Mariana Popova

A Sofia singer who came up through the group Cocomania in the second half of the 1990s, Mariana Popova won first prize at the Burgas and the Sea festival in 2005 and the following spring represented Bulgaria at the Eurovision Song Contest in Athens with Let Me Cry. She records in Bulgarian and in Spanish, and has worked in television, among other things as a coach on the first series of The Voice of Bulgaria in 2011. In 2015 she sang four pop and rock programmes with the State Opera Ruse and the Ruse Philharmonic, popular repertoire including ABBA in orchestral arrangement.