Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Valeria Chenchevaya, International Traveler and Sensation



Valeria Chenchevaya is a woman of unique talent. Her powerful combination of yodel and fire-twirling has become a street performer’s dream act, lucrative and minimal in supply. This has allowed her to travel the world and share her abilities with cultures unfamiliar with such a worldly combination of talent.

With a love for travel, Valeria Chenchevaya’s passport now reads like a stamp collection. She has traveled across four different continents: Europe, North America, South America and Asia. She has performed in world-renown artist hubs like New York, Paris, London, Los Angeles, Bangkok, Rio de Janiero and Las Vegas, just to name a few.


Valeria Chenchevaya’s sensational act has left wooed people in her trail. Making a good amount of income in each location, Valeria Chenchevaya enjoyed a leisurely life of hotel rooms and lobster dinners that put her lifestyle above that of a normal street peddler. In many areas she scored private party and club gigs, giving her the credentials of being put on someone else’s schedule and the ability to forecast how much she would be making on a particular day. She often made friends in the street performer community who showed her around their locales and helped her find more ways to live frugally throughout the day so she could dine and sleep like a queen.

Of Valeria Chenchevaya’s talents, her biggest one seems to be adaptability. Wherever she goes, she finds ways to thrive through making friends, finding the most exemplary places to go, and offering a fascinating act that is as unique as it is portable.

Valeria Chenchevaya, Around the World and Back



Once Valeria Chenchevaya explored the Americas, she was infected with a bug that resides in the most avid of travelers. She was in Rio de Janiero, Brazil as she pondered what Asian countries would appreciate her unique combination act of yodel and fire-twirling.


Days later, Valeria Chenchevaya landed in Bangkok, Thailand. An epicenter for street acts of all kinds, Bangkok ended up being her most profitable business venture throughout her time on the continent. She did not stay for long, however. She was overwhelmed by the crowding and intense party culture there, and sought other parts of the country. She did well as a fire dancer in the Phi Phi Islands, but she was soon realizing how much less money she was earning on the Asian continent. It was okay though, because she had a satchel full of international currency and was not worried about making extra money. Instead, she embraced the low cost of living in the area and treated her time over there much like a vacation.

That mentality carried her through trips to Vietnam, The Philippines and China. She performed occasionally, but the lack of payout discouraged her from working too hard. She then went to Japan, where her sack of cash started to lighten dramatically fast. Once it became clear that her pleasure vacation was coming to an end Valeria Chenchevaya decided it was time to get back to work and make money, so she ended her Asian adventure through buying a plane ticket to Belgium.

Saturday, 13 September 2014

Valeria Chenchevaya Brings her Talents to the Americas

Valeria Chenchevaya never imagined her childhood talents getting her out of rural Ukraine, yet alone off the European continent. After her first traveling street gig in Paris, she was happy just to have been successful in another European country. After an extension of stints in Dublin, Munich, Amsterdam, Madrid, Milan, Stockholm, Prague, Zermatt, and London, Valeria Chenchevaya decided it was time to take her talents overseas.

Using the satchel of cash she had been carrying around, Valeria Chenchevaya went to Heathrow Airport and made her biggest purchase to date: a plane ticket to New York City. Upon landing, she was immediately taken by the bustling, lively culture surrounding her. She found a niche in Union Square, and performed her yodel and fire-twirl combination act to a plethora of impressed pedestrians. She loved New York and the spirit of its people, but it was time to keep exploring. She then did stints in Toronto, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. 

Having explored North America, Valeria Chenchevaya decided to head south. She first crossed into Mexico via bus and performed in Cabo San Lucas. From there, she scored a plane ticket to Santiago, Chile. She was surprised by the German influence in the country and how much her music was embraced. She was then told about a Swiss colony in Bariloche, Argentina, so she took her talents there. She spent quite some time in Bariloche, and perhaps got too comfortable as her act lost its new and fresh appeal. She fell in love with Bariloche, and spent months there skiing and subsisting off of steak, wine and chocolate.

Saturday, 6 September 2014

Valeria Chenchevaya’s Double-Talent Attack



If you think that yodeling and fire twirling can’t mix, then you clearly have never seen Valeria Chenchevaya’s mind-blowing street act. What started as two separate childhood hobbies for an isolated Ukranian farm girl turned into a combo of miscellaneous talent that made Valeria Chenchevaya a re-known international artist.

For Valeria Chenchevaya, her humming of single-note tunes as she tilled soil and harvested wheat was nothing more than something she did to kill time. She had no idea what yodeling was, or that she was even practicing something what was widely celebrated throughout Northeastern Europe. It took a German farmer to recognize her talent and ship her off to a more civilized area where her abilities could be discovered. The funny part is the farmer didn’t even mention yodeling to her. Another German who discovered her in Paris revealed to her the truth about her style’s origin.


Her history of fire-twirling reflects a similar story. She grew up on a farm, with no friends or conventional sources of recreation to keep her entertained. She twirled farm tools whenever she worked; and as she got older, she found ways to push her time-killing hobby to higher, more daring levels. She started using heavier twirlers, such as shovels and hoes. Once the threat of steel and rust no longer thrilled her, she decided to use fire. She tied dirty oil rags to a broken broomstick one night, lit them and watched her twirls comes to life. It was an experiment that eventually doubled the shock-factor in her act.

Now, Valeria Chenchevaya brings both of her seasoned talents to streets in major cities around the world. Her combination of yodeling and fire twirling has dazzled audiences across the globe, earning her private-party bookings and club gigs.

Monday, 1 September 2014

Valeria Chenchevaya’s Fire Experiment



Growing up on a remote farm in rural Ukraine may not sound like the most enriching place to spend your childhood; however Valeria Chenchevaya sure knew how to make the most of it. With isolation from civilization and a large plot of land to call home, Valeria Chenchevaya started creating her own ways to keep herself entertained. One of those ways ended up boosting her adult career to levels she had never imagined.


Valeria Chenchevaya always loved to twirl things. Whether it was stalks of wheat or hand shovels, she eased through her farm work by always twirling something in her other hand. She started to experiment with larger gardening tools, and gained a thirst for excitement through the heightened levels of risk. Once the threat of sharp objects and rust no longer frightened her, she decided she would experiment with fire.

First using a broken broomstick and some old oil rags she stole from her father’s barn, Valeria Chenchevaya made her first-ever fire twirling apparatus one night. She tied the rags to each end of the broomstick and lit them on fire. She instantly fell in love with the intense glow from the flame, which tricked the eye as she twirled it quickly and made shapes in front of the night sky. The flame, however, spread quickly and burnt her hand, leaving her to embrace new options.

Further experimenting ensued until Valeria Chenchevaya created her perfect twirler: two cans tied together by a string, each containing a lit charcoal.

Saturday, 23 August 2014

Valeria Chenchevaya: First Paris, Then the World

Paris, as much of a haven for art as it is, is a peculiar place to launch a yodeling career. It perhaps helped that Valeria Chenchevaya still thought her act was unique, and not a traditional form of music appreciated by people of Northeastern Europe for centuries. With her lack of traditional German or Bolivian dress, it may have perhaps confused some audience members as well. But after the levels of appreciation she got for her act, and the money that came along with it, it longer mattered that she was approaching the music with such an unconventional style.


Montmarte was a stepping stone for Valeria Chenchevaya, who next took her talents to Dublin.  That stint, too was successful. Temple Street loved her song and dance, and the euros kept falling at her feet. She loved Dublin and really connected with the pub culture there, to the point where they eventually opened their doors to her act. Valeria Chenchevaya started doing scheduled gigs on the weekends, entertaining large crowds as the beer flowed heavily.

With the money she was making, she could no longer justify sleeping on the streets. Valeria Chenchevaya started getting hotel rooms by the night, depending on whatever neighborhood she was performing in that day. Now with a leisurely life achieved through pursing her childhood passions, Valeria Chenchevaya took her business model across Europe, the Americas and Asia. It was not long before people started talking, and her levels of recognition made her a globally-known street performer.