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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Doni
Person · male · Bulgaria · Sofia · born 1967
Bulgarian singer
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1960s
Biography
English biography195 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1376697483
Biography
Dobrin Dimitrov Vekilov (born May 7, 1967) (Bulgarian Cyrillic: Добрин Димитров Векилов), best known by his stage name Doni (Bulgarian Cyrillic: Дони, also spelled Dony), is a Bulgarian pop singer, composer and actor.
Biography
Prior to turning to singing, Doni started his education as a pharmacist but his passion for music prevailed. He began studying music in 1988 and started his professional music career in the 1990s as a member of the bands "Atlas" and "Medikus". Doni subsequently formed one of the most successful musical duos in Bulgaria with Momchil Kolev or simply Momchil.
Vekilov has worked together in a musical capacity with and is married to Antoaneta Dobreva, better known by her stage name Neti, and they have a daughter. Doni and Neti have appeared in various productions, among them with the Sofia Philharmonic, including the Fortissimo Familia concert Children's Film Music, conducted by Nayden Todorov, and Oliver Twist with conductor Maxim Eshkenazy.
In his career so far, Vekilov has made 500 songs, composing more than 250 of them, while the number of those for which he has been the text writer exceeds 300.
He has from time to time been active in Bulgarian politics.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 5 | 32th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
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Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 5 | 32th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12279008genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12279008seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doni_%28Bulgarian_singer%29biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doni_%28Bulgarian_singer%29
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Bulgarian musicians and singers
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Ladakh · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q12279008 · MusicBrainz: 84948f2a-e950-4eca-a183-5675b4825eb8
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