The 10-year-old Simona Stateva, from Razgrad, won three gold medals at the Ninth Annual World Championship of the Performing Arts 2005 taking place in Hollywood, USA, August 8th ? 14th. The young charmer performed two songs, compilation of a typical folklore song. The audience was enchanted as were the 20 members of the jury?
So far BG representatives in that world championship have been Valya Blaknaska, Georgi Hristov, Petya Bouyuklieva and Krassimir Avramov.