Irina Chmykhova compositions sheet music and chords

Irina Nikolaevna Chmykhova (April 5, 1930, Plovdiv, Bulgaria - February 15, 2020, Sofia, Bulgaria) - Bulgarian singer and music teacher, one of the founders of Bulgarian pop music. She was born in the family of a Russian emigrant, White Guard and hereditary Voronezh nobleman Nikolay Nikolaevich Chmykhov and a Bulgarian Tsvetana Dimitrova Veleva. After graduating from the Higher Institute of Theatre Arts, she worked as an actress at the Dimitrovgrad Theater. She began singing while still at the institute, in 1950, in a musical quartet at the Sofia Russian Club. Songs for Irina Chmykhova were written by such composers as Boris Karadimchev and Iosif Tsankov.