90s pop-folk icon Sashka Vaseva, known as "Dupnishka Madonna", is celebrating today is his 58th birthday.
She was born Alexandra Asenova Vaseva on October 12, 1966 in Dupnitsa.
She graduated in music pedagogy at the Southwest University in Blagoevgrad. Not a hereditary musician. Her mother works as a shopkeeper and her father is an artelchik. She has dreamed of becoming an actress since childhood. Her idol is Romy Schneider.
Her career began in 1994 and was associated with the “Pirin Folk“ festival. On this stage for years she has been among the most desired, acclaimed and awarded singers. From this festival in 1995, her hit "I can't forget you, Georgi" was released.
In the spring of 1996, a concert-contest was organized in Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture for a performer and hit of 1995 at the “Star of the Folk Fair” (television broadcast on BNT 1). The viewers chose Sashka Vaseva as the star of the year with her hit "I can't forget you, Georgi".
In the second half of the 90s, Sashka Vaseva gained more and more admirers. Because of his frankness and responsiveness, he became a favorite not only of the people, but also of journalists in the media. The holey Madonna gives a lot of interviews. Many critics claim that it was Sashka Vaseva, along with Mustafa Chaushev and Tony Dacheva, who started pop-folk as a genre in the country.
She hosted an evening show for a while. In 2009, he participated in the dance reality show on Nova TV “VIP Dance“.
In 2016, she stated in a TV show on bTV that she was disowning her name and had applied to the court to do so. She wants to be called Alexandra Bakardzhieva – male surname. She also states that she no longer wishes to be a celebrity, is ashamed of her career as a folk singer and wants to be forgotten.
In September 2017, he participated in VIP Brother.
Since 2013, Vaseva has been living with the diagnosis of “atrophy of the optic nerve“ and cannot see with one eye. In 2020, the singer became completely blind, and in October 2021 she was diagnosed with a brain tumor, but the doctors' prognosis was favorable. He underwent a major operation, after which he successfully recovered and continued his treatment.
Sashka Vaseva has been married to Hristo Bakardjiev since 1999. They have a son and a daughter – Hristo-Nicolas and Christina-Elena.
In 2022, she played a hologram of a singer in Teodor Ushev's film “F1.618“