Valya Balkanska

Valya Balkanska
Background information
Birth nameFeyme Kestebekova
Born (1942-01-08) 8 January 1942 (age 82)
Arda, Kingdom of Bulgaria
GenresFolk
OccupationSolo singer
Years active1960–present

Valya Mladenova Balkanska (Bulgarian: Валя Младенова Балканска; born 8 January 1942) is a Bulgarian folk music singer from the Rhodope Mountains known locally for her wide repertoire of Balkan folk songs, but in the West mainly for singing the song "Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin", part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977.