Orlin Pavlov

Between the Plovdiv opera house and the German touring circuit, Orlin Pavlov sang Puccini and Bizet in the early 2000s: Tosca and La bohème in Plovdiv in 2001 and 2002, then Carmen with Opera Classica through Germany and Austria, in Stuttgart, Esslingen and Mannheim among other cities. Born on 23 April 1979 in Sofia, he became in 2002 the lead singer of the pop group Kaffe, which took Bulgaria to the Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv in 2005 with the song Lorraine, and in 2006 began a solo career with Dream On. He won Dancing with the Stars in 2008 and VIP Brother in 2012, sat on the jury of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest held in Bulgaria in 2015, and toured the United States in 2014. Acting followed the singing: the series House Arrest and Reward, the leading role in Nikolay Iliev's film Living Legends in 2014, and the Bulgarian dubbing of Max in The Secret Life of Pets in 2016 and of the Beast in Beauty and the Beast in 2017.