The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices is a Bulgarian female vocal choir that received global recognition and a Grammy award for best traditional folk album in 1990. Decades later, it continues to bring ...

A wider interest in Bulgarian choirs was prompted by the success of the album series Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares put out in the 1980s by 4AD records and admired by everyone from Bowie and Zappa to ...

Thirty-one years ago, a recording by an all-female Bulgarian choir singing in a 1,000-year-old style somehow wound up selling a startling 500,000 copies in the United States. The mysterious ...

The tradition of singing in the fields is universal. American slaves sang the gospel of cotton. Cuban virtuoso Omar Portuando grew up to the symphony of the sugarcane harvest. Folklorist Alan Lomax ...