Name: Galina Peneva Ivanova
Birth Date: 06/28/1973
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Galina Peneva Ivanova (Bulgarian: Галина Пенева Иванова) (born June 28, 1973 in Ruse, Bulgaria), better known as Gloria (Bulgarian Cyrillic: Глория), is a famous Bulgarian pop-folk singer. Arguably the most popular of her generation, she is known as the Mother of pop-folk.
Gloria was born in 1973 to Stefka Ivanova and Penko Ivanov. A very emotional and lively girl, she also preferred to play more with boys than with girls. During second grade, Gloria almost lost her legs. The doctors from Ruse gave her an emergency operation, but it failed. The expectation was that she would need to be in a wheelchair until the age of eighteen. Her mother, however, did not give up fighting this tragic accident. The same year, she met professor Shoilev, who performed a second operation in Sofia. Gloria was able to stand on her feet again. Until this day, she remains grateful to Professor Shoilev. Four years later, Gloria's parents divorced, leaving her and her brother Nikolai to live with their grandparents in a cottage. During that time, they completed their secondary education. Gloria herself finished Technical High School in farming.
Sources: Wikipedia.
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