Slavin Slavchev ( bg, Славин Славчев, born 7 March 1991) is a Bulgarian singer and songwriter currently a lead vocal and bass guitarist in Julian's Laughter. He is the winner of the 2014 season of Bulgarian

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Career

2014–2015:''X Factor'' Bulgaria

Slavchev was part of the third season of

and won it. In the first week of the show he performed

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by Aerosmith. Zaki said that after this performance he believed that Slavchev could give a new life to the rock music in Europe. He moved on to week 2 by being among the highest number of vote winners. Second week was a Halloween night where he performed

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. In the next week's show he performed "

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" and the Bulgarian song " Блус за двама". After his performance of Queen's hit "

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" the judges called it the best performance of the season and that they see him as a potential winner. At the final show he presented a duet with

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performing the

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's song " Street of Dreams" He won the show after this being on the final with

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(third) and Nevena Peykova (runner-up).

2015–2017: Debut singles

Exclusive in the final of X Factor he performed him first solo single "Ela" (Come). Lately it was released and a video of the song which had scenes from all performs of Slavin on X Factor's stage. In the summer of 2015 he released and him 2nd single "Losh Sum za Teb" (I'm bad for you) by Wow Productions. The Bulgarian model Queenie-Alice Nicolova took part in the video.

2017–present: Julian's Laughter

In 2017 Slavin, together with Miloslav Petrov, Tihomir Vasilev and Nikolay Nikolaev established the alternative/art rock band Julian's Laughter.Славин Славчев и Julian's Laughter представят нов проект
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Discography

Personal life

Slavchev studied law in

Veliko Tarnovo University The St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo ( Bulgarian ''Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“'') is a Bulgarian university based in Veliko Tarnovo. History ...

. He is a member and front-man of the hard-rock/progressive/alternative band Century (formed in Varna, Bulgaria in 2012). During the show he announced that he broke up with his girlfriend.

External links

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Official Facebook page

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Slavchev, Slavin 1991 births Living people Musicians from Varna, Bulgaria Bulgarian rock singers 21st-century Bulgarian male singers X Factor (Bulgarian TV series) The X Factor winners