World's most talented granny

Valya Balkanska is 65 y.o. Bulgarian folk singer with amazing voice. In 1977 Carl Sagan, the American astronomer and physicist, sent the Rhodope singer Valya Balkanska's performance of the song "Delyu Haitutin" as a message to space. Each of the two space stations - "Voyager I" and "Voyager II", had a gold-plated gramophone record, containing the voices, whispers, songs an music pieces of our planet. On their way to Ursa Minor, the stations would fly for a period of about sixty thousand years. That in fact is the highest recognition for the vocal talent of Valya Balkanska. The Rhodope woman with the beautiful voice, the descendant of the glorious Orpheus, is a pride to Bulgaria.

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[oapplesauce]

American culture forgets what real soul and feeling sounds like. We focus on all the negative things about our society and complain about it in our music. This is culture, this is feeling, this is musci

[honey4285]

I LOVE BULGARIA VERY MUCH

[NearEastMugwump]

Why do I get the feeling that you hate things with Jewish roots too?

[Steliyan Dumanov]

To everyone's – Please don’t tried to judge, comment and give an opinion for song, which is coming from the heart of a nation with thousands of year’s history. Just enjoy it.

[Ward Van Frost]

As good a voice as I have ever heard.  Wow.

[Kazzimirski]

The brilliance of this song doesn't exclude the music of a different kind from being as wonderful. This song was put on the golden on the Golden Voyager Record to show the magnificence of our cultures, but not only this. There was also a recording of Senegalese drumming and modern music like Chuck Berry. Those who assembled the record knew that their are many different beautiful cultures and styles. The fact that you can't understand this shows your ignorance.

[deicidalRuffian]

Way to ruin an awesome song with racist bile. Jackass.

[Evan Kendal]

with a sprinkle of racist for good measure

[Ameretat010]

I was so entranced, I actually attempted to fav this twice... :) And to all those classical purists among us: Sure, Bach is a titan, but there comes a time when I get tired of the same old 4/4 or 6/8. Harmony and clever contrapuntal voice-leading aren't the only elements with emotional impact, you know. When it comes to rhythms and time sigs, western European music is actually quite poor, in my opinion. And percussion instruments are virtually absent from the "elevated" stuff like baroque & co.

[HaarigeSache86]

all slavic etno songs sound like that besides russia they suck

[youdru]

@jackburton2009, I love Bulgarian music too, it's absolutely my favorite folk music, completely otherworldly. However your comment about music w/African origins seems pretty racist. Civilization was born on the African continent, so music was pretty much invented there. And there are many incredible and beautiful African traditions I can point your towards.