Emanuela recounted the vicissitudes of her journey towards the music scene, which she had to overcome to make her wish come true.
Her parents had other plans for her, but she secretly arrived at the recording studio.
“I became a singer as a joke. I told my parents that I was going to study medicine, but at the same time I composed some songs and went to auditions. I hid from our people that I had signed a contract with a music company. When the they found out, they didn’t talk to me for almost 4 years” – said the folk star to Alex Sirchadzhieva in “Life for a real case”.
The successful singer recalls how she became popular and draws parallels to today’s pop-folk situation.
“I quickly became famous, on my third song I think. Times were different then, you could easily access the public. Now there are so many new artists, people are fed up,” explained Emanuela.
Her birth name is Emilia, but she chooses to use a stage name. She picks it quite randomly. “A newspaper arrived at the company’s headquarters, with attached a disc with the film ‘Emanuela’. I saw the CD and said: this will be my nickname,” said the 41-year-old Sofia resident.