Certainly one of the important figures in the beat scene of Sofia, Bulgaria, Bojidar Vasilev – Trombobby combines his long-time passion, the trombone, with peculiar beats to a truly contemporary sound.
Graduated from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with jazz trombone, he’s also part of acts like SOUTHWICK, DAYO, and Android Ethics. Trombobby has played with and produced for numerous musicians in Bulgaria’s thriving soul, r&b, and instrumental hip-hop scenes and also teaches music production at Sound Ninja Music Academy.
[ Key Achievements ]
- sold-out worldwide vinyl campaign for PAUSE VOL. 1 (in collaboration with Qrates, HHV.de & Fat Beats)
- featured on Apple Music’s BEATstrumentals
- featured on Spotify’s ORBIT editorial
- featured on TIDAL’s Rising Deutschland, Grooves: Deutscher R&B, New Music Poland and Bulgaria editorials
- winner of The Kount Challenge 2021
- “LONGING” radio play by Amazing Radio (US), SoulTracks (USA), El Rocanrosaurio (MX), Radio Krimi (FR), Bulgarian National Radio (BG), Radio Nova 98.9 (PT), Rádio Armazém (BR)
- nominated for Forbes 30 under 30 Bulgaria
- 2.5M streams across DSPs
- supported by independent curators like College Music, Ryan Celsius, Hip Dozer, Delicieuse Musique, Kraak & Smaak, and BLNDR, GenDirect (400k followers on TikTok)
- added to 6.7k+ independent playlists on Spotify
- his music (with DAYO) got used by Will Smith on his official YT channel
- performed live on Bulgarian National TV
- Interview for RCRDLBL, feature on EarMilk, SoulTracks, The World Is Bond, FLEX, Italmassive, album review on TwistedSoul
- #6 on hypem Popular Charts (“BOX OF CHOCOLATES”)
