Margit Bangó (born 4 April 1950) is a Hungarian singer and entertainer.

Biography

Bangó was born into a

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musical family under the name Margit Szabó, her father played the dulcimer and her mother sang. In 1967, at the age of 17, with the encouragement of her mother, she applied to

Magyar Rádió Magyar Rádió (, MR, ''The Hungarian Radio Corporation'', also known as ''Radio Budapest'') was Hungary's publicly funded radio broadcasting organisation until 2015. It was also the country's official international broadcasting station. Since ...

's talent search competition, after which the station recorded her. In the 1980s, Horváth had a joint program with Pista on state television. In 1985, Bangó appeared in the film Átok és szerelem, in which she played the role of Punka. At the beginning of the 1990s, she started performing with the

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Personal life

Bangó married young; her first husband was Lajos Bangó, but their marriage only lasted a year and a half. Their daughter,

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, was born from this relationship. After her divorce with her first husband, she could no longer leave the name Bangó, with this name, along with Lajos Bangó, she entered the musical public consciousness as Margit Bangó, and has been using it as her stage name ever since. Bangó later remarried, and for ten years he was with Sándor Járóka. She was once the youngest grandmother in the country.

Discography

CD

* Voor Jan Cremer (1990) * Kék nefelejcs, el ne felejts – Evergreens * Legkedvesebb cigánydalaim * Benned láttam életemnek minden boldogságát * Kik is a cigányok * Mulassatok cigányok * Reggelig csak mulatunk... * Halk zenével gyógyítom a lelkem * Benned láttam életemnek minden boldogságát (2000) * Halk zene szól az éjszakában (2001) * A szeretet dalai (2002) * Felnézek a nagy égre (2004) * Két gitár (2007) * Mulatok, mert jól érzem magam (2008) * 40 év – jubileumi koncert (2009) * Minden nap, minden éjszakán (2010) * Gipsy Mediterrán (2016)

DVD

* Sej, haj cigányélet * 40 év – jubileumi koncert (2009)

Awards

In 2006, Bangó was honored with the

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, Hungary's most prestigious arts award.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bango, Margit 1950 births Living people People from Vásárosnamény Hungarian Romani people Hungarian folk singers Hungarian women folk singers Romani women singers Romani singers 20th-century Hungarian women singers 21st-century Hungarian women singers Recipients of the Kossuth Prize