Ken Lee (meme)

Valentina Hasan (born in the village of Zvezdelina) ==The audition==

In late February 2008, Hasan appeared on a series of auditions for the second season of Music Idol in Plovdiv. She told the jury that she was going to sing "a song from Mariah Carey, Ken Lee", to which one of the juries corrected Hasan referring to Without You, and, after that, she would sing Katerino Mome, a folk song from Pirin. Questioned by the jury on the language of Ken Lee, she simply said that it was in English. ==Repercussion==

By 5 March, video of the TV version of the audition was spread on YouTube, receiving more than 100,000 views and over 400 comments within less than a week, a record for a Bulgarian video at the time. On 10 March, Nova TV's program Gospodari na efira featured footage of recent performances of auditions from Music Idol, all of them singing in garbled English, ending with Ken Lee as the highlight. Aware of the success, Hasan did a live performance on Music Idol on 12 March, singing the entire song. In April, Mariah Carey was invited by Canal+'s Le Grand Journal. The presenter showed the Ken Lee video to Carey, asking her if Valentina Hasan should get a career, to which she said that Hasan couldn't make a career based on her audition alone. ==References in popular culture==

• Part of the chorus of Ken Lee was featured in the lyrics of Plamen Sivov's song Tochka BG (Dot BG), released in January 2011. ==References==