Pasha Hristova

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Pasha Hristova (Bulgarian: Паша Христова) (July 16, 1946 - December 21, 1971) was a Bulgarian singer, best known for performing one of Bulgaria's most popular songs "Edna balgarska roza" ("A Bulgarian Rose"). Some of her other hits were "Povei, vetre" ("Blow, oh Wind"), "Tozi diven sviat" ("This Wonderful World", a version of Czesław Niemen's "Dziwny jest ten świat") and "Yantra" ("Yantra"). Her brief but meteoric career started in the late 1960s. Between 1967 and 1971, she won a number of awards at Bulgarian and international music festivals. She died in a plane crash in 1971. She was due for a flight to Algeria where she would have toured with the Sofia orchestra and other colleagues, including Mariya Neykova, Boris Gudjunov and Yanka Rupkina. As the plane was taking off, it rapidly lost altitude, hit the ground headfirst, broke in half and its front exploded and went in flames. Pasha and her husband Nikolay Arabadjiev were in the front seats and died a tragic death. When she died, she was carrying her second child.