing to Bulgarian music's development. At the end of the year, Gloria was the first Bulgarian pop folk star to perform in a concert in Australia. 2006 : Gloria shot not less than 5 videoclips. One of them was a collaboration song with popular Serbian group Luna. 2007 : Her studio album Blagodarya was released in Bulgaria in March, and it sold over 16,000 original copies within the first week of release. It contained many danceable tracks, such as Grad Na Greha (which was at first composed under the working title Gorietchta Notcha, then renamed to fit the videoclip's sponsor Sin City, an underwear brand in which Gloria had some shares) and Sezoni (videoclip was shot in Varna, in Zornitza Sands resort). Album also contained a duet whith her daughter Simona. During the first half of 2007, she joined the jury of the first Bulgarian season of real-TV show Music Idol. 2009 : Gloria released a triple album for her 15 years of carreer : 15 Godini, just one day before her solo concert on October 22nd, where she presented her new videoclip, Hipnoza. 2010 : in February, she contributed to a charity project to raise funds for earthquake victims in Haiti. At the end of the year, she took part, for the second time, to charity event Bulgarian Christmas. 2011 : Gloria's new album was entitled Imam nuzhda ot teb (I need you). Simona, her daughter, started a musical carreer. They recorded together the song Imam nuzhda ot teb.
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Latest Gloria news21/09/2013 : Gloria's new song is a ballad entitled Pyasachni Kuli (Пясъчни кули, meaning tower of sand). Videoclip was directed by Liudmil Illarionov. A few days before, some videoclips for new songs were published, for folk songs such as Vrano Konche, Pyteki, Pusta Hubost, Ah Kade E Moito Libe, Koi Ushi Bairaka, Vseki Si Plashta. 12/04/2013 : Gloria is currently taking part to third edition of real-TV dance show "Dancing Stars" with a dancer called Svetlio Dimitrov. She is sponsored by sunglasses brand Kwiat. She just revealed 2 new songs : Puls and Ubivash na myasto. 14/10/2012 : Gloria's new single Dvoina Igra video will premiere on PlanetaHD tomorrow October 15th. Videoclip was shot in the Netherlands and in former Korean Embassy in Sofia. 13/09/2012 : Gloria's new single will be entitled Dvoina Igra. Links to GloriaOfficial websites Gloria official Bulgarian website Fansites
DISCLAIMER : unless you see the artist's name among the credits of this biography, it was only created by gathering infos from the web and from fan sources. Sorry if, even if I did all verifications I could, some parts of the biography are false or lack accuracy. If you are the artist himself or contributed to the project, please wait till I come back from holidays.
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