Dona Dumitru Siminică

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Virtually unknown outside his native Romania, with a perfectly pencil-thin mustache and a voice that flutters in mid-air, Siminică packed cafes and clubs in Bucharest in the 1960s. The tables filled with guests almost as quickly as the glasses with tuica or wine and the patron's till with Lei. Dona Dumitru Siminica sang songs which offered consolation to the lonely, tended the wounds of the lovesick, and prepared those newly-infatuated for the end of their love. Siminica had a disturbing, androgynous falsetto voice and a large number of female fans who hung on to every word uttered by the man in the bespoke suit with the immaculate hairstyle and carefully clipped moustache for nights on end. For his best recordings Dona Dumitru Siminica assembled a Lautari dream team around himself. Faramita Lambru, Maria Tanase's favourite accompanist, played classics with Dona Dumitru Siminica such as "Afara e intuneric" and "La salul cel negru". His sudden death in the eighties did not make the headlines in the Romanian party-controlled press. There are no written documents, no interviews, and no books about this extraordinary singer. Nothing can tell us more about the phenomenon of Dona Dumitru Siminica than his recordings, which bring back the sound of old Bucharest before it is completely forgotten. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

top songs

albums

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Balkan Blues (Disc 2)

Sounds From a Bygone Age, Volume 3

Cantece Lautaresti

sounds from a bygone age, vol. 3

sounds from a bygone age - vol. 3

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The Rough Guide To The Music Of Romanian Gypsies

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Balkan Blues [Disc 2]

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Sounds From A Bygone Age Vol. 3

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Balkan Blues

Romanian Retro Music / Dona Dumitru Siminica, Volume 1

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Muzică de colecție

sounds from a bygone age · vol.3

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