A Bulgarian folk song conquered the world and flew into space

"Izlel is Delyo haidutin" is a folk song from the Zlatograd region. In 1977, the song, performed by singer Valya Balkanska, was included in Voyager's Gold Voyager of Voyager 2 and Voyager 1 as a music message from the Earth to the far cosmos.
There are 100 formations on the plate that flies in space. Among them are children's weeping, dog bark, noise on a stream, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Strauss. And this song of the Bulgarian Valya Balkanska, chosen among 250,000 songs from all over the world. Anne Drew, the wife of Carl Sagan, after a serious selection chooses a Bulgarian song to fly. "I love music, but I also love farming," says great Valentina Balkanska. "Because what you sow in people and what you sow in the land, it comes out, I sow the Rhodope song, I feel in the nature that this land feeds me and lives, I stand there, because it draws power from there, I'm inspiring there. , to feel the music, to feel the bread ... "When we listen to the song of Valya Balkanska, we bark at the sound of the bagpipe in combination with the magnificent voice of the singer in the magnificent Rhodope Mountains ...