farah ashraf |
An American actress, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a Master of Arts from the University of California in Languages. In 2010, she received a PEN Translation Fund Grant from the American PEN Foundation to work on the film Holy Light. After returning to the United States, she was drawn to Bulgarian music and began studying musicology. She joined the Superdevoiche choir for Bulgarian women at the University of California in Los Angeles and sang with the Los Angeles-based Balkan band Baksheesh Boys. In 2005, she returned to Bulgaria to study folk singing at the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv.
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