A dream come true for young singer Niya Petrova: Singing like in the movies

published on 10/29/16 10:15 AM

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Niya Petrovais a talented young singer with a natural gift. She was born to the family of writer Konstantin Petrov, twin brother of leading lyrics writer Alexander Petrov who has contributed to the careers of several generations of pop and rock singers. She has been studying at Sofia University for a major in Social Activities. And though she has no academic music training, she has got a remarkable voice. The first who helped the young singer were her uncle Alexander Petrov and Veselin Todorov, composer and singer from the band Factor. They wrote her first song with which she shared a third place with pop star Orlin Goranov at the Sofia Singing Festival 2016. Niya presented the song Something's Wrong. Today she already has five songs written by leading songwriters. The lyrics are by Alexander Petrov and they are part of a joint project of journalist Ivan Garelov with the motto Songs for Awakening. In 2015 Niya became famous as the voice of the young with her piece The Terminal. Its lyrics are socially engaging.

More about her quests and the project Songs for Awakening- from young singer Niya Petrova:

„The project we are working on with Ivan Garelov is meant to put forward social issues and urge people to look around and see what's happening. So we called is Songs for Awakening. It is very important how people will respond to it. I first sang on stage in 2013. I felt nervous to appear together with bands such as Tanga, Factor, D2 and Nelly Rangelova. I was just 17, and I sang the song Twosome of Villy Kavaldzhiev. The people were happy to see such a song revivced by a young person.”

In 2013 Niya Petrova took part in the concert Be What You Are on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Alexander Petrov at Bulgaria Hall with the song Twosome of Villy Kavaldzhiev.