Adrian Minune (real name Adrian Simionescu, born 24 September 1974) is a
Romanian
Romanian may refer to:
*anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania
**Romanians, an ethnic group
**Romanian language, a Romance language
*** Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language
** Romanian cuisine, tradition ...
manele
Manele (from Romanian, ''fem.'' ''sg.'' manea; ''pl.'' manele, the plural form being more common) is a genre of pop folk music from Romania.
The manele can be divided into "classical manele" and "modern manele". The "classical manele" are a Tu ...
singer of
Romani
Romani may refer to:
Ethnicities
* Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia
** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule
* Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...
descent.
One major hit for the Manele Singer was at the
Neversea Festival in 2019, when the swedish DJ Salvatore Ganacci honored him by playing his famous song “Așa sunt zilele mele”.
Personal life
Adrian Minune married his longtime life-partner Elena in 2004, and has two daughters (Karmen and Adriana) and a son (Adrian Jr.) with her. His mother, Florenţa, who raised him alone since he was two years old, also lives with them.
Filmography
He has made appearances in:
* ''
Gadjo dilo
''The Crazy Stranger'' (original title: ''Gadjo dilo'' – Romanes for ''"Crazy Gadjo"'')The Romanian title of the film is ''Străinul nebun'', "The Crazy Foreigner". In a version subtitled in English by Heidi Wood, TVS Titra Film, offered by ...
'' (1997) as L'Enfant Prodige
* ''
The Rage'' (''Furia'') (2002) as himself
See also
*
Manele
Manele (from Romanian, ''fem.'' ''sg.'' manea; ''pl.'' manele, the plural form being more common) is a genre of pop folk music from Romania.
The manele can be divided into "classical manele" and "modern manele". The "classical manele" are a Tu ...
*
Lăutari
The Romanian word lăutar (; plural: ''lăutari'') denotes a class of musicians.
The term was adopted by members of a professional clan of Romani musicians in the late XVIII century. The term is derived from ''lăută'', the Romanian word for ...
*
Nicolae Guţă
*
Costi Ioniţă
Costi may refer to:
*The Coordinating Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation (COSTI), Sri Lanka
*a Romanian village, part of Vânători, Galați commune
__NOTOC__ People Given name
*Costi Ioniță (born 1978), Romanian musician
* Kon ...
References
Article about Minune's wedding
External links
*
list of top tracksListen to Radio ManeleRadio ManeleRadio Manele Online
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1974 births
Living people
Romani musicians
Romanian Romani people
Romanian manele singers
Lăutari and lăutărească music
21st-century Romanian singers