Nelly's star rose in 2002 when fate met her with the music company "Piner". The song "Look me in the eyes" became a total hit, and Nelly became one of the favorite new names in Bulgarian music. Quite naturally, her debut album "Look Me in the Eye" (2002) became the best-selling music album.

For almost 20 years of her professional creative career, Nelia is among the Bulgarian artists who have won the most and some of the most prestigious awards for music, beauty and style. She has sung hundreds of hits, has 8 solo albums in her discography, has participated in dozens of concerts of the stars of "Piner", as well as several solo. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Nelia is among the preferred duet partners for many artists - Ilian, Miro, Gumzata, Denis Theofikov, Damian Popov, Radko, Preslava, Julia, Vanya, Gergana, Paloma, Giorgos Giasemis, Kyriacos Georgiou and others.