Nicolae Linguraru is a
Romani
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** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule
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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
accordionist
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in the late
1980s
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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" (
English: "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
Gypsy jazz
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(including
electric guitar
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s and
synthesizer
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s).
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, cdroots.com (retrieved May 5, 2010)
Starting around 1998 Guță developed a growing interest in
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 ...
music, a club-friendly subgenre of
Balkans
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folk music
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influenced by Turkish and
Arab pop
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, similar to what is known in former Yugoslavia as
turbo-folk
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and
narodna and in Bulgaria as
chalga. 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
Western
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pop
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Albums
* ''Pop'' (G ...
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
cover version
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of
Hari Mata Hari
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's "
Lejla", the third-placed entry in the
Eurovision Song Contest 2006
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, renaming it "Cine ești?" (Who Are You?).
References
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Living people
Romanian manele singers
Romani musicians
Romanian accordionists
Romanian Romani people
Lăutari and lăutărească music
21st-century accordionists
Year of birth missing (living people)