Krisko in Sozopol on July 30, 2026 - Bulgaria's most-listened rapper with a late show at Dirty Gradina

Krisko, the most-listened Bulgarian rapper of the past decade, plays Sozopol on July 30, 2026 at the Dirty Gradina club. The show starts at 11 pm, which means a summer club concert on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, in a period when Sozopol is full.

Behind the stage name stands Kristian Talev, born on May 11, 1988 in Sofia. His path to the top of the Bulgarian charts began with television children's programmes and then continued through sound engineering, a profession he practised at Radio 1 in Bulgaria in 2008. The breakthrough came in 2010 with the single „Ludo noshti” in collaboration with Elitsa Todorova, the same singer who represented Bulgaria at Eurovision.

Since then Krisko has been a name that is hard to bypass on the Bulgarian pop and rap scene. „Vidimo dovolni” with Maria Ilieva, „Bazuka”, „Slagam kray” and „Da ili ne” are songs that have been in rotation on Bulgarian radio for years, and the total viewing figure for his videos on YouTube has reached around 130 million. Besides performing he also works as a producer and co-owns the label Adamand Records, which means he has control over what he releases and how.

Tickets range from 19.56 to 39.12 leva through bilet.bg, which in denars is roughly 616 to 1,232. For those holidaying on the Bulgarian coast in that period, Sozopol is a short distance from Burgas, and a concert of this rank in a club atmosphere is rarely this cheap.