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Artist
Nicolae Guță
12+ albums
maneleRomanian
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Nicolae Guţă ([nikɒlɑːɛ ɡʊtsə], born Nicolae Linguraru on December 3, 1967 in Petroşani, Romania, is an ethnic Gypsy manele and Gypsy jazz singer. He is the father of manele and ethno pop singer Nicoleta Guţă. Guţă started as a singer and accordionist in the late 1980s. 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 abroad was released in France, in 1996; while Romanian musical critics hardly had had any reaction towards Guţă's music, the journalists abroad would show their appreciation and dub his music a very modern fashion of Gypsy jazz (including electric guitars and synthesizers). However, starting around 1998 Guţă developed a growing interest in manele music, a fast-paced subgenre of Balkans folk music somewhat resembling to Arab pop. Guţă 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 famous manele are: "Aş renunţa", "Am greşit şi eu", "Dacă vrei", "Doar tu". In 2007, Guţă released a cover version of Hari Mata Hari's "Lejla", the third-placed entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, renaming it "Cine eşti?" (Who are you?). User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
