Romica Puceanu
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Romica Puceanu was a Roma singer and interpreter of urban lăutărească
music from Romania
.
She started to sing professionally when she was 14 years, with the "Brothers Gore taraf", one of the most famous taraf
uri of the time. She was highly appreciated for her unique voice and for the sensibility of her singing, being compared to Billie Holiday
and Cesária Évora
.
Despite her professional success, she had an unhappy love-life which lead to some drinking problems, which also affected her voice in the later part of her life.
Romica Puceanu died as a result of a car accident in 1996.
She was married to the accordion
ist Bebe Şerban (also known as "Bebe de la Petrichioaia" - "Bebe from Petrichioaia"). Cornelia Teişanu, her niece, is also a singer.
Lautari
The Romanian word Lăutar denotes a class of traditional musicians. Most often, and by tradition, Lăutari are members of a professional clan of Romani musicians , also called Ţigani lăutari. The term is derived from Lăută the name of a string instrument...
music from Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
.
She started to sing professionally when she was 14 years, with the "Brothers Gore taraf", one of the most famous taraf
Taraf
- External links :*. Website of Taraf ....
uri of the time. She was highly appreciated for her unique voice and for the sensibility of her singing, being compared to Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
and Cesária Évora
Cesária Évora
Cesária Évora is a Cape Verdean popular singer. Nicknamed the "barefoot diva" for performing without shoes, Évora is perhaps the best internationally known practitioner of "morna."-Early life:...
.
Despite her professional success, she had an unhappy love-life which lead to some drinking problems, which also affected her voice in the later part of her life.
Romica Puceanu died as a result of a car accident in 1996.
She was married to the accordion
Accordion
The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
ist Bebe Şerban (also known as "Bebe de la Petrichioaia" - "Bebe from Petrichioaia"). Cornelia Teişanu, her niece, is also a singer.