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Sofi Marinova (Sofia Marinova Kamenova) is a Bulgarian Pop-folk and Ethnic singer of Romani heritage. She is one of the most popular singers in Bulgaria, famed for her extreme five-octave vocal range. She has won multiple music awards and contests. Her album "Stari Rani" is supposed to be one of the best-selling music albums in Bulgaria. In February 2012 she won the Eurovision Bulgarian National final thus becoming the representative of Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku to be held in May 2012 with the song Love Unlimited.

Early life and struggles
Sofi Marinova was born on December 5, 1970 in Etropole, Bulgaria. She showed signs of musical and dancing talent at a quite early age (whe she was 2 years old) and her mother was the one to give her her first lessons in singing and dancing. At school Sofi was an excellent student. She spent a year at a specialized school for building constructors After her 8th grade she moved to a specialized school for tailors, though years later she confesses she was never good at sewing. While being at school Sofi fell for acting, taking part in school musicals for Snow White and many other tale characters.When she was at her 10th grade musicians from the local orchestra offered her the position of a lead vocalist and appealed to her father. He declined the offering at first but later agreed under the insistence of her mother:"I started crying and my mother supported me, because when she married to my father she put an end to her singing career".

At the age of 17 Sofi began singing for weddings and christenings and her repertoire included songs of Dragana Mirkovic, Michael Jackson, Sandra (singer), Whitney Huston and Romani music. It was around this time when she took part with her orchestra in a competition in singing in the village of Osikovitsa, Sofia. She won the contest for singers with the jury, led by famous Romani-Bulgarian musician Angelo Malikov, expressing its admiration for Sofi's vocal capabilities. This was the place where she met Peter, the father of her only child Lorenzo, who at that time was the drummer of one of the other orchestras there. Later she won the big award at the Stara Zagora festival with her songs "Stari Rani" and "Slantschitse moe".

Sofi was introduced to the big stage by Nencho Kasamov, president of record company ARA Music. He came across her while being in a restaurant where Sofi was working as a singer. Kasamov invited her to make some recordings in ARA, because he sensed the future music star in her by the look in her eyes. Sofi and her band recorded in ARA the album "Stari Rani", who is believed to be one of the best-selling music albums in Bulagaria of all time. Later she recorded two solo projects - albums "Edinstven Moy" and "Moyat san". Her next album was planned to contain Romani songs and she got an offering to sing 4 of the songs with the band Super Express though it actually happened that they recorded the whole album together.

She started to work for Sunny Music in 2004, being produced by Krum Krumov. She recorded there her albums "5 Oktavi ljubov" and "Obicham". She met there Bulgarian hip-hop singer Ustata, collaboration with whom are some of her most famous songs. It was also in that period of time that she recorded a cover version of "Vetrove" by Bulgarian most established and well-known singer Lili Ivanova with Romani lyrics. In 2009 a compilation with her 64 most popular songs was released - "Sofi Marinova Best MP3 Collection". "I am very happy that my project was accomplished and I hope my fans accept it as a gift for their loyalty and love for me for so many years. Now I am ready to move forward and continue recording even better songs" - she shared with the media.

В музикалната компания започва съвместната си дейност и с рапъра Устата, с когото с хитовете си бързо се изстрелват начело по рейтинг в музикалните класации. Звездите на Сънни Мюзик поставят началото на своята съвместна дейност с тоталния летен хит „Бурята в сърцето ми” още през далечната 2006 год. Същата година се нареждат на чело на музикалните класации с дуетното парче „Точно ти”. На следващата 2007 год. за пореден път изненадват своите фенове с песента „Мой си дяволе”, която излиза и на руски език със заглавието „Я твая”. С нея двамата изпълнители вземат участие в един от най-прочутите музикални конкурси – Евровизия. Следва поредния летен хит – „Дива любов”. По-късно е издаден и R’n’B ремикс на песента. През 2008 год. Софи Маринова и Устата създават още две нови попълнения към съвместния си репертоар: „Чужди устни” и „Толкова силно”. На следващата 2009 год. участието им в шоу предаването Vip Brother ги вдъхновява за създаването на дуета „Бате шефе”. Последното им дуетно парче носи името „Любов ли бе”, която заедно с „Чужди устни” е посветена на борбата с трафика на хора.