Nicolae Guță

Nicolae Guță (Romanian pronunciation: [nikoˈla.e ˈɡut͡sə] is a Romani (Gypsy) manele singer.

Nicolae Guță
Background information
Also known asRegele Manelelor
GenresManele
Occupation(s)Musician
Years active1996 - Present

Musical career

Guță started as a singer and accordionist in the late 1980s, 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" (Romanian: "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 (including electric guitars and synthesizers).[1][2]

Starting around 1998 Guță developed a growing interest in manele music, a club-friendly subgenre of Balkans folk music influenced by Turkish and Arab pop, similar to what is known in former Yuguslavia as turbo-folk 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 pop 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 of Hari Mata Hari's "Lejla", the third-placed entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, renaming it "Cine ești?" (Who Are You?).

gollark: It haunts my dreams, but otherwise no.
gollark: Interpreters, compilers, same* thing.
gollark: What more do you need?
gollark: Just patch the interpreter for better TCP?!
gollark: Do so IMMEDIATELY.

References
  1. Keefner, Kurt. The Greatest Living Gypsy Voice, allmusic.com (retrieved May 5, 2010)
  2. The Greatest Living Gypsy Voice Archived 2010-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, cdroots.com (retrieved May 5, 2010)
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