Artist Info: Yanka Rupkina

Yanka Rupkina (Янка Рупкина) played a major role in the growing popularity of Balkan music in the 1980s. Together with Stoyanka Boneva and Eva Georgieva, Rupkina formed the Trio Bulgarka, a vocal group affiliated with Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares.

The Trio Bulgarka gained international prominence through their contributions to the groundbreaking 1975 Bulgarian folk music album "Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Volume 1", originally released on the Swiss label Disques Cellier and later reissued on British 4AD Records. [read more...]