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Val considers himself a Bulgarian, but when he says things like, "You've got to take the bull by the horns," we find it harder and harder to believe him. His band mates often refer to him as "makedonaz" or "Macedonian" due to the common ending of his last name and his taste for Macedonian music.
Val tells us he doesn't want us to portray him as a father of three; he doesn't want his private life on display. In our sick minds, we think it's just because he doesn't want chicks to know he has a family.
Now seriously, Val is the best father in the world. One of the authors of this story has no father, and from that position, if he could choose a father he would have liked to have one like Val. He also says that if he were a woman, he would like to have a husband like Val, too. You want Val with you when you go to the war (says one of the authors, who went to war).
Val was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 19XX. Val's grandfather was a communist, and earned Val's respect, but he could not share in his grandfather's beliefs. In communist Bulgaria, an intellectual was an anti-communist by definition, and Val was grew up with blue collar intelligentsia in his blood. He grew up with balkan folk music and hated it with a passion; it reminded him of corrupted, cruel, sometimes murderous politicians who portrayed themselves as communists. For the innocent visitors to this website who did not pay to attention in history classes (if you even had a history class at your high school, you ignorant fucks) you should know that Bulgaria was hit the hardest with an absolutist ideology, the cruelest version of what was known as the communist government. They forced their people to try hard to be bigger Russians than the Russians. It was a bad place to live, and the only escape was the western culture of rock music (which was unpatriotic at that time in Bulgaria, like europhilia and soccer in the United States today).
Val was the lead singer and guitarist of Orion. The band had a hit single and was a star in the last days of Bulgarian communism, and as top talent in Bulgarian rock music, Orion was sent to the San Remo international music festival in Italy. They did well, and Val and Orion's drummer decided not to go back to Bulgaria, so they asked for political asylum in Germany. They said nothing to nobody -- that's how Bulgaria was -- not even to their other band-mates. You think you've been exposed to shit in your life? You read this, and you feel better. He stayed in Germany for three years and got accepted to the United States as a refugee. And when push comes to shove, he is the coach of his daughter's soccer team, living in the land of the free.
Kultur Shock is his baby; he doesn't just play in it, he nurtures it -- and it was because of him that Kultur Shock never lost money on a tour.
Now we're cooking with gas.
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