On April 24, Lili Ivanova will celebrate her 82nd birthday. This is the only day of the year when the 43-kilogram singer, known for her spartan regime, discipline and professionalism, eats a cake.
The days before her most personal holiday are an occasion to take stock of the pop prima. Probably, as on every birthday, Lily will remain locked in her fortress on Oborishte Street and will not celebrate. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the singer has reduced her contacts for a year. The singer of the eternal hit “Camino” organizes her meetings in her office in the Tuzar cooperative next to the mall “Serdika”, where her neighbor is the football legend Dimitar Berbatov.
Lily frankly admits that she has only cried three times in her life
when she buried her father Ivan, then her mother Maria and after her concert in the Parisian hall “Olympia” 11 years ago – the most spectacular event in her life. “My producer Stefan Zashev and Martin Karbovski rushed to the dressing room and asked me:” Why are you crying, aren’t you happy? ” I replied, “I am satisfied. But I imagine what they will flood me with in Bulgaria. ” Two days later, I read thousands of nonsense about me. There is no such people! There is no such country! Who has complexes, treat them. My grandmother used to say, “No one left this world without paying,” Lily said.
The singer claims that a series of small signs prompted her to want to take singing seriously. One is an accidentally overheard conversation between her future first husband Georgi Pavlov and his colleague that she has talent and could gain fame and money from music. Another sign is an encouraging prediction by hand from an adult gypsy. Even while studying to be a nurse, the dark-skinned Cassandra met her and asked to look at her hand. “Everyone will know you, everyone will know your name,” the fortune teller predicted.
The greatest drama in the life of the Eternal Amber is the absence of a child. Over the years, Lily has been repeatedly criticized for being able to raise several children, but she did not. “Not that I didn’t want to have children. I can’t! ”Lily revealed the reason. In her biographical book The Truth, written by Martin Karbowski, she frankly shares that her life hung in the balance due to a miscarriage, after which she underwent surgery and was forever deprived of being a mother. “Twice I lost a child, once I would even die like a dog. I have had two surgeries since an ectopic pregnancy. This is my drastic story! I was not known then. I had my first abortion during a concert in Razlog. I lost a lot of blood. They wouldn’t spill on me. I survived on the edge. The second time I traveled to Lovech. The doctors operated on me with suspicion of appendicitis, but when they opened me, they saw that I was bleeding. I had two surgeries then, one of which removed my fallopian tubes. On the third day I was left without water and I went blind. I had been accommodated in the corridor. They fixed me on the edge “, Lily shared in her memoirs.
She lost her first child during her first marriage to Dr. Georgi Pavlov. The second was the result of her love with her second husband – the musician Ivan Peev. Due to her childlessness, the pop star lost her biggest and longest love – the one with the singer Asen Gargov. The musician is the only man who abandons Lily and is not abandoned by her. At the same time, he did it not very gentlemanly – on the phone and only after proposing marriage to another woman, 18 years younger than him.
“I dumped Lily Ivanova because she couldn’t give birth to my child,” the late Gargov revealed the reason for his dramatic breakup with the pop singer. After a 16-year relationship, before returning from a tour in Germany, he called to tell her that he had decided to get married, but for another. “I wanted to have a child, and Lily couldn’t have children. I am a man, it is normal to want to have a generation after me. I couldn’t adopt someone else’s child. I don’t mind people who have trouble adopting, but that was not my case. I wanted my genetic sequel, my blood. And I found Daniela, my wife. This is a girl who agreed in all the scandals to reunite with me and give birth to a gorgeous son. I suggested to Lily that we continue to work together, not to give up the work we had. I offered her to make a music production house called Lili Ivanova. I am convinced that today she would own the most powerful production company in Bulgaria. She did not agree at all “, the musician revealed. Before he died of cancer in 2017, the author of the anthems of the “gentle revolution” – “Give me a divorce”, admitted that his former burn cursed him. When he informed her that he was getting married, Lily hissed words into his telephone receiver that the musician was afraid to repeat. “When the time comes, I’ll tell them,” Gargata said succinctly. However, he left without saying what Lily’s oath was.
After Gargov, the primate of the native stage did not have such a long cordial relationship. What’s more, she even says that the men in her life are only a temporary phenomenon. Indeed, a series of tragedies have occurred one after another in Gargov’s life. His brother Dimitar got drunk brutally and died of a stroke shortly after his 60th birthday, in 2008. Before that, the alcohol and cigarette shop that the two brothers kept at the Women’s Market in Sofia went bankrupt. And a year before Mitko left this world, their father Nikola also died. Assen Gargov himself also experienced a period of difficulties, losses and setbacks. He tried to open a music studio on the capital’s Solni Pazar, selling a hereditary plot of land in Pancharevo for $ 15,000. Then Gargov buried his mother Nadezhda. He himself died of cancer after a long battle with the insidious disease, and Lily did not even honor him with a flower at his funeral. According to rumors, one of his last wishes was for the singer not to step on his departure.
According to urban legends, he and Assen were about to get married and Lily went to Vanga to ask her if she would marry for the fourth time. They had just decided with Asen Gargov to legalize their civil relationship. However, the Rupite prophetess told Lily that she would be very unhappy with a womanizer like Gargata. She saw no future for them as a couple. “Don’t marry anymore, three men are enough for you! The more times you get married, the more you get divorced, ”said Cassandra from Petrich. The singer of “Fairs” listened to her.
The singer’s life is marked by many love affairs, but Ivan Peev is the only man she loved. After the composer’s death, the pop star published a photo of them together, to which he wrote “Rest in peace, Vanko!” The famous violinist, pianist, arranger and composer is the only one of her ex-husbands with whom Lily maintains a warm relationship until his last moment. “I like to show my respect to people who deserve it,” admits the famous singer.
They are divorcing because of Lily’s attraction to Peko Takov’s son – Yancho. Her love affair ends with marriage №3 for Lily.
Despite her long coexistence with Chocho Vladovski and Asen Gargov, Lily did not respect the funeral of any of them. She paid last respects only to her second husband Ivan Peev. Out of respect for his wife, the singer did not attend his funeral, but sent a wreath of flowers, wrote Weekend.
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