Until 1984, Stanley worked with the bands ‘Takt’ and the Plovdiv rock band ‘Parallel 42’, which was popular at the time. Between 1984 and 1986, he was the lead singer of the band “Tangra”, when the band’s iconic album “Tangra II” was released. Stanley was the lead singer when “Tangra” recorded the hit “The Tin Soldier”. “Tangra”, with Stanley in the line-up, was the first Bulgarian new wave band. He then joined the band “Sprint”, where he was the lead singer for two years. In 1990, he embarked on a solo singing career. For his 1992 album, he won the “Singer of the Year” award from the national “Rock Academy”. As well as his own music, Stanley also writes music for theatre productions such as Grisha Ostrovsky’s “The Tempest”, Petar Marinov’s “The Cardinal’s Night” and Ivan Viripaev’s “Valentine’s Day”. Stanley is married to the actress, singer and writer Lyudmila Slaneva – Loko, for whose album “You Can” (2005) he wrote the music and did the arrangements. info: Wikipedia. At dwr, we have featured Stanley’s first three solo albums, as we believe this was the period when his music possessed a particularly distinctive, powerful character and a signature style of its own.
