{"id":1715,"date":"2016-05-24T15:02:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T12:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/history.discoveryfest.com\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2016-05-24T15:02:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T12:02:16","slug":"bulgaria-won-for-the-first-time-the-discovery-song-contest-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/history.discoveryfest.com\/en\/news\/bulgaria-won-for-the-first-time-the-discovery-song-contest-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria won for the first time the Discovery Song Contest in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Todor

Todor Georgiev sings the winner song at the end<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2016 Bulgaria won for the first time the Discovery Song Contest. The festival took place in Varna, Bulgaria, from 19-th to 23rd<\/sup> May. The winner song \u201eTill the end\u201d was performed by it\u2019s author, the young singer Todor Georgiev \u2013 Toshey, known by the Bulgarian audience for his participation in Voice of Bulgaria finals. The famous Bulgarian musician and composer Evgeni Dimitrov- Maestro, won the prize for arrangement for same song.<\/p>\n

Todor, who\u2019s birthday was in the festival day, was awarded with the WAFA (World Association of festivals and artists) Award. \u00a0The managing team of WAFA was in Varna for the Annual Executive Board WAFA Meeting. WAFA gave a second WAFA award to Dimitry Sysoev from Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\"Dimitry

Dimitry Sysoev<\/p><\/div>\n

The second prize was for the song <\/strong>\u201d<\/strong>Fog<\/strong>\u201d, performed by one of the song\u2019s authors, Dimitry Sysoev from Ukraine. The third place in the Song contest won Spain with the song \u201e<\/strong>Me<\/strong> hace<\/strong> falta<\/strong>\u201d,<\/strong> performed by Juanjo Lopez, author of the song.<\/p>\n

\"Juanjo

Juanjo Lopez (Spain)<\/p><\/div>\n

In the International Performers\u2019 Constest the International Jury with Chairman Georgi Hristov, didn\u2019t give award for the First place.<\/p>\n

\"Jessika

Jessika (Malta) and Cristi Nistor (Romania)<\/p><\/div>\n

Second<\/strong> became Jessika from Malta, who won also Best female vocal and her song Hypnotica won the Prize of Bulgarian National Radio \u2013 Radio Varna. The other holder of the second prize is Cristi Nistor from Romania, who won also Award for Best studio mix and the song \u201cBroken\u201d, performed by him, won the Online voting<\/strong> with 14\u00a0000 votes out of 50\u00a0000. Author of the song is Tolga Gurdil from Turkey.<\/p>\n

\"Angel

Angel Bonilla (Philippines) and Sharif Umkhanov (Russia)<\/p><\/div>\n

On third place in Best performers contest<\/strong> were awarded Angel Bonilla from Philippines, who took also the Special Award for idviduality<\/strong>\u00a0 and the Russian Sharif Umkhanov, who became Best male vocal<\/strong> and won the Prize of the audience<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Nebi<\/p>\n

Nebi Birgi from Turkey was awarded as most artistic performer<\/strong>, universal talent<\/strong> and favorite of Media Jury<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Figen

Figen Cakmak (Turkey) and Mirela Fugaru (Romania)<\/p><\/div>\n

Awards<\/strong> for<\/strong> best<\/strong> lyrics<\/strong> went to Figen Cakmak from Turkey for the song \u201cLonely nights, lonely dreams\u201d and Mirela Fugaru from Romania for the song \u201cBroken\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Tia

Tia Pax (Molodva)<\/p><\/div>\n

In the Dance song Category<\/strong>, the award was given to the song \u201cMine\u201d, performed by Tia Pax from Moldova, <\/strong>and in the Contemporary Ballad \u00a0Category <\/strong>the winner song was \u201cLonely nights, lonely dreams\u201d composed by Mine Mucur from Turkey.<\/p>\n

\"Leo

Leo Guisti (Italy)<\/p><\/div>\n

Winner in the International Radio Contest <\/strong>became the song \u201cNel Buoto\u201d, performed by one of the authors Leo Guisti.<\/p>\n

\"Dinda

Dinda Sepryani (Indonesia)<\/p><\/div>\n

As Most charismatic performer<\/strong> was awarded Dinda Septriyani from Indonesia and Ralluca Sofrone from Romania won received the award Most perspective young perfomer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Ralluca

Ralluca Sofrone (Romania)<\/p><\/div>\n

The award of Novelty was given to Constantino Vetere from Italy.<\/p>\n

\"Constantino

Constantino Vetere (Italy)<\/p><\/div>\n

Special guests in festival program were the Bulgarian star Georgi Hristov, the Romanian star Mihai Traistariu, the Polish Jazz perfomer Marius Szaban, the winners in previous Discovery editions Nikolay Manolov and Duet Mania and the small singers of Children Vocal Studio Yes from Varna.<\/p>\n

\"Georgi

Georgi Hristov<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Mihai

Mihai Traistariu<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Nikolay

Nikolay Manolov<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Duet

Duet Mania<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Children

Children Vocal Studio YES<\/p><\/div>\n

In the Discovery International Pop Music Festival until now participated over 60 countries from all continents.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2016 Bulgaria won for the first time the Discovery Song Contest. The festival took place in Varna, Bulgaria, from 19-th to 23rd May. The winner song \u201eTill the end\u201d was performed by it\u2019s author, the young singer Todor Georgiev \u2013 Toshey, known by the Bulgarian audience for his participation in Voice of Bulgaria finals. The famous Bulgarian musician and composer Evgeni Dimitrov- Maestro, won the prize for arrangement for same song. Todor, who\u2019s birthday was in the festival day, was awarded with the WAFA (World Association of festivals and artists) Award. \u00a0The managing team of WAFA was in Varna for the Annual Executive Board WAFA Meeting. WAFA gave a second WAFA award to Dimitry Sysoev from Ukraine. The second prize was for the song \u201dFog\u201d, performed by one of the song\u2019s authors, Dimitry Sysoev from Ukraine. The third place in the Song contest won Spain with the song \u201eMe Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.discoveryfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.discoveryfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.discoveryfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.discoveryfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.discoveryfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/history.discoveryfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"https:\/\/history.discoveryfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.discoveryfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.discoveryfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.discoveryfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.discoveryfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}