Kamelia

Kamelia was seriously involved in singing from the start of 1997. In August of that year she signed a contract with the music company Payner in Dimitrovgrad. Her popularity was growing significantly, and performances in clubs and discos were becoming an integral part of her daily life.[5] In 1998, preparation of her debut album was completed and in September the album Fire Girl was released on the music market.[6] She made videos for the songs "Fire Girl", "Is This a Sin", "I Won't Please You", "Understand Me, Darling", "Only Tonight" and "Why I Believed". The hit "Why I Believed" from this album was a great success. This song was declared #1 by Payner and New Folk magazine in 1999. The album Fire Girl reached a circulation of 90,000 copies. These professional successes motivated Kamelia to make an even better album. On 7 December 1999, the album Goldfish appeared on the music market.[6] The first song was "No Joke", better known as 'Yahabibi'. The song occupied the top places in all charts. The album sold in record numbers.[6]

In the beginning of 2000, videos promoted some of the biggest hits of her career, "Crazy about you" and "You are" (the first black-and-white video in pop-folk). On her birthday, the singer was promoting her latest album, Goldfish, which took place in the Prikazkite complex near Harmanli.[7] In April 2000, Payner and the Bulgarian Association of Music Producers (BAMP)[8] declared the album Goldfish gold for sales.[9] Its total circulation reached 200,000 copies. 30,000 of them are on CD and this makes it the best-selling for the year in the country, and at the end of the year it even reached platinum circulation.[10]

Kamelia recorded the song "Where Are You", which appeared on the music market in the summer of 2001 and became a hit.[6] It was also the first music video to be broadcast on Planeta. At the end of the year, the singer also participated in the 3-year-old Mustang festival in Varna. She won three awards for the song "Where Are You". The singer also presented herself in the competition for a singer with the first recorded song for her upcoming album: the ballad "You're Gone".[6]

On 21 April 2002, Kamelia's third album, Something Hot, was massively promoted by Payner. The album has a record speed of sales: in the first week alone more than 10,000 copies sold.[6] The success of the album's first hit was overshadowed by another song; "Sunset and Dawn" came out as a second song from Something Hot. The hit became a folk emblem for 2002, remaining for a long time atop of all music charts. Kamelia said, "I'm really proud of 'Sunset and Dawn' because this song turned out to be the biggest hit of the year."[6] The album's third hit was the duet ballad "You Want to Come Back", in which Kamelia sings in Greek with Greek singer Sakis Kukos.[6] The song "You want me to come back" stayed in first place in the viewers' chart of Planeta TV for six weeks. While filming the video for the song in Thessaloniki, a Greek TV journalist called Kamelia the 'Bulgarian Anna Visi'.[6] On 17 November, Kamelia sang in the Oval Hall, London. She turned out to be the most popular singer in a survey conducted among Bulgarian emigrants in the British capital. So many people wanted to see Kamelia live that about 400 people remained outside the hall. 2002 was the most successful in Kamelia's career. At it end it was clear that Something Hot was the best-selling music product in Bulgaria for the year, regardless of style or company.[6]

On 14 February 2004, the album Recharge appeared on the music market. On 10 February, Kamelia was a guest on a Planeta TV show, where she appeared with her red hair. There, she repeatedly hinted that she had participated in a swimsuit photo shoot for Playboy and thus reinforced rumors that she would appear in the next issue of the magazine. For the first time in Bulgaria a national tour with the participation of pop-folk performers has been launched.[6]

On 29 June 2005, after a long wait, Kamelia's fourth solo album Ima lyubov was released. It includes the folk song "Three Years". Advertising for the album started on the day of its release. With short excerpts from the songs "Like a living wound", "There is love", "Crazy party to spin" and "Come on it" indicated the potential of the songs on the album. The pilot clip is 'Come on'.[6] At the beginning of the summer, the video for the song "You are in my heart" appeared.[6] Following this was a video of the song "There is Love", which appeared on Planeta TV on 19 January 2006.

In February 2007, Kamelia recorded the song and video "Forbidden Zone". At the annual awards of Planeta TV in February she appeared in a dress in the colors of the Bulgarian tricolor.[11] In August, the singer presented the video 'I still love you' and starred in a TV commercial for Polar Bear vodka.[12] At the end of 2007, she traveled to the United States where she toured for two months, mostly in cities with large concentration of Bulgarian immigrants.[13]

In the summer of 2008, Kamelia was part of the 5th national tour Planeta Derby 2008, and in September she became the first Bulgarian artist with a virtual album,[14] created by her fans. At the beginning of October, the video for the song "Fake Skin" was aired on Planeta TV. She marked the end of 2008 with a music tour[15] in Northern Macedonia, where she made several club appearances.

In February 2009, the video for the song "Orgasm" was shot. Shortly thereafter she received an offer to become the host of fun-humor show Big mouth,[16]on "Nova TV"[17] which is similar to the reality TV show Big brother.[18] On 23 June 2009, Planeta TV promoted Kamelia's video for the song "Black Blood", and on 30 October promoted the video for the song "You Leave Spots".[19][20]

In early February 2010, Kamelia made the video for the song "How to forget you".[21] In early August 2010 Slava magazine named Kamelia the 'Sexiest Bulgarian Star' in its poll.[22] There followed a video for the song "Sexy", a sort of sequel to "Orgasm".[23] On 28 September of the same year, the song "Drink Me All" was released. In October, the singer took part in BNT's Christmas campaign in support of the children of fallen employees of the Ministry of Interior, where she is the face of the campaign along with TV presenters Spas Kyosev, Tsvetanka Rizova and Konstantin Lungov, as well as actor Vladimir Karamazov.[24]

In early 2011 the video for the song "Erotica" was broadcast on Kamelia's birthday.[25] In February 2011, readers of Bliasak magazine described Kamelia as 'The Sexiest Blonde in Pop-folk'.[26] Apart from Payner, the television operator Bulsatcom promoted a separate 50,000th edition of the 'Project 13' album on its distribution network for two months.[27] After the album there came a video of Kamelia performing song "Monastery".[28]

In March 2012, at the annual music awards on Planeta Kamelia TV, Kamelia received a special award for '15 years of musical career' from the company and presented the song "You're doing bad to me". In March 2012 she took part in the comedy series Rakia Sunrise,[29] which is part of the Show of Fame on bTV. In the same year she became the host of the Miss Bulgaria contest[30] together with the actor Kiril Efremov. In the autumn of 2013, Kamelia was again in the role of a TV presenter. The show she hosted was called Mars and Venus and was broadcast on Nova TV.[31]

On 31 March 2014, Kamelia's video for the song "It's Criminal" premiered.[32] This was followed by the duet song "Just for a Minute" by Galin and Kamelia, which premiered on 5 September 2014.[33] On 27 October 2014, the singer left Payner for good. Since then, Kamelia has been presenting herself through her own music company: Kams Production OOD. The first song with a video that she presented in 2015 was "Unique".[34] On 17 September her song "Give It Double" appeared.[35] On Christmas day 2015, Kamelia presented her third song of the year, called "Welcome", for which a video had been made.[36]

On 5 August 2016, Kamelia released the song "Minute of Life", which became one of the most successful pop-folk songs in the summer of 2016 with over one million views on video-sharing sites.[37] On 23 November 2016, it was announced that Kamelia would be a mentor in the new season of the Voice of Bulgaria in the spring of 2017.[38] Following the success of the Big mouth, Kamelia received an offer from the production company No Frame media[39] to host her own social talk show on national television TV7.[40]

On 8 February 2017, Kamelia's song titled "Teddy Bear" was released, with Alec. It was presented with a slideshow.[41] On 18 July 2017, Kamelia's song titled "Tease Me" was released, which is a duet with Gamza and became one of the hits of the year.[42] On 7 December 2017, the song "Dolls" was released. Almost a year later, on 23 September 2018, her duet with Sasho Roman "Your Name" was released, and became a hit that has about 10 million views. Six months later she remixed the song. On 28 September, the sequel to "Your Name" is about to be released, again with Sasho Roman, named "Hotel of Sin".

• Fire Girl (1998)
• Goldfish (1999)
• Something Hot (2002)
• There is love (2005)
• Erotica (2010)

• Kiss Me + Best Collection (2006)
• Project 13 (2010)
• The Golden Hits of Payner 3 - Kamellia (2012)

• "Where Are You" (2001)
• "Recharge" (2004)

• Kamelia Best Video Selection (2005)