Teodora "Andrea" Andreeva

Andrea (born Teodora Rumenova Andreeva on January 23, 1987) is a Bulgarian pop-folk singer best known by her stage name, Andrea (Bulgarian: Андреа). She and the Romanian singer Costi Ionita have also performed together and released music as Sahara.

Career

Her musical career began with the help of her producer Lusi Ilarionov. Her first song, “Kato nepoznat”, was released in June 2006 and her first music video one month later. In March 2008 Andrea released her first album, Ogan v kravta. In August of the same year she sang a duet Samo moi with the Romanian star Costi Ionita and the song became an summer hit. Then they started to work together and released many hits, including the duets Izbiram teb , Upotrebena, Neblagodaren, Lazha go s teb, and Lyubovnik. Also, Costi is the composer of Andrea’s other best hits like "Men si tarsil", "Day mi vsichko, Hayde, Opa", "Izlazhi me" and many others included on her albums Men si tarsil (released in October 2009) and Andrea (released in December 2010). Андреа & Costi are working together in a project called Sahara and make modern dance music for European and International audiences. Some of their tracks are in collaboration with great world music stars including Bob Sinclar, Shaggy, and Mario Winans.

She has released 5 albums on the Payner label in Bulgaria.

In June 2008, she appeared on the cover and in a feature in the Bulgarian edition of Playboy.

In 2009, as part of Sahara she recorded a single called Bellezza with Geo Da Silva. She appears as part of Sahara in the 2010 song and video for DJ Bob Sinclar's song I Wanna, also featuring Shaggy.

At the start of her career, Andrea was offered a solo recording contract, but declined.

In 2011 she expanded some of her music to America such as Mine ft. Mario Winas, and Champagne ft. Shaggy. Now she is working on several new songs , some that are released this year is "Na Eks" featuring Bulgarian opera singer "Kristal". She is preparing to release her new song by Mid July 2011, "Dokrai". Andrea has just released a song with Bulgarian singer Boris Soltariiski called, "Predai Se", this Fall. The video was released in late September.

Albums

* Ogun v kruvta (2008]
* Men si tursil (2009)
* The best selection (2009)
* Andrea (2010)
* Losha (2012)

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