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The term could be translated literally as "Romanian Easy Music" and, in the most common sense, this music is synonym with "Muzică de stradă" (from French "estrade", which means "podium"), defining a branch of Pop music developed in Romania after World War II, which appears generally in the form of easy danceable songs, made on arrangements ...
Eduard Caudella (1841–1924), composer, wrote the first Romanian opera, Petru Rareș; Sergiu Celibidache (1912–1996), composer and conductor; Paul Constantinescu (1909–1963), composer, especially of religious and vocal music, also wrote music for Romanian films; Vladimir Cosma (born 1940), composer, conductor and violinist
[8] [9] Apart from reaching high peak positions and attaining certifications in almost every major music market, "Stereo Love" is the only documented Romanian song to chart in Brazil (number eight), as well as the highest Romanian peak in Canada (number ten in an alternative version released with Canadian singer Mia Martina) and the United ...
The Romanian Top 100 was also featured in Billboard 's Music & Media magazine until 2003, [6] [7] and was—apart from a weekly Kiss FM podcast in the 2010s—announced on its own website. [3] [8] As of 2024, the Romanian Top 100 lacks usable archives, especially for the late 1990s and 2000s.
Romania's entry into the European Union in 2007 facilitated local musicians' and songwriters' contact with international music. [3] One of the earliest examples of popcorn music is the song "Sexy Thing" (2008) by David Deejay and Dony. [4] It is featured on their 2010 studio album Popcorn, after which the genre is named. [1] [5]
In Romania, the syntagm muzică populară (English: popular/folk music) is used to denote a musical genre based on folklore, but distinct from it. The distinction is both in form and essence and it arises mainly from the commercial aspect of the popular music. [1] In English the term is ambiguous since it could also refer to Romanian pop music.
Romanian rock is a genre of popular music in Romania. It was influenced by changes in Romanian politics to such an extreme, that both the themes and styles of musicians, and the tastes and interests of listeners, changed dramatically with every major event in Romania's internal politics.
Romania portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Musicians from Romania . This category is for articles about musicians from the European country of Romania .