Background
He was born of 4 August 1961 in the town of Polski Trambesh, near Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. He was born in the family of Stefan Marinov and Yordanka Marinova.
He was born of 4 August 1961 in the town of Polski Trambesh, near Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. He was born in the family of Stefan Marinov and Yordanka Marinova.
In 1983 he graduated the People’s Music Department in the class of Petar Dimitrov.
His full name is Veselin Stefanov Marinov (in Bulgarian: Веселин Стефанов Маринов). Veselin has a brother, Marin Marinov (born in 1955) who has two daughters. Veselin has one daughter - Yoana.
Veselin started his involvement with music when he was in the 7th grade.
Veselin started to play and sing in a school group. In 1981 he was asked to start working like a vocal in the Bulgarian band Impuls.
His first appearance was on 2 December 1982 in Vidin, Bulgaria. The band produced progressive rock music, and their first song with Marinov on vocals was "Midnight music".
The first song which was composed by Marinov himself was "You came".
In 1984 Veselin underwent two operations of the vocal cords and left Impuls. In 1987 year his first album, "From love", was released. Marinov"s songs became popular in the 90"son
The songs "Bitter wine" (bulg "Горчиво вино") and "Foreign you, Bulgaria" (bulg "За теб, Българийо") became hits.
Since 2007 Veselin Marinov appears in Christmas concerts every year.
1st place and Audience Award Youth Festival of Popular Song"1983, song "You came" 2nd place Youth Festival of Popular Song, song "The dock of love" 1st place Youth Festival of Popular Song, song "Piano for two" International Festival of Young Performers"1986 - Tbilisi, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Grand Prix Intervision Song Contest"1989 Grand Prix Golden Orpheus+"1994, song "Bitter Wine" Melody of the year"1995, song "Bitter Wine" 1st place Spring Radio Competition"1995, song "Bitter Wine" 2nd place Spring Radio Competition"1997, song "Woman on the balcony" Grand Prix EuroFest"1999, Skopije Audience Award Pirinfolk - 1998 and 2004 Grand Prix Pirinfolk - 2002 Crystal Lyre"2005 - Prize of Union of Bulgarian musicians and dancers Singer of the year - 2003, 2004 and 2005.
