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130 years since the birth of unforgettable Gyurga Pindzhurova

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On April 18, exactly 130 years ago, Bulgarian opera and folk singer Gyurga Pindzhurova was born in the town of Tran.

Having sung her mother's songs since childhood, Gyurga Pindzhurova began studying at the State Music School in Sofia in 1917 with great Bulgarian singer Hristina Morfova. Later, as a state scholarship holder, she graduated in opera singing at the Prague Conservatory. After returning to Bulgaria, Gyurga Pindzhurova actively performed. In her first concert in Bulgaria in 1921, she performed arias from operas and arrangements of folk songs.
She taught singing in Sofia, Tran and the surrounding villages. She made her first gramophone recordings of arias, art and folk songs for the Bulgarian National Radio, at that time Radio Sofia.

Gyurga Pindzhurova left us on November 10, 1971, but remains in history as one of our most famous and artistic singers with a characteristically profound approach to folk art.




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