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The unforgettable Lyubka Rondova and her song “Smilyana”

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Lyubka Rondova is a singer who will always be remembered with much appreciation and admiration.

She dedicated her entire life to Bulgarian folk singing, she would even say that these songs were her children, so she treasured them and gifted them to her audience.

Born in Shestevo village in Aegean Macedonia in 1936, on 24 August she would have turned 85.

“Smilyana” is the song the unforgettable Lyubka Rondova considered to be her calling card.








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