User:Malele2092/Stoyan Zahariev

Stoyan Todorov Zachariev (pseudonym – Steven Zachary) is a pop singer, songwriter, and producer. He is the first Bulgarian pop star, gained international success with his personally written hit song, and is a genuine blue-eyed soul artist. His “Angelica" became a sensation across continents and rapidly reached more than two million sales in the USA, Europe, and South America, which in turn brought him international recognition as a writer, arranger, producer, and performer.

Biography
He is born March 17th, 1965, in Plovdiv.

The glare of the spotlight and the microphone have attracted him ever since he was a child. Back then, in his neighborhood, he was known as "the Little Tom Jones" because of his ceaseless attempts to imitate the big star. At the age of 10, he started taking guitar lessons, and five years later, he started his first ever band "Gamma 5".

He was admitted to the Estrade Department of the Bulgarian Conservatory in the class of Angel Zaberski in 1984. Soon, the first recordings, established secretly on the Bulgarian Radio, appeared - "Someday" and "Hold On", which were recorded by him in Plovdiv.

In 1991, he released his first maxi-single with four songs, including "Angelica" and "Homebound", which reached John Peel at BBC and received favorable reviews with the help of Toma Sprostranov. "Angelica" became a big disco hit only at the end of 1992. This encouraged him to release his debut album, which also had a success among DJs in Bulgaria. "Sexy Magic Woman" was declared one of the hits of 1994. It was followed by two singles: "What a Night" and "Maria"/97. In 1997 he prepared a demo album "Good Life (About My Friends)", presented at the 1998 MIDEM annual exhibition in Cannes by the Dutch company "To Co International".

The song "Another Broken Heart", with which he appeared at the first "The Sound of Passport" contest, won the second prize. Along with the project "Good Life" they form the basis of the new album "Indigo". In his concerts and recordings in 1998, Stoyan Zachariev used first-class musicians such as Angel Zaberski-son, Vladimir Karparov, Kalin Velov, etc.