Teodora Andreeva (a.k.a. Andrea) is a bulgarian pop-folk singer.

Born in Sofia
to a musical family, she took music lessons at an early age from her aunt who
was an opera singer in the Vraca Opera. During her teenage years she won a
many beauty awards (Miss Sofia, Miss Tourism Bulgaria).

After graduating high school, she was signed with Bulgarian music agencies,
Payner Music, and began her career.

In 2008 Andrea met Costi Ionita and together they produced their first balkan
hit "Samo Moi". During the next year they joined forces and introduced
themselves as an international duo creating Sahara. Their next hit song
(Tyalee) was released in 2009 and featured the artist Lenox Brown. The song
was released worldwide and known abroad by the name "Tyalee", Izbiram Teb
in Bulgaria. The english version of the song was produced by Cat Music and
soon after Serdar Ortac made a turkish version with the band Sahara.

Sahara released another single called "Bellezza" with Buppy and Geo deSilva.

"Bellezza" (Moyata Poroda) was released in Romania, Bulgaria, Italy and

France.

Sahara presented their english songs on every national romanian TV stations

- Kanal D, Pro TV, Antena 1.

In 2010 Andrea released "Neblagodaren" and "Haide opa".

Sahara (Andrea and Costi) went to Miami to begin a new project - "I wanna",
where they perform with Bob Sinclar and Shaggy. The song was distributed by
Yellow Production and Ministry of Sound Australia.

"I Wanna", from its release in 2010, reached over 50 countries from Europe,
Asia, South and North America, Africa and Australia, like: France, Germany,
Austria, Poland, Portugal, Belgium, The Netherlands, Monaco, USA, Canada,

UK, Switzerland, Serbia, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Turkey, Cyprus, Albania,

Portugal, Brazil, Tunisia, Bulgaria, Romania and South Africa. It reached no.6
on Fun Radio Belgium, no. 5 on Number 1 FM Top 40 Turkey and no.1 on Top
50 Radio 21 Romania.

The next song on Sahara is called "Mine" where they perform with Mario
Winans which is later distributed by Warner Music Denmark.

"Mine" was released on Denmark, Belgium, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Italy

and Romania. It entered directly on no.5 on Dance Fifty in Denmark and it
stayed there for several weeks.

She was a TV show host for 3 months on UTV(Romanian national television).

Andrea's international projects always make it to discos, clubs and bars in the
world.

Invitations from the "Turkiye Muzik Oduller" were also presented to Andrea
and Costi where they met turkish music high life.

The next project she accomplished was called "Champagne" where she
features Shaggy again. The track quickly became a hit. In Spain, Russia and
England. "I wanna" and "Champagne" become the most requested songs on
fashion parties and on catwalks of Fashion TV.

"Champagne" a song distributed in over 20 countries from Europe, Asia,

South and North America, Africa and Australia, reaching the most important
tops in USA, Canada, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria ,
Romania, Germany, Belgium, France, Croatia, Israel, Turkey, Russia, Spain,
Monaco, UK, Italy and South Africa. The song became the anthem of FTV
parties in the year 2011 and it was played at the most important FTV parties
worldwide. SAHARA had 2 concerts alongside Shaggy, where they performed
the song CHAMPAGNE : the first one was in Club "Carre", in Belgium and the
second one was in New York. CHAMPAGNE entered Radios tops like
1Dance.FM (USA), 100 Top FM (Israel), No.2 on Radio Vyzion (Turkey),
Gotradio USA, Fun Radio Belgium, i93 USA, no.6 on VJ Pro Series Playlist, no.2
on Ultra Top Radio Belgium, Champagne Radio France, Radio 21 (Romania),

Radio PRO FM (Romania), Radio KISS FM (Romania), Hit Parade Switzerland,

but also MTV Russia and MTV Spain.

Right after that Andrea and Costi rock with another song called "I wonder
why" which was released in Poland, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Mexico,
Venezuela, Bulgaria and Romania.

In May 2012 she joined the biggest music company in Romania - Roton Music
where she released her duet with Gabriel Davi "Only You" and her own solo
track "Hayetee" produced by Adrian Sina (Akcent).

Andrea made the cover of the italian fashion magazine - "Donna Salon
International".

In 2013 Andrea recorded a few songs in serbian.

In April the British media "The Guardian" defined Andrea as the most worthy
candidate for Eurovision Song Contest and says that she was the only one
who manages to incorporate turkish and romanian rhythm in her music.

In 2014 Andrea released her song with Alek Sandar "Peaceful Place". CNN
also mentioned Andrea's duet with Alek Sandar on Planeta TV Awards.

In February Andrea released her new song with Costi - "Chupa Song". And
together they promote the single on various TV and radio stations in Romania
and release worldwide.

Andrea performed on her concerts in Belgium, New York, Istanbul, Cyprus,

Amsterdam etc. Andrea's international projects always make it to discos,
clubs and bars.

During the years she has wons over 30 awards like "Balkan Star" on
"Beogradski Pobednik" in Belgrade, "European Performer of the Yea"r on
"Kralevski Festival" in Kralevo Serbia, "Balkan Star" on "Montefolk Awards" in
Montenegro.