Show more Show less. National Endowment for the Arts. My whole clan were musicians. Roma Sax Man of Bulgaria Yuri Yunakov talks with Christina Roden about wedding music and life in America Yuri Yunakov is a founder and one the biggest stars of Bulgaria's wildly popular "wedding music" scene. Asked about the jazz flavor that sometimes turns up in his music, Yunakov insists that, while he admires jazz, he is not a jazz player. Once the Eastern Bloc broke up, "wedding music" was free to blossom in Bulgaria and to influence trends elsewhere in Europe and beyond. 
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In Socialist Bulgaria Roma music was considered anti-Bulgarian and consequently stigmatized, and musicians playing it were a target of government repression.
In fact, the Roma migrated from northern India before the last millennium. Listen Yuri Yunakov answers yiri question 'How did you get interested in music? I have work, my children are in good schools, and my wife is a housewife.
Yunakov experienced this loss first-hand. Yuri Yunakov answers the quesiton 'What brought you to yuankov United States?
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I would go over to their houses and we would listen to bootleg cassettes. The fast-paced popular music, also characterized by virtuosic technique and daring key changes, is played for dancing, not only at weddings but also at celebrations of other key events, such as circumcisions and baptisms.
The freedom of the style appealed to Yunakov as much as finally being able to utilize his Rom roots.
The first one is that I want put together a really good orchestra, to succeed, to get yunakob, and to become well known. After serving in the army he was a professional boxer, but music turned out to be more lucrative.
Telephone interview by Alan Govenar, June 27, In Socialist Bulgaria Roma music was considered anti-Bulgarian and consequently stigmatized, and musicians playing it were a target of government repression. He also did some professional boxing, which is not surprising, given his impressive height and solid physique. Yuri Yunakov answers the question 'How did you get interested in music? I want them to become well-educated and to succeed in America.
Lauren keyboard player-vocalist Brody plays Jewish music a lot. The other one is for my yurk. We changed it at some point to a Slavic name. Yunakov is taking some steps to preserve his work for posterity. I've got a lot of friends and I like my colleagues very much.
I'm offering the music, and the music is the last word. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors and is licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License. That's when I heard jazz, during this period of prohibition. Yuri Yunakov is a Turkish-Bulgarian Roma musician, who is famous for participating in the development of Bulgarian wedding music, and introducing it to the United States.
About Documentary Arts Creating and preserving new perspectives on the arts, culture, and history since Yunakov is a recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Artswhich is yhri United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
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gunakov I'm not a jazz musician in the American style. Now things are much more free; and in fact, "wedding music" is heard all over! The Roma's lack of any recognized nationality made them easy marks and convenient scapegoats wherever they went.
We felt like house mice, like the lowest kind of criminals, being hounded for playing Rom music! He eventually took up the clarinet, the same instrument as his father.
Linguistic studies indicate that their language, Romanes, is derived from Sanskrit and has much in common with modern Hindi. Sign in to the BBC, or Register. Milev immediately invited him to join his own orchestra, which played Bulgarian Slavic music, but suggested that Yunakov switch to the saxophone.
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