I was born in Bulgaria. I’m a daughter of communism. I lived with communism behind the iron curtain. We had no idea of the voices in the West because it was forbidden to listen to radio from those countries. We were able to listen to radio from Russia and the Bolshoi Theatre.
When I finished at the conservatory I won a scholarship to study at the Bolshoi. In the meantime, however, my friend who was an engineering student had made a primitive valve radio and he told me that with his radio he could reach channels from the West.