Kiril Marichkov


Kiril Marichkov is a Bulgarian rock musician.

Biography

Marichkov was born in Sofia and played piano, clarinet, bass-guitar and guitar since young age. In 1963 he founded one of the first Bulgarian rock bands, the "Bandaracite" and in 1967 one of the most successful bands in Bulgaria during the 70s and 80s - "Shturtzite". Since its foundation, Kiril Marichkov has been the frontman of the band. He has also composed a large part of their songs, which approximate 160, in fourteen albums. Shturcite have performed over 2600 concerts in sixteen countries.
In his discography Kiril Marichkov has two solo albums - "Zodija Shturec" and "Iskam da kazha" which gave birth to several hits including "Vjarvam v teb, "Kletva", "Obicham te zavinagi" and "Mojat svjat".
Apart from his career as a rock musician, Kiril Marichkov has composed soundtracks for the movies "Vchera" , Rio Adio in 1989
, "Indianski igri"
, "Vampiri-talasymi"
, "Dunav most" , "Naj-vazhnite neshta" etc.
He is a co-founder of the only Bulgarian Rock-radiostation "Radio Tangra", today "Radio Gong".
In 1990, at a time of great political changes at the fall of the Communist regime in Bulgaria, his song "Az sym prosto Chovek" became one of the new democracy's anthems, sung by hundreds of thousands of people on the new democratic political rallies. During this period Kiril Marichkov was elected member of the Grand National Assembly as a part of the Union of Democratic Forces.
In 2013, after Shturcite broke up, he formed a band called Fondatsiata with other famous Bulgarian rock musicians, including Ivan Lechev and Dobrin "Doni" Vekilov.

Discography

With "Shturtzite"

Solo