No Angels Encouraged to chance her luck in the professional music business, Diakovska decided to audition for the 2000 debut of the German reality television program
Popstars. She entered the competition with thousands of other women, and the judges,
Simone Angel, Rainer Moslener and Mario M. Mendrzycki, were impressed with her performance in
Hamburg. She earned a position in the top thirty finalists and immediately travelled to
Mallorca, Spain to join her competitors for a workshop there. In the end Diakovska made it to the final ten on the show, and during a special episode in November 2000, jury member Moslener disclosed that she was chosen to become part of the final girl group
No Angels. With the final five members of the band in place,
Popstars continued tracking the development and struggles of the group who left homes to move into a shared flat near
Munich. However, it took another four months until the band released their debut single "
Daylight in Your Eyes", which would subsequently appear on the band's debut album ''
Elle'ments (2001). Both the single and the album became an unexpected but record-breaking success, when both instantly entered the top position on the Austrian, German and Swiss Media Control'' singles, albums and airplay charts, making No Angels one of the most successful debuts in years. In the following years No Angels released another two number-one studio albums,
Now ... Us! and
Pure, a live album and a successful
swing album branded
When the Angels Swing, totalling twelve singles altogether – including four-number one singles. Eventually selling more than five million singles and albums worldwide, No Angels became the best-selling German girl band to date and the most successful girl group of
continental Europe between the years of 2001 and 2003. On 5 September 2003, the four remaining members of the band (
Jessica Wahls had left the band following the birth of her first child in February 2003) announced that they would no longer be performing together after three years of continual touring and increasing cases of illness. The release of
The Best of No Angels in November of the same year marked the end of the band, with each member going their separate ways in early 2004. Lucy re-joined No Angels who made a powerful revival. In March 2008 they were selected to represent Germany at the
Eurovision Song Contest 2008 finals in
Belgrade in May. This is an honour for Lucy. She, however, was not the first Bulgarian to represent Germany in the Eurovision finals. In 1964 this was done by
Nora Nova. ==Personal life==