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Costi Ioniță
Constantin "Costi" Ioniță (; born 14 January 1978) is a Romanian singer regarded as one of the most celebrated ethnic Romanian vocalists of muzică orientală ( manele), and a musician from Constanța.Margaret H. Beissinger, ''"Muzică Orientală": Identity and Popular Culture in Postcommunist Romania'', in Donna A. Buchanan (ed), ''Balkan popular culture and the Ottoman ecumene: music, image, and regional political discourse''. Scarecrow Press, 2007. . pp. 125-126 Career On the 14th of January, 1978, he was born. Born in Constanța and a dentist by training, Costi began his musical career by singing Romanian traditional folkloric music. He however achieved fame as a member of the pop boy band Valahia, enjoying several hits. In 1999, he started to experiment with ''manele'', a composite Balkanic musical style, and in 2000 he collaborated with acclaimed manele singer Adrian Minune on ''Of, viața mea'' ("Oh, my life"), one of the first mainstream successes of the genre in Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constanța
Constanța (, , ) is a city in the Dobruja Historical regions of Romania, historical region of Romania. A port city, it is the capital of Constanța County and the country's Cities in Romania, fourth largest city and principal port on the Black Sea coast. It is also the oldest continuously inhabited city in the region, founded around 600 BC, and among the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest in Europe. As of the 2021 Romanian census, 2021 census, Constanța has a population of 263,688. The Constanța metropolitan area includes 14 localities within of the city. It is one of the largest metropolitan areas in Romania. Ethnic Romanians became a majority in the city in the early 20th century. The city still has small Tatars, Tatar and Greek people, Greek communities, which were substantial in previous centuries, as well as Turkish people, Turkish and Romani people, Romani residents, among others. Constanța has a rich multicultural heritage, as, throughout history, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea (Bulgarian Singer)
Teodora Rumenova Andreeva (; born 23 January 1987), better known by her stage name Andrea (), is a Bulgarian pop-folk singer, songwriter and video director. She was also part of the famous group Sahara,(referencing Sahara and the members of Sahara joining on the Shaggy song) together with the Romanian Grammy Awards nominated producer Costi Ioniță they created the song " I Wanna" in collaboration with Shaggy and Bob Sinclar. The song was distributed by Yellow Productions and Ministry of Sound Australia. The track was on the top charts of Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. Biography and lifestyle Andrea was born in Sofia and raised in an unknown place. She took music lessons at an early age from her aunt who was an opera singer in the Vratsa Opera. During her teenage years she entered and won several beauty pageants (Miss Sofia, Miss Tourism Bulgaria). After graduating high school, she signed with Bulgarian record label Payner. In 2008, Andrea met Costi Ioniță and toget ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage by the United Kingdom and western European nations in the early 20th century as a replacement of the term Near East (both were in contrast to the Far East). The term "Middle East" has led to some confusion over its changing definitions. Since the late 20th century, it has been criticized as being too Eurocentrism, Eurocentric. The region includes the vast majority of the territories included in the closely associated definition of West Asia, but without the South Caucasus. It also includes all of Egypt (not just the Sinai Peninsula, Sinai) and all of Turkey (including East Thrace). Most Middle Eastern countries (13 out of 18) are part of the Arab world. The list of Middle Eastern countries by population, most populous countries in the region are Egypt, Turkey, and Iran, whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romani People
{{Infobox ethnic group , group = Romani people , image = , image_caption = , flag = Roma flag.svg , flag_caption = Romani flag created in 1933 and accepted at the 1971 World Romani Congress , pop = 2–12 million , region2 = United States , pop2 = 1 million estimated with Romani ancestry{{efn, 5,400 per 2000 United States census, 2000 census. , ref2 = {{cite news , first=Kayla , last=Webley , url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2025316,00.html , title=Hounded in Europe, Roma in the U.S. Keep a Low Profile , agency=Time , date=13 October 2010 , access-date=3 October 2015 , quote=Today, estimates put the number of Roma in the U.S. at about one million. , region3 = Brazil , pop3 = 800,000 (0.4%) , ref3 = , region4 = Spain , pop4 = 750,000–1.5 million (1.5–3.7%) , ref4 = {{cite web , url ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Minune
Adrian Minune (real name Adrian Simionescu, born 24 September 1974) is a Romanian manele singer of Romani descent. He was born in the Ștefăneștii de Jos commune near Bucharest, more exactly in the commune centre. Came to fame in the early 2000’s with popular hits such as: “Jumătate tu, Jumătate eu”, “Așa sunt zilele mele”, “Chef de Chef” and “Au inima mea”. He is also recognised by his small stature, previously using the stage name Adrian Copilul Minune (Adrian the Wonder Kid) but this hasn’t stopped him from being one of the most recognised artists in Romania. 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 and a son with her. His mother, Florenţa, who raised him alone since he was two years old, also lives with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balkans
The Balkans ( , ), corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch throughout the whole of Bulgaria. The Balkan Peninsula is bordered by the Adriatic Sea in the northwest, the Ionian Sea in the southwest, the Aegean Sea in the south, the Turkish straits in the east, and the Black Sea in the northeast. The northern border of the peninsula is variously defined. The highest point of the Balkans is Musala, , in the Rila mountain range, Bulgaria. The concept of the Balkan Peninsula was created by the German geographer August Zeune in 1808, who mistakenly considered the Balkan Mountains the dominant mountain system of southeastern Europe spanning from the Adriatic Sea to the Black Sea. In the 19th century the term ''Balkan Peninsula'' was a synonym for Rumelia, the parts of Europe that were provinces of the Ottoman E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boy Band
A boy band is a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their Teenage, teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation. Generally, boy bands perform love songs marketed towards girls and young women. Many boy bands dance as well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances. List of South Korean idol groups, South Korean boy bands usually also have designated rappers. Most boy band members do not play musical instruments, either in recording sessions or on stage. They are similar in concept to their counterparts known as girl groups. Some boy bands are formed on their own, but most are created by talent managers or record producers who hold auditions. The popularity of boy bands has peaked three times: first in the 1960s to '70s, with e.g. the Jackson 5 and the Osmonds; the second time during the late 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s, when acts such as New Kids on the Block, Take That, Backstreet Boys, Boyzone, NSYNC, Five (group), Five, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarecrow Press
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns the book distributing company National Book Network based in Lanham, Maryland. History The current company took shape when the University Press of America acquired Rowman & Littlefield in 1988 and took the Rowman & Littlefield name for the parent company. Since 2013, there has also been an affiliated company based in London called Rowman & Littlefield International. It is editorially independent and publishes only academic books in Philosophy, Politics & International Relations and Cultural Studies. The company sponsors the Rowman & Littlefield Award in Innovative Teaching, the only national teaching award in political science given in the United States. It is awarded annually by the American Political Science Association for people w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Turkish-derived genre performed by Romani musicians called lăutari in a lăutărească manner, while the "modern manele" are a mixture of Turkish, Greek, Arabic, Bulgarian and Serbian elements, generally using modern (electronic) instruments and beats. Similar music styles are also present in other Balkan areas, such as Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia, Greece and Turkey and with expatriates and emigrants originally from these regions. Related genres are Bulgarian ''Chalga'' (manele brought by Romanian visitors to Bulgaria is referred to as "Romanian chalga"), Greek modern '' Skiladiko'' and Serbian ''Turbo-folk'', each one being a mixture of local folk Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian influences over a pop tune. History E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NLE Choppa (rapper)
Bryson LaShun Potts, (born November 1, 2002), known professionally as NLE The Grea'' (previously NLE Choppa and YNR Choppa), is an American rapper and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. He gained recognition with the release of his 2019 single " Shotta Flow", which received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and peaked within the top 40 of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The song preceded his debut extended play (EP), '' Cottonwood'', in December of that year. Potts signed with Warner Records to release his debut studio album ''Top Shotta'' (2020), which peaked within the top ten of the US ''Billboard'' 200 and was supported by the top 40 singles "Camelot" and " Walk Em Down" (featuring Roddy Ricch). His fourth and fifth mixtapes, '' From Dark to Light'' (2020) and '' Me vs. Me'' (2022) preceded the release of his second studio album '' Cottonwood 2'' (2023), which contained his highest-charting single, " Slut Me Out" (remixed featurin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Afrika
Sandra Prodanović ( sr-Cyrl, Сандра Продановић; born 1 April 1988), better known as Sandra Afrika ( sr-Cyrl, Сандра Африка), is a Serbian pop-folk singer. Born in Belgrade, she initially performed as a backup dancer to singer Mile Kitić, before pursuing a music career with the song "Afrika" (2007), from which she also got her stage name. In 2011, she released her self-titled debut CD through DM SAT, featuring previously released songs. Afrika gained more significant popularity following the release of "Neko će mi noćas" (2012). Over the years she has had several collaborations with Romanian recording artist Costi Ioniţă, including "Devojka tvog druga" (2013) and "Bye Bye" (2014). Personal During mid 2000s, Prodanović started dating the nightclub owner Aleksandar "Mikiša" Moskovljević, having met him while performing at his Oziris discotheque in Šabac as a backup dancer in Mile Kitić's stage act. Soon upon commencing the relationship with 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikol Bulat
Nikol Bulat (born 16 October 1987) is a Croatian former singer. Biography Nikol Bulat was born in Šibenik, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia on 16 October 1987. In 2006 she competed for the position of lead singer of Magazin, popular pop music band from Split, after Jelena Rozga had left it. She performed their song "Opijum" (''Opium'') but she lost to Ivana Kovač. In 2008 she became a member of Feminnem. With Feminnem, she recorded songs "Chanel 5" (''Chanel No. 5''), "Poljupci u boji" (''Kisses in Colour'') and "Oye, Oye, Oye", the latter featuring Spanish singer Alex Manga. Despite much success, she didn't fit in the group and subsequently left it. In 2009, she released her debut solo single "Grešnica" (''Sinner''). The year after, she performed a song "Samo mi" (''Just Us'') at Mediafest. At the beginning of 2011, she recorded a duet "Crveni karton" (''Red Card'') with Bosnian singer Ada Grahović and, in June, she announced the songs "Strašno ti stojim" (''I Suit You Terrifica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
