The Deep
Zone Project was formed in 2000 by three
musicians, DJ’s and studio engineers, DJ Dian (Dian Savov, the writer of
"DJ Take Me Away"), Rossko (real
name Rosen Stoev), Luybomir Savov (Dian’s
father), who are
recognised in Eastern Europe for their talent
for song writing and making club anthems.
After the release of their
debut album "Ela Izgeiin" 2002, Deep
Zone Project were nominated in five categories
at the 2002 MM TV Music Awards. They won the
award for best song with their track "Ela
Izgrei" which was massive hit around the
Balkans. In the next year 2003 they left the
MM TV Awards Ceremony with another award -
their track "Without Caffeine" won
the Best Club Track of the Year.
In 2005, The
Deep Zone Project made their first attempt to
get tothe Eurovision Song Contest, however
their song "The Dance Of The World",
finished 12th and last in the first Belgarian
national final.
Soon afer,
their collaborations with DJ Balthazar took
the group to another dimension with their
massive national club tours "Welcome To
The Loop" and "Red Line" (each
with 20 dates), which gathered an audience of
more than 30,000 people.
Since 2006
Deep Zone's songs have featured the vocal
talents of Joanna Dragneva, who was born in
Sofia in 1987. From an early age Joanna
discovered that she was born for music and
television. At age ten, she started studying
at the Lyubomir Pipkov Bulgarian National
Music School. At the moment, she studies at
the Pancho Vladigerov National Music Academy
in Sofia, specialising in percussion and pop
& jazz singing. Joanna
has also played percussion at the Sofia Youth
Philharmonic and the American Symphonic
Orchestra.
As well as
being the lead singer of the Deep Zone
Project, Joanna has also been anchor of
the "Bon-Bon" TV show at Bulgarian
National Television (BNT). Joanna was backing
vocal of the Bulgarian pop stars Georgi
Hristov, Nely Rangelova, Krum, and others. In
2005, she became the presenter of the
"Melo TV Mania" show on BNT, and
from 2006 Joanna has been a reporter on the
"Everybody in front of the TV
screen" show of BNT.
In 2007, the
Depp Zone Project released their single
" DJ, Take Me Away", a collaboration
with DJ Balthazar. The song has reached #2 in
MTV Europe’s World Chart Express and due to
its massive successful was always the
favourite to respresent Bulgaria in this
year's Eurovision Song Contest.
Balthazar
started DJ'ing in 1998 and now he is known as
one of the most respected and popular DJs and
producers in Bulgaria. He
has performed at every major club in his
country as well as on many big raves and
various radio and TV shows. His international
gigs have taken him to nearly twenty European
countries including the U.K., Germany,
Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, France,
Malta and Cyprus, to name a few.
Very often
he plays at special events alongside other
well known and respected DJ's or live acts.
Balthazar is also owner of the Renesanz
agency, with which he promotes numerous
parties and books foreign house and techno
DJ's for selected clubs and events. Four times
a year Renesanz organises big raves for more
than 2000 people.
With this,
Balthazar has become one of the biggest
promoters in electronic music in Bulgaria.
Since 2003 he has been producing music with
his studio partner JackRock and they have so
far released more than fifty tracks and
remixes on different labels. Balthazar's own
style varies between groovy/minimal techno and
electro/tribal/progressive house, always
corresponding with the newest records on the
scene. Usually his sets are quite energetic
and technically perfect.
Bulgaria's
entry is one of the boomakers favourites to
qualify from the second semi-final and to
finish in the Top 10 in the final, however fan
polls have beeen rather less promising,
yielding a mixed bag of results.