Nicolae Linguraru is a

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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.

Musical career

Guță started as a singer and

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in the late

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, playing lăutărească music. He released his debut album in 1992. Two years later, he released his first mainstream hit – "De când te iubesc pe tine" (

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: "Since I've Been Loving You"), featured on his second long-play record. His first album for a foreign audience was released in France, in 1996; while Romanian musical critics hardly had any reaction towards his music, the journalists abroad would show their appreciation and dub his music a very modern fashion of

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(including

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s and

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s).Keefner, Kurt. ''The Greatest Living Gypsy Voice'' allmusic.com (retrieved May 5, 2010)''The Greatest Living Gypsy Voice''
, cdroots.com (retrieved May 5, 2010) Starting around 1998 Guță developed a growing interest in

music, a club-friendly subgenre of

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folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...

influenced by Turkish and Arab pop, similar to what is known in former Yugoslavia as

turbo-folk Turbo-folk (sometimes referred as pop-folk or popular folk) is subgenre of contemporary pop music with its origins in Serbia, that initially developed during the 1980s and 1990s, with similar music styles in Bulgaria (chalga), Romania (manele ...

and narodna and in Bulgaria as

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. Guță had an important role in the advancement of manele (which were a fairly new musical trend at that time) and brought in influences from

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pop and hip hop music. Some of his songs are: "Aş renunţa", "Am greșit și eu", "Dacă vrei", and "Doar tu". In 2007, Guță released a

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's " Lejla", the third-placed entry in the

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, renaming it "Cine ești?" (Who Are You?).

References

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