Angela Similea (born 9 July 1946 in

1 Decembrie 1 Decembrie is a commune in the south of Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania, composed of a single village, 1 Decembrie. It also included Copăceni village until 2005, when it was split off to form a separate commune. It has a population of 8,206, o ...

Ilfov County Ilfov () is the county that surrounds Bucharest, the capital of Romania. It used to be largely rural, but, after the fall of Communism, many of the county's villages and communes developed into high-income commuter towns, which act like suburbs ...

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) is a Romanian female pop star who was famous for ''Pop Music''

easy listening Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s. It is related to middle-of-the-road (MOR) music and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, n ...

music during the 1980s.Denise Roman ''Denise Roman, Fragmented Identities: Popular Culture, Sex, and Everyday Life in Postcommunist Romania'' (New York: Lexington Books, 2003) 0739121189 – 2007 "In the late 1980s, the most famous Romanian vocalist-stars of ''muzică ușoară'' were Angela Similea, Corina Chiriac, and Mirabela Dauer, together with the rocker Dida Drăgan and the internationally acclaimed Aura Urziceanu..."

The Golden Stag music festival

In the 1970 edition of the

Golden Stag Festival The Golden Stag Festival ( ro, Cerbul de Aur) is the most popular Romanian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Braşov, Romania. History The Golden Stag was first held in 1968, but after 1971 it was banned by the Communist l ...

, that took place in

Brașov Brașov (, , ; german: Kronstadt; hu, Brassó; la, Corona; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Kruhnen'') is a city in Transylvania, Romania and the administrative centre of Brașov County. According to the latest Romanian census (2011), Brașov has a popu ...

, Similea came second, winning The Silver Stag.

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