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After a lengthy absence from the international scene legendary Bulgarian clarinet player Ivo Papasov has returned in 2004.

Papasov is of Bulgarian Roma (Gypsy) and Turk origin and comes from Kardzali, a city close to Bulgaria's Turkish and Greek borders. He grew up in a musical family and followed the Balkan Gypsy tradition of leaving school at a young age to focus on playing music for a living.

Initially he played in local bands that worked restaurants, festivities and the lucrative wedding scene yet Papasov was so gifted a musician that soon he was leading his own band.

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Communist Bulgaria was not accommodating to Gypsy culture and it's unfortunate that the young Papasov was not often recorded as legend paints him as the leader of one of the Balkans' hottest bands. Those who heard Papasov largely did so at weddings where he and his band quickly established themselves as the Number 1 wedding band in Bulgaria.

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