BIOGRAPHY
Life is like a river, every twist, turn, current takes us towards what we are meant to do as we are flowing (passing) through this world.
Every one of us brings something unique to this world, therefore every one of us has something unique to offer to those around. I can only but thank God that He placed a morsel of His glory in me, by giving me this gift of singing, gift that I long with all of my heart to share with you.
I was born close to midnight on a Sunday of the year 1970, on December 27, to be precise, under the sign of the Capricorn. My birthplace is a small town in the mountaneous region of Banat called Otelu Rosu ( name translated in English as Red Steel), however in my grandparents' days the same town was known as Ferdinandsberg.
Being born in a family with a mixed ethnic background ( German, Hungarian, Romanian) my love for music was obvious even since my childhood years. I have an older brother that followed in my father's footsteps and works in electronics while I inherited my mothers's passion for music.
When I was 12 I attended for a season "The Music Circle" from "the Pioneers Club". It was here that I first started studying the guitar, however I might just go ahead and call myself a self-instructed student.
During the secondary school I became an active member of the musical group called "stelutele" (in English "Little Stars")- associated with the "Pioneers Club". I have received several awards, the most significant being the second price, at the national level "Cantarea Romaniei" festival.
I graduated from my local highschool in 1989, at a time when the school had an "industial" specialty education profile.
After 1990, I started collaborating with the childrens choir "voinicelul"- conducted by prof Adriana Caciuc. During this time I took part in several shows both in Romania and abroad, accompanying the little ones. The most important show was at the "Children's Musical Festival" in Weiz, Austria.
In 1997 I became a member of the German Folk Dancing group at the German Forum in Otelu Rosu. Together with this group we held shows in Romania, Germany and Austria.
In 1999 I won my first FIRST PRIZE, at the "German music creation contest" in Timisoara. Here I presented a self-written composition, inspired by the words of a german poet Peter Bart from my hometown.
Afterwads, for several years I continued my work with the childrens' choir as well as the dancing group and we appeared both on radio and TV and did recordings.
In 2004 I became a member of the "Si Totusi Iubirea" club lead by the poet Adrian Paunescu. This was the moment when I started to consider more and more the FOLK genre of music.
If my first compositions,during teenage years materialized into "country" style songs and were written in English, there followed also some compositions that could fit the folk genre.
With this in mind, I attended in 2005 the folk music camp held in Calafat, and later registred to sing at the first ever folk festival "Poarta sarutului" in Tg Jiu. Here I received the first prize. In the same year I was selected to be member of the group of competitors that represented Romania at Lovech Festival in Bulgaria.
In October 2007, at the first edition of "Coroana" Brasov festival I won the second prize.
A month later I participated at the second edition of the "Omul cu o chitara" festival in Braila and I received the grand prize. This was the turning moment when I decided to stop going to competition focused festivals, despite the fact that I only attended three festivals total
A month later I started the work on what became my first album. Given that my first ever recital as a songwriter was in Cluj, a city that I am feeling dearly connected to, I chose Cluj as my "work" place.
I started the recordings for the "Nu mai sunt eu" ( I am not myself anymore) project alongside three members of "Hazard" rock band and I was able to finalize this project in 2008.
To current date I have several appearances both on radio and TV programs.