Yıldız İbrahimova performed at the Jazz Festival in Niš, 1996
Yıldız İbrahimova (Bulgarian: Йълдъз Ибрахимова, Yaldaz Ibrahimova, Turkish: Yıldız İbrahimova; born 1952 in Silistra) is a Bulgarian singer of Turkish ancestry. Besides jazz, she has also recorded Bulgarian, Turkish, Gypsy and Russian folk songs. She married Ali Dinçer, a Turkish politician, also born in Bulgaria and former mayor of Ankara, in 1993. Since then she has lived in Turkey. Her husband died in 2007.[1][2]
Yildiz Ibrahimova has participated in tours in over 40 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, Australia and Africa.[3]
Albums
Her records include the following albums:
(1979) Turkish Folk Songs, LP, Balkanton, Sofia-Bulgaria
(1981) Naissus Jazz-81-LP, Discos, Nish-Serbia
(1987) Jazz and Something More, LP, Balkanton
(1987 The Girl with Lovely Eyes, LP, Balkanton
(1990) Illusory Eternity, LP, Balkanton
(1991) Paris -Zagreb, with Antoine Herve quintet, CD-DEUX Z, Paris, France
(1992) Illusory Eternıty, CD, Balkanton
(1992) Hard way to Freedom -with Anatoly Vapirov - AVA Records, Sofia, Bulgaria
(1995) Ișığın Sesi (Voice of Rainbow)- Raks Music, Istanbul, Turkey
(1997) Balkanatolia feat. Ivo Papasov, Raks Music, Istanbul
(1999) Marcanja e Romeskere Gilya (Songs of the Gypsy), Universal Music Turkey
(2000) Marcanja-Songs of the Gypsy, Virginia Records-Universal Music Bulgaria
