Ileana Sărăroiu
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Ileana Sărăroiu () (25 September 1936, Valea Voievozilor,
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– 12 May 1979, Unirea,
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) was a Romanian singer of traditional and popular folk music. Her two signature songs are: "Doi voinici din Valea Mare" (Two Handsome Lads from the Valea Mare) and "Unde e Târgoviștea" (Where is
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?). The first is a song about two lads who go hunting and encounter two sisters whom they end up marrying. The second is the story of a sad old mother who waits for her son in a train station. She does not see anybody come except a girl who she has never seen before; the girl turns out to be the wife of her son. While singing at a wedding reception, Sărăroiu suddenly collapsed and died from a brain
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in 1979 at the age of 42.


Songs


Doi voinici din Valea Mare
(Two handsome lads from Valea Mare) * (Where is Târgoviște?)
Vrei să ne-ntâlnim sâmbătă seară?
(Do you want to meet on Saturday evening?)
Cine-a pus cârciuma în drum...
(Who made the pub on the road...)
Inimioara cu dor mult
(Little heart with much longing) * (Tonight we will be partying till morning)
Da-ar naiba in tine dragoste
(Love, be damned!) * (You green leaf, wheat ear)
Fir-ar ceasu' afurisit
(That hour, be doomed!)
Pasarica, muta-ti cuibul
(Little Bird, move your nest!)
De ce oare eu te-am cunoscut
(Why did I ever meet you?)
Inima de dor nu stii
(Heart, you don't know the longing)
Inima...
(Heart...)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sararoiu, Ileana 1936 births 1979 deaths People from Dâmbovița County 20th-century Romanian women singers 20th-century Romanian singers Neurological disease deaths in Romania Deaths from intracranial aneurysm Romanian folk singers Romanian women folk singers