Deep Zone & Balthazar
Deep Zone Project is a Bulgarian house / electro band founded in 2000 by DJ Dian Solo, JuraTone and Rossko. Eventually Rosko was replaced by Startrax. Deep Zone are most famous for their Eurovision participation in 2008 cooperating DJ Balthazar with the dance tune DJ, Take Me Away. The band has released five albums and has had a number of successful singles on the Bulgarian charts. They also have won many national and international awards. Their first vocalist until early 2011 was Joanna Dragneva. She used to be in the vocal Bulgarian group Bon-Bon presenting children shows on television and later co-hosting Hello and Melo TV Mania shows. She was also their vocalist in Eurovision.
The collaboration with DJ Balthazar took the group to another dimension with their national club tours Welcome To The Loop and Red Line (20 dates each), which gathered an audience of nearly 80,000 people. In 2010, they released On Fire, a big-budget production in Bulgaria terms with cooperation from actor Fahradin Fahradinov.
In February 2015 it was announced that Alex and Nadia had left the band to develop solo careers. In 2015, Nelina Georgieva became the vocalist but her contract with the band only lasted for three years. In January 2018, she left the band and she was replaced by Eva Maria Petrova.