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.