Lucy Diakovska | |
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Diakovska on-stage at the Kieler Woche
on 27 June 2008. |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Ludmilla Diakovska |
Also known as | Lucy, Lucylicious |
Born |
Pleven, Bulgaria |
2 April 1976
Genres | Pop |
Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, music producer, stage actress, television personality |
Years active | 1997–present |
Labels |
Island (2004) Edel (2005–present) |
Associated acts | Nadja Benaissa, Sandy Mölling, No Angels, Vanessa Petruo, Jessica Wahls |
Website | Lucylicious.tv |
Ludmilla "Lucy" Diakovska (Bulgarian: Людмила Любомирова Дяковска Lyudmila Lyubomirova Dyakovska; born 2 April 1976) is a Bulgarian-born German singer-songwriter, music producer, dancer, stage actress and television personality, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels, the "biggest-selling German girlband to date," according to the German media.
After a series of commercially successful releases with the group, Diakovska released two singles and her solo album Lucylicious under her same-titled stage name in 2005. In 2008, she became part of the jury on reality shows Music Idol and Starmania, the Bulgarian and Austrian version of the Idol series respectively, also in 2012 of the German version of Popstars. She paused her Career since 2013. In June 2014 the Band No Angels has finally separated the second time.
Diakovska is the oldest child of Lubomir Diakovski, an opera singer, and Rositza Diakovska, a pianist. Her younger brother named Alexander (b. 1982) is a professional basketball player. Her grandfather is a famous Bulgarian folk composer. Her family moved to Germany.
At the age of six she got her first stage performance at a local opera house and in the following years she trained herself in singing and dancing. After her high school graduation in 1994 Diakovska decided to move to Germany to get trained at the Stage School of Music, Dance and Drama in Hamburg. At the same time she worked as a dancer for the musical "Buddy", where she even got hold of a recurring role a little later.
Encouraged to chance her luck in the professional music business, Diakovska decided to audition for the 2000 debut of the German reality television program Popstars. She entered the competition with thousands of other women, and the judges, Simone Angel, Rainer Moslener and Mario M. Mendryzcki, were impressed with her performance in Hamburg. She earned a position in the top thirty finalists and immediately travelled to Majorca, Spain to join her competitors for a workshop there. In the end Diakovska made it to the final ten on the show, and during a special episode in November 2000, jury member Moslener disclosed that she was chosen to become part of the final girl group No Angels.