Vlad Miriță or Vlad (born 2 August 1981 in

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; ) is a

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pop and

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singer. He represented

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in the

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. At age 16, Vlad began formal training in music. Throughout his education, he worked with the Armonia Valahă Choir and performed at various national and international events. After receiving private lessons from the famed Maestro Corneliu Fănățeanu in 2001, he joined an Eastern European chamber choir called Madrigal. Vlad went on to win several contests, including Mamaia, the National Pop Festival, in 2002 and was a runner-up in the 2005 International Tenor Voices festival "Traian Grozăvescu", which was held in

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. In 2007 and 2008, Vlad was honored as a scholarship holder of the Opera House Bucharest. On 20 May 2008 Vlad performed the duet "

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" with

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, another Romanian singer, as that country's entry in the final for the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2015 the singer was chosen by

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to provide the Romanian voice of Hugo in the animated movie

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Vlad and Nico's Eurovision Profile
1981 births Living people Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2008 Opera crossover singers Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Romania Romanian male pop singers 21st-century Romanian male singers 21st-century Romanian singers {{romania-singer-stub