Shturtzite

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Shturtzite (spelled also: Shturtsite, Shturcite, Šturtsite; Bulgarian: Щурците) is a Bulgarian rock music group. They were one of the most successful bands in Bulgaria during the 70's and 80's and still have a lot of supporters, despite the fact that the band has broken up.

Contents

1 History
2 Artists
3 Discography
4 External links

History

The group was created in 1967 in Sofia by Kiril Marichkov, P. Tsankov (from Bandaratsite group), Petar Gyuzelev, and V. Kisyov (from Slanchevi Bratya group). Their first performance was at a students party in VITIZ (The Bulgarian School for Performing Arts), and in 1967 they made their first records. At first Georgi Minchev took part in the group, too, and with him they made their first success: the song Byala Tishina ("Бяла тишина"; White Silence) [listen] ([Media helphelp]·[info]) of the composer Boris Karadimchev, winning the national award of Belia Orfei ("Белия Орфеи", the White Orpheus).

In 1968 the group issued their first disk with the songs Veselina ("Веселина", text: Radoi Ralin) [listen] ([Media helphelp]·[info]), Zvan ("Звън"), Malkiat Svetal Prozorets ("Малкият светъл прозорец"; Little Bright WIndow) and Izprashtane ("Изпращане").

They had more than 2600 concerts and are still the most successfull Bulgarian music band.

Artists

Kiril Marichkov (Кирил Маричков — bass, vocal, clavier, composer

Petăr Gyuzelev (Петър Гюзелев) - guitar, vocal

Veselin Kisyov (Веселин Кисьов) - guitar(untill 1969)

Petăr Tsankov (Петър Цанков) - petcussion (untill 1971)

Konstantin Atanosov (Константин Атанасов) - guitar,vocal(1969 – 1971,1973 — 1974,1976)

Atanas Atanasov (Атанас Атанасов) - percussion(1973 – 1974)

Georgi Markov (Георги Марков) - percussion(since 1974)

Borislav Panov (Борислав Панов) - clavier, vocal, violin (1974 – 1976)

Vladimir Totev (Владимир Тотев) - clavier, vocal (since 1976)

Discography

Shturtzite 76 ("Щурците'76"; 1976)
Shturtzite 78 ("Щурците'78"; 1978)
20 Century ("ХХ век"; 1980)
The Taste of Time ("Вкусът на времето"; 1982)
The Rider ("Конникът"; 1985)
Musqueteer's March ("Мускетарски марш"; 1987)
20 Years Later ("20 години по-късно"; 1988)
30 Years Later ("30 години Щурците"; 1998)
Anthology in 4 parts ("Антология"; 2004)

External links

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