Antoaneta Dobreva – Neti

Antoaneta Dobreva, better known by her stage name Neti, is a Bulgarian pop singer and
actress.

Early years

She is born on 14th September 1975 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her parents are Svetla Dobreva,
associate professor of physics, and Georgi Dobrev, doctor of internal medicine.

In 2019, she found out she was adopted by them. In reality, her father is the actor Petyo
Krastev, and her mother is Jilda Parvanova, who for many years could not contact Neti
because she was misinformed that her child's adoptive father was Svetla Dobreva's brother
and not herself.

As a child she studied piano and participated in the Children's Radio Choir, with conductor
Academician Hristo Nedyalkov. She has been involved in theatre since 1989. Her first role
was in the play "Awesome Girls", staged at the National Theatre "Ivan Vazov" in Sofia.

Career

In 1994-1996 she worked as a model.

In 2000 she graduated in acting for drama theatre at “Krastyo Sarafov” National Academy for
Theatre and Film Arts in the class of Professor Stefan Danailov, Associate Professor Ilia
Dobrev and Ivaylo Hristov with full honours. From the same year she joined the troupe of
the Bulgarian Army Theatre.

She has performed in productions of "Hedgehog," "Yesterday," "Edmund," "The Importance
of Being Earnest," "Chauffeur for Ladies," "The Graduate," "All That Jazz," "A Chorus Line,"
"Out of Control," "The Collection," "The Iron Chandelier," "Decameron," "Romeo and Juliet,"
"Bandit Opera," "Casting," "Comedy of Errors," "Beautiful Bodies," "Barefoot in the Park,"
"The Philanderer," "Dangerous Games," "Great Guys," "Step Up," and "Oliver".

Musical career

 Instruments - vocal
 Lyric soprano voice
 Pop, opera, operetta and musical

Her activity in the musical field stretches from year 2000 till the present moment, including
various performances and stages around Bulgaria, including the cities of Sofia, Pleven, Stara
Zagora, Varna, Plovdiv. A related artist of hers is Dobrin Dimitrov Vekilov, better known by
his stage name Doni, who is a famous Bulgarian pop singer, composer, songwriter and actor.

On 20 December 2013 in Bulgaria Hall in Sofia under the conductorship of Maestro Emil
Tabakov and with the Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra she took part in a concert
performance of Alexander Vladigerov's musical “The Wolf and the Seven Goats”.

Occasionally, though rarely, Neti participates in the dubbing of animated films. She voiced
Selena Gomez as Princess Selenia in “Arthur and Malthazar's Revenge” and “Arthur and the
War of the Two Worlds”, Ellie Kemper as the Flower Smurf in “The Smurfs: The Lost Village”,
and Gina Rodriguez as Kolka in “The Little Step”.

On 8 March 2018 she made her debut in the opera "La Boheme" by Giacomo Puccini, in the
role of Musetta, at the Stara Zagora Opera House. On 26 October 2018 the opera "The
Beautiful Elena" by Offenbach premiered at the State Opera Stara Zagora. On 4 June, Neti
performed her third operatic role as Serpina, in the chamber opera “The Servant Mistress”
by Pergolesi, at the Stara Zagora State Opera.

In 2019, she obtained her Master's degree at the The National Academy of Music “Prof.
Pantcho Vladigerov”, which is the most authoritative higher education music school in
Bulgaria with the oldest, best established and most efficient professional traditions. It
focuses on the potential and achievements of the most significant, renowned artists in this
area in the same amount today, as it has done in the past. Its graduates win top prizes in
prestigious international competitions and take part in international music initiatives.

Neti has toured Ukraine, Austria, Germany, France, Great Britain, Israel, the United States,
Canada and Spain.

In 2020, she participated in the second season of the television Show “The Masked Singer”
as a guest participant. In the first season of the Bulgarian television Show "Dancing With The
Stars" she qualified as a finalist. She also qualified as a finalist in one of the most popular
Bulgarian tv Shows in the last 10 years “Kato dve kapki voda”/ "Like Two Drops of Water",
which is a Bulgarian version of the show "Tu cara me suena"/"Your Face Sounds Familiar",
developed by Endemol and Antena 3. In Bulgaria, it began airing in the spring of 2013 on
Nova TV as a production of Magardich Halvajian's company Global Films. Since then, the
show has been a part of the spring TV schedule every season. The show features celebrities
(actors, singers, TV presenters and other showbiz personalities) who imitate world-famous
and national artists from the music scene for 3 months. For the imitation, they have to
behave like them in appearance (from the video or concert performance), behavior, voice
and chase the resemblance "like two drops of water".

Awards

Neti has been awarded in all the fields in which she works. She has won prizes as an actress,
as well as a singer and a model.

 Maxim Award for Female Lead ("Shoot the Artist")
 Icarus Award for theatrical debut ("The Importance of Being Earnest");
 Maxim Award for Supporting Actress ("The Collection");
 Award from BG Radio in 2002 ("Tonight I'm beautiful", together with Doni);
 First place in the "Best model" competition in 1995.