Ovidiu Lipan 'Ţăndărică' (born January 30, 1953, in Iaşi

Iasi

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) is a Romania

Romania

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n drummer.

He played between 1966 and 1975 with the Romanian rock band Roşu şi Negru. In 1975 he joined Transsylvania Phoenix

Transsylvania Phoenix

Transsylvania Phoenix is a Romanian rock band formed in 1962 in Timişoara by guitarists Nicu Covaci and Kamocsa Béla. Guitarist Claudiu Rotaru, vocalist Florin "Moni" Bordeianu and drummer Ioan "Pilu" Ştefanovici completed the early lineup...

. In 1977 he settled in Germany

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, but after 1990 he moved back to Romania

Romania

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. Now he has solo projects and also plays with Phoenix. His 2007 album Iskender, a collaboration with Stelu Enache and Gheorghe Zamfir

Gheorghe Zamfir

Gheorghe Zamfir is a Romanian pan flute musician.Zamfir is known for playing an expanded version of the traditional Romanian-style pan flute of 20 pipes to 22, 25, 28 and 30 pipes to increase its range, and obtaining as many as eight overtones from each pipe by changing the embouchure.He is...

, featured reinterpretations of traditional Macedonian songs. The arrangements feature Greek, Roma, Slavic, and Celtic touches, among others, in a manner designed to reflect Romania's multiculturalism.

Lipan has a son, a musician who lives in Germany.

Discography

• Visul Toboşarului (1999)
• Renaşterea (2001)
• Aniversare (2003)
• Bachiţa (2004)
• Getica (2004)
• Visul Tobosarului , re-edit (2005)
• La Passion (2006)
• Iskender (2007) - With Gheorghe Zamfir
  Gheorghe Zamfir
  Gheorghe Zamfir is a Romanian pan flute musician.Zamfir is known for playing an expanded version of the traditional Romanian-style pan flute of 20 pipes to 22, 25, 28 and 30 pipes to increase its range, and obtaining as many as eight overtones from each pipe by changing the embouchure.He is...
  
   and Stelu Enache

with Phoenix (see Transsylvania Phoenix

Transsylvania Phoenix

Transsylvania Phoenix is a Romanian rock band formed in 1962 in Timişoara by guitarists Nicu Covaci and Kamocsa Béla. Guitarist Claudiu Rotaru, vocalist Florin "Moni" Bordeianu and drummer Ioan "Pilu" Ştefanovici completed the early lineup...

):

• Cantafabule (1975)
• Transsylvania (1981)
• Timişoara (1992)
• Aniversare 35 (1997)
• Baba Novak (2005)

with Madhouse:

• From the East (1979)
• Giacca de Blue (1979)

with Roşu şi Negru:

• Roşu şi Negru, single (1971)
• Leopardul, single (1971)
• Oameni de Zapada, single (1974)
• Imnul Copiilor, single (1974)

with Lipan Connection:

• Excalibur, single (1997)
• Transilvania (1998)