{"id":452294,"date":"2026-05-21T04:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/452294\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T04:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:09:17","slug":"video-eurovision-winner-dara-turns-sofia-into-a-giant-bangaranga-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/452294\/","title":{"rendered":"Video. Eurovision winner Dara turns Sofia into a giant \u2018Bangaranga\u2019 party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of fans filled Alexander I Battenberg Square in Sofia on Tuesday to celebrate Dara following Bulgaria\u2019s first-ever victory at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026. <\/p>\n<p>          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Images showed the singer performing her winning song \u201cBangaranga\u201d as crowds waved Bulgarian flags and cheered. <\/p>\n<p>The city organised a large-scale celebration featuring multiple stages, a red carpet and live television coverage. <\/p>\n<p>Sofia Mayor Vasil Terziev presented Dara with the symbolic key to the city during the event. <\/p>\n<p>Dara won Eurovision in Vienna with 516 points and later said she hoped the victory would help unite people through music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of fans filled Alexander I Battenberg Square in Sofia on Tuesday to celebrate Dara following Bulgaria\u2019s first-ever&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[211251,211255,146,85,46,409,211256,211252,211258,211254,211257,211253],"class_list":["post-452294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-id30630","tag-id38","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-slugbulgaria","tag-slugeurovision-2026","tag-titlebulgaria","tag-titleeurovision-2026","tag-urlsafevaluebulgaria","tag-urlsafevalueeurovision-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}