Lumières du chant byzantin



1) Divna Stancheva (born May 19, 1997 in Ruse, Bulgaria) commonly known as Divna (Bulgarian: Дивна) is a Bulgarian pop/hip-hop singer from Ruse, Bulgaria. She was born in 1997, and in 2007, when she was only 10, she starred in the Bulgarian music reality called Sing With Me. Since then, she has become famous all over Bulgaria. She made her first single with the Bulgarian singer( also her partner in Sing With Me) Miro. Her second single and most popular song so far, is the song I ti ne mojesh da me spresh (feat. Miro & Krisko). 2) Divna Ljubojević (Serbian: Дивна Љубојевић, was born in 1970 in Belgrade, Serbia then part of the SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian singer and conductor of Orthodox Christian sacred music of various languages. She studied at the Mokranjac Music School and also graduated from the Novi Sad Musical Academy. She practised in the Vavedenje (Serbian: Ваведење Пресвете Богородице, Presentation of the Holy Theotokos) monastery, near Belgrade, where trained by the sisters, she acquired the unique style derived from Karlovatz singing. In 1988 Ljubojević started conducting the Mokranjac choir. She also conducted the First Belgrade Singing Society between years 1989 and 1991, becoming the youngest conductor in its history.Ljubojević has been also an active teacher of church and choir singing in France, Netherlands and England. In 1991 she founded the Melodi ensemble, composed of 10 singers. Today Ljubojevic and Melodi are popular music performers, with a musical tours in many places worldwide but mostly in Eastern and Western Europe; they have given more than 600 concerts in Europe. Lykourgos Angelopoulos, professor at the School of Byzantine Chant at the Conservatory of Athens, founder and director of the Greek Byzantine Choir and Archon Protopsaltes of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, has described her as having one of the purest voices he has ever heard. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.