BIOGRAPHY
Desi Slava was born in to a family of a miner and a laboratory assistant. As a child, DesiSlava was quite naughty and wild, and she practised karate and she dreamed of becoming a policewoman.
She was in 5th grade when she discovered her talent for singing slow folk songs. At 14, she won first prize - at the competition 'Slaveiche' at 'Stara Zagora' radio station. In the 9th grade, she attended a folk group in Galabovo.
Her first album 'I have no problems' was released by 'Payner Studio' in 1998. The dominant style is dance rhythm, carefree and optimistic. It includes 11 songs - 5 were composed and written by DesiSlava herself. After the release of the album, the singer enjoyed more and more fans and attended a considerable number of musical activities.
The year 2000 is especially successful for Desi. She went to USA to take part in the arts championship in LA. She competed in two categories - for the performance of the folk song 'Jenala e dyulber Yana' and of one of Whitney Houston's songs. People from 30 countries took part in the competition. DesiSlava won the bronze medal in the competition for pop music.
After her coming back to Bulgaria, she started working on a new album. Meanwhile the song "White Nights" gained huge popularity and nowadays it's believed that this is song is the greatest in the pop-folk genre.
Her popularity raised constantly. In 2007 Desi along with her collegue Azis took part in the reality show – ‘VIP Brother 2’. Her presence in the show is memorable.
She starts producing activity in 2009 and launched her own independent music TV channel, called DSTV, which gives opportunity for expression of the new Bulgarian artists to show their products. A year and a half later, she sold the television channel so she could pay more attention to her music career. In July 2014 the singer was chosen to be a coach in the third season of the reality talent show "The Voice of Bulgaria" on bTV. The reality format was won by Kristina Ivanova, who was a singer in her team.
