![]() ![]() ![]() The second group are the Yerlii, singers and dancers and shoe makers. The Kalderash who are the businessmen and are the highest class. In Bulgaria there’s three groups of Gypsies. #Azis concert bulgaria movie#“I’d had an idea to make a movie about the Gypsies so I knew something of them. His manager Krum Krumov, crop headed and heavily muscled, provides coffee and cigarettes, fires questions at me (“how” and “why” does London know of and want to talk to his charge) and recalls Azis coming to him wanting to succeed. damn, Bulgaria really is one weird nation. Which makes me wonder: Azis as light entertainment. #Azis concert bulgaria tv#Arriving at Azis’s management offices in central Sofia we’re informed Azis is running late: he’s filming a spot on the nation’s leading light-entertainment TV show and shooting is delayed. Rumi rang his manager who guaranteed an interview. As were melodies from Greek, Serbian, Turkish, Egyptian and Bollywood songs, Azis adding lyrics (in Bulgarian and Romani) and a twisted eroticism: the beefy Gypsy boy transgressed into a symbol of the new Balkan night.įor the nation’s hottest singer Azis is remarkably easy to contact. For the AZIS 2002 album he was appearing in saris and belly dance costumes, high heels on his feet, bleach in his hair, chest and armpits shaved. His metamorphosis into the most controversial entertainer in Bulgarian history involved a daemonic appearance shift and videos so lurid, so hallucinated with desire, they leave efforts by The Prodigy and Marilyn Manson gathering MTV dust. Initially Azis resembled a chubby, youthful Andre Agassi (big hair & stubble) and was viewed as just another Gypsy chalga singer, albeit one with a beguiling vocal style, his voice pitched high and keening. Winked at it too: I imagine he appreciates a man in uniform. Indeed, I doubt if older he would have actively opposed Zhivkov’s regime. Check it: nothing (and no one) else in Bulgaria has quite so brazenly rejected the numbing greyness of official Bulgarian ‘culture’, one so long proscribed. What is Azis? He’s a Gypsy chalga singer. ![]()
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