Classical

• George Enescu
  George Enescu
  George Enescu was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Enescu was born in the village of Liveni , Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County. He showed musical talent from early in his childhood. A child prodigy, Enescu created his first musical...
  
   (1881–1955), composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher.
• Ciprian Porumbescu
  Ciprian Porumbescu
  Ciprian Porumbescu was a Romanian composer born in Şipotele Sucevei in Bukovina . He was among the most celebrated Romanian composers of his time; his popular works include Crai nou, Trei culori, Song for the 1st of May, Ballad for violin and piano, and Serenada...
  
   (1853–1883), composer
• Dinu Lipatti
  Dinu Lipatti
  Dinu Lipatti was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy.-Biography:...
  
   (1917–1950), great Romanian pianist and composer
• Marcel Mihalovici
  Marcel Mihalovici
  Marcel Mihalovici was a French composer born in Romania. He was discovered by George Enescu in Bucharest. He moved to Paris in 1919 to study under Vincent d'Indy...
  
   (1898–1985), composer
• Vladimir Cosma
  Vladimir Cosma
  Vladimir Cosma was born April 13, 1940 in Bucharest, Romania, into a family of musicians.His father, Teodor Cosma, was a pianist and conductor, his mother a writer-composer, his uncle, Edgar Cosma, composer and conductor, and one of his grandmothers, pianist, a student of the renowned Ferrucio...
  
   (born 1940), composer, conductor and violinist
• Anton Pann
  Anton Pann
  Anton Pann , was an Ottoman-born Wallachian composer, musicologist, and Romanian-language poet, also noted for his activities as a printer, translator, and schoolteacher...
  
   (1790s-1854), wrote Romania's national anthem and the music of the Orthodox Divine Liturgy
• Grigoraş Dinicu
  Grigoras Dinicu
  Grigoraş Ionică Dinicu was a Romanian composer and violinist or violin virtuoso. He is most famous for his often-played virtuoso violin showpiece "Hora staccato" and for making popular the tune Ciocârlia, composed by his grandfather Angheluș Dinicu for "nai"...
  
   (1889–1949), 20th century composer best known for his violin showpiece Hora staccato
  Hora staccato
  Hora staccato is a virtuoso violin showpiece by Grigoraş Dinicu. It is a short, fast work in a Romanian hora style, and has become a favorite encore of violinists, especially in the 1932 arrangement by Jascha Heifetz. The piece requires an exceptional command of both upbow and downbow staccato...
  
  
• Martian Negrea (1893–1973), composer, teacher and conductor
  Conducting
  Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
  
  . His creation involves all musical forms and genres and is distinguished by a personal melodic inspiration.
• Sabin Dragoi
  Sabin Dragoi
  Sabin Drăgoi was a Romanian composer and specialist on folk music. His wide output included orchestral and chamber works, film music and operas.-Major works:*Constantin Brâncoveanu*Kir Ianulea*Horia*The Misfortune...
  
   (1894–1968), composer and folklorist, is one of pioneers of scientific gathering of Romanian folklore.
• Theodor Rogalski (1901–1954), composer, conductor and pianist, he had composed chamber and symphonic music. He is one of the biggest Romanian masters of orchestration.
• Paul Constantinescu
  Paul Constantinescu
  Paul Constantinescu was a Romanian composer.-Major works:*Piano concerto*Violin concerto*Symphony No.1*The Nativity *A stormy night *Pana Lesnea Rusalim...
  
   (1909–1963), 20th century composer, best known for religious and vocal music, also wrote music for Romanian films
• Tiberiu Brediceanu
  Tiberiu Brediceanu
  Tiberiu Brediceanu was a Romanian composer. He is the father of the composer and conductor Mihai Brediceanu....
  
   (1877–1968) was a Romanian composer and folklorist;
• Ionel Budişteanu (1919–1996) was a Romanian conductor, musician and violin;
• Anatol Vieru
  Anatol Vieru
  Anatol Vieru was a music theoretician, influential pedagogue, and a leading Romanian-Jewish composer of the 20th century. A pupil of Aram Khachaturian, he composed seven symphonies, eight string quartets, numerous concertos, and much chamber music. He also wrote three operas: Iona , Praznicul...
  
   (1926–1998), winner of Herder Prize in 1986, his creation includes symphonic, chamber and choral music.
• Ştefan Niculescu
  Stefan Niculescu
  Ştefan Niculescu was a Romanian composer.Niculescu was born in Moreni, Dâmbovita. He was credited with introducing his own brand of heterophony, a technique based on superimposing melodic material onto variations of itself in order to create textures that are propelled by thematic energy as well...
  
   (1927–2008) is a Romanian composer and teacher from Cluj-Napoca;
• Ion Ivanovici
  Ion Ivanovici
  Ion Ivanovici was a Romanian military band leader and composer, best remembered today for his waltz Waves of the Danube....
  
   (1845–1902), was the composer of The Danube Waves
  The Waves of the Danube
  "Waves of the Danube" is a waltz composed by Iosif Ivanovici in 1880, and is one of the most famous Romanian tunes in the world. In the United States, it is frequently referred to as "The Anniversary Song", a title given by Al Jolson when he and Saul Chaplin released an adaptation of the song in...
  
   waltz;
• Gheorghe Cucu (1882–1932), was a Romanian folklorist and composer;
• Filaret Barbu (1903–1984), was a Romanian composer, well known for the operetta Ana Lugojana;
• Constantin Dimitrescu
  Constantin Dimitrescu
  Constantin Dimitrescu was a Romanian classic composer and music teacher, one of the most prominent representatives of the late Romantic period.-Background:...
  
   (1847–1928), was the composer of Peasant Dance.
• Ion Voicu
  Ion Voicu
  Ion Voicu was a Romanian violinist and orchestral conductor of Romani ethnicity. In 1969 he founded the award-winning Bucharest Chamber Orchestra, which is now conducted by his son Mădălin Voicu....
  
   (1923–1997), was a Romanian violinist;
• Sergiu Celibidache
  Sergiu Celibidache
  - Biography :Celibidache was born in Roman, Romania, and began his studies in music with the piano, after which he studied music, philosophy and mathematics in Bucharest, Romania and then in Paris...
  
   ( 1912–1996 ) was a Romanian composer and conductor;
• Constantin Silvestri
  Constantin Silvestri
  -Early life:Silvestri, born of Austro-Italian-Romanian stock, was brought up on his own by his mother, his father dying from alcoholism and his stepfather dying when the boy was 16. He had learnt how to play the piano and organ before the age of 6. He played the piano in public at 10 and was a...
  
   (1913–1969), was a composer, who lived in England;
• Alexander Flechtenmacher(1823–1829), wasn't a Romanian composer, but lived in Romania; he composed the operetta Baba Harca
• Eduard Caudella
  Eduard Caudella
  Eduard Caudella was a Romanian opera composer, also a violin virtuoso, conductor, teacher and critic. He studied with Henri Vieuxtemps.-Operas:*Harţă Răzeşul *Hatmanul Baltag *Beizadea Epaminonda...
  
   (1841–1924)-wrote the first Romanian opera, Petru Rares
• Teodor Teodorescu-was the composer of the a cappella work Cucul
• Mihail Jora
  Mihail Jora
  Mihail Jora was a Romanian composer, pianist, and conductor.Jora studied in Leipzig with Robert Teichmüller. From 1929 to 1962 he was a professor at the conservatoire of Bucharest. He worked 1928 to 1933 as a director/conductor of the Broadcasting Orchestra in Bucharest...
  
   (1891–1971)-was the Parent of Romanian ballet
  Ballet
  Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
  
  ; important works: Intoarcerea din adancuri, La piata etc.
• Nicolae Kirculescu
  Nicolae Kirculescu
  Nicolae Kirculescu is a Romanian musician. He composed theatre and film music. One his most known compositions is Musical Moment for piano and orchestra, the musical theme of a Romanian television science program named Teleenciclopedia.His compositions include operetta, musical comedy/canzonetta,...
  
   (1903–1985) was a Romanian musician. He composed theatre and film music, amongst which "The Musical Moment, for piano and orchestra", the theme of television programme Teleenciclopedia.
• George Grigoriu (1927–1999) was the composer of The waves of Danube operetta;
• Nicolae Bretan
  Nicolae Bretan
  Nicolae Bretan was a Romanian opera composer, baritone, conductor and music critic.He studied in Cluj, Vienna and Budapest before becoming one of the pioneers of Romanian opera - his opera Luceafarul is cited as the first opera in Romanian...
  
   (1887–1968) was a Romanian opera composer, also baritone, conductor and critic.
• Paraschiv Oprea (1937–2004) was a Romanian conductor, musician and composer;
• Cornel Trăilescu
  Cornel Trailescu
  Cornel Trăilescu is an Romanian opera composer and conductor.-Major works:*Puss in boots *Bălcescu *Love and Sacrifice -Sources:...
  
   (1926-) is a Romanian opera composer and conductor.
• Doina Rotaru
  Doina Rotaru
  Doina Rotaru is a Romanian composer of mostly orchestral and chamber works that have been performed throughout the world. Rotaru studied at the National University of Music and is currently a professor of composition at the same institution.-External links:* * at The Living Composers Project....
  
   (1951-) is a Romanian composer of mostly orchestral and chamber works that have been performed throughout the world.
• Cristian Matei
  Cristian Matei
  Cristian Matei is a Romanian composer. Cristian graduated from the National University of Music from Bucharest, "Master of Fine Arts in Jazz-Pop Music Composition"...
  
   (1977-) is a Romanian composer. Matei studied at the National University of Music from Bucharest, film music composition.
• Viorel Gheorghe (1953-), Romanian-born composer, conductor and music theorist.
• George Balint
  George Balint
  -External links:*...
  
   (1961-) is a Romanian composer.
• Liviu Dănceanu (1954-)is a Romanian composer;
• Dimitrie Cuclin
  Dimitrie Cuclin
  Dimitrie Cuclin was a Romanian classical music composer, musicologist, philosopher, translator, and writer.-Early life:Dimitrie Cuclin was born in the city of Galaţi, a port on the left shore of the Danube. His father was an immigrant from czarist Bessarabia, from the village of Cucleni, near the...
  
   (1885–1978) was a Romanian classical music composer, musicologist, philosopher, translator, and writer.
• Valentin Gheorghiu
  Valentin Gheorghiu
  Valentin Gheorghiu is a Romanian classical pianist and composer.-Biography:Gheorghiu was born in Galaţi, Romania in 1928. He was first a pupil of Constanţa Erbiceanu at the Bucharest Academy of Music and then of Lazare Lévy at the Conservatoire National de Musique in Paris, France...
  
   (1928-) is a Romanian pianist and composer;
• Ludovic Bacs (1930-) is a Romanian composer, conductor and instrumentist;
• Matei Socor (1908–1980) was a composer and musician;
• Mircea Hoinic (1910–1986) was a composer and conductor;
• Ionel Perlea (1900–1970) was a Romanian composer and conductor;
• Cornel Ţăranu (1934-) is a Romanian composer from Cluj-Napoca;
• Bogdan Bradu (1968-) is a Romanian composer, singer and violinist;
• Octavian Nemescu
  Octavian Nemescu
  Octavian Nemescu is a Romanian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, electroacoustic, multimedia, metamusic, imaginary, and ritual works that have been heard throughout Europe and elsewhere. He is the father of Romanian film director Cristian Nemescu.-External links:*...
  
   (1940-) is a Romanian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, electroacoustic, multimedia, metamusic, imaginary, and ritual works that have been heard throughout Europe and elsewhere.
• Pascal Bentoiu
  Pascal Bentoiu
  Pascal Bentoiu is a Romanian Modernist composer.Bentoiu studied harmony, counterpoint and composition with Mihail Jora and piano with Theophil Demetriescu. He spent three years researching the rhythm and harmony of Romanian folk music at the Bucharest Folklore Institute and then began composing...
  
   (1927-) is a Romanian Modernist composer.
• Nicolae Coman (1936-) is a Romanian composer and poet.
• Dan Dediu (1967-) is a Romanian Postmodernist composer highly appreciated worldwide.
• Ana-Maria Avram
  Ana-Maria Avram
  Ana-Maria Avram is a Romanian composer affiliated with the spectral music style. She represents with Iancu Dumitrescu the Hyper-Spectral trend in contemporary avant-garde music....
  
   (1961-) is a Romanian Spectral Music
  Spectral music
  Spectral music is a musical composition practice where compositional decisions are often informed by the analysis of sound spectra. Computer-based sound spectrum analysis using tools like DFT, FFT, and spectrograms...
  
   composer
• Ioan Scarlatescu (1872–1922)

Avant Garde

• Ana-Maria Avram
  Ana-Maria Avram
  Ana-Maria Avram is a Romanian composer affiliated with the spectral music style. She represents with Iancu Dumitrescu the Hyper-Spectral trend in contemporary avant-garde music....
  
  
• Iancu Dumitrescu
  Iancu Dumitrescu
  Iancu Dumitrescu is a Romanian avant-garde composer.- Life and works :Dumitrescu received a master's degree in composition in Bucharest; Alfred Mendelssohn was among his teachers...
  
  
• Octavian Nemescu
  Octavian Nemescu
  Octavian Nemescu is a Romanian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, electroacoustic, multimedia, metamusic, imaginary, and ritual works that have been heard throughout Europe and elsewhere. He is the father of Romanian film director Cristian Nemescu.-External links:*...
  
  
• Ştefan Niculescu
  Stefan Niculescu
  Ştefan Niculescu was a Romanian composer.Niculescu was born in Moreni, Dâmbovita. He was credited with introducing his own brand of heterophony, a technique based on superimposing melodic material onto variations of itself in order to create textures that are propelled by thematic energy as well...
  
  
• Horatiu Radulescu
  Horatiu Radulescu
  Horaţiu Rădulescu was a Romanian-French composer, best known for the spectral technique of composition.-Biography:Rădulescu was born in Bucharest, where he studied the violin privately with Nina Alexandrescu, a pupil of Enescu, and later studied composition at the Bucharest Academy of Music ,...
  
  

Cafe singers

• Jean Moscopol
  Jean Moscopol
  Jean Moscopol was a Romanian singer of the interwar period.-Biography:Moscopol's parents were Greeks. His mother, née Constantinidi, was from Constanţa, while his father originated in Mesembria on the shores of the Aegean Sea. From there he settled in Brăila, where he opened a pastry shop and then...
  
   (pre-war singer reminiscent of Carlos Gardel
  Carlos Gardel
  Carlos Gardel was a singer, songwriter and actor, and is perhaps the most prominent figure in the history of tango. He was born in Toulouse, France, although he never acknowledged his birthplace publicly, and there are still claims of his birth in Uruguay. He lived in Argentina from the age of two...
  
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• Gică Petrescu
  Gica Petrescu
  Gică Petrescu was a prolific Romanian popular music composer and performer. He made his debut at age 18 by joining a student band, having just graduated from the "Gheorghe Şincai" high school in Bucharest. His official debut was made by performing for radio audiences in 1937...
  
  
• Cristian Vasile
  Cristian Vasile
  Cristian Vasile was a Romanian, well-known tango-romance singer between 1928 and 1949, famous for songs like "Zaraza", "Aprinde o ţigară", "Ce să-ţi mai scriu", "Pentru tine am făcut nebunii", "Nunuţo". He died in 1974 in Sibiu...
  
  

House/Dance

• Activ
  Activ
  Activ is a Romanian disco band. Nowadays it is a trance, techno music band. The members of this band are from Arad and Timişoara.-Success:The albums Motive and Superstar were quite successful...
  
  
• Akcent
  Akcent
  Akcent is a Romanian dance-pop act.- Biography :Adrian Claudiu Sînă started the group in 1999. At the time, it consisted of him and his female counterpart, Ramona Barta....
  
  
• Alexandra Stan
  Alexandra Stan
  Alexandra Stan is a Romanian singer-songwriter. She released her debut single in late 2009. The song impacted Romanian mainstream radios in early 2010, peaking at number-eighteen. Her sophomore release, "Mr...
  
  
• AlexUnderbase
• Andra
• David Deejay
  David Deejay
  Adi Cristian Colceru also known as David Deejay , is a DJ, producer and composer from Bârlad, Romania. He studied violin in school, but dropped his studies and began writing songs with the aid of a computer. After moving to Bucharest, he worked with several local producers, and in 2007 started with...
  
  
• DJ Rhino
• Edward Maya
  Edward Maya
  Eduard Marian Ilie , better known as Edward Maya, is a Romanian musician, producer, performer, and composer...
  
  
• Funky DJ's
• Haiducii
  Haiducii
  - Life :Mitrache was born in Bucharest, Romania. After winning the title of Miss Bucharest, she became a singer, model, and actress. She sings in Romanian, in English and in Russian. She participated as the international host of the Festival di Sanremo 2004, and of "Stasera pago io revolution" of...
  
  
• Impact
• Inna
• Lys
  Lys
  Lys may refer to any of the following:Places*The Lys or Leie, a river in France and Belgium*Lys , a stream of Aosta Valley in Italy*Lys, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in France...
  
  
• Morandi
  Morandi (band)
  -Studio albums:-Singles:The single "Angels" sold 1.45 million copies in Russia and went 7x platinum as ring-back tone and gold as realtone. The single "Save me" went 2x platinum with 400,000 copies sold...
  
  
• Fly roject
• Dj Sony [Remixer/Hands Up]

Electronica

• Angor
  Angor
  Angor may refer to:* Angor - Romanian electro-industrial project* Angor animi - a medical symptom;* Angor - a Senagi Papuan language* Champions of Angor - a fictional superhero team in the DC Comics universe....
  
  
• Aria Urbana
• Blanos Distruzos
• Brigada Artistica Urbana
• Adrian Enescu
  Adrian Enescu
  Adrian Enescu is a Romanian composer .As an individual musician, he also pioneered the local electronic scene during the 1970s-80s...
  
  
• Gojira
• K-pital
• Mesmer
• Minus
• Narkoleptik
• DJ Project
  DJ Project
  DJ Project is a Romanian dance music group, initially made up of Gino Manzotti and DJ Maxx as producers and Elena Baltagan as the vocalist...
  
  
• Radio Killer
• Shukar Collective
  Shukar Collective
  Shukar Collective is a Romanian musical group which fuses traditional Romany|Romanes and electronic music. It is especially known for using traditional rhythms employed by the Ursari section of the Roma minority with contemporary electronic sampling...
  
  
• Sunday People
• Șuie Paparude
  Șuie Paparude
  Șuie Paparude is a Romanian music band with a cult following in their native country. They are recognized as having a distinct sound and style, comparable with very few other local bands...
  
  
• Yvat

Folk

• Ducu Bertzi
  Ducu Bertzi
  Ducu Bertzi is a Romanian folk musician. His songs are usually his own compositions, but he also has in his repertoire some Romanian folk songs.-Life:...
  
  
• Alexandru Andries
• Mircea Baniciu
  Mircea Baniciu
  Mircea Baniciu is a Romanian musician. He plays with the bands Transsylvania Phoenix and Pasărea Colibri. While playing with Phoenix, he also earned a BA in architecture.Mircea Baniciu is now married and has two children.- Discography :...
  
  
• Mircea Florian
• Tudor Gheorghe
  Tudor Gheorghe
  Tudor Gheorghe is a Romanian musician, actor and poet known primarily for his politically charged musical career and his collaborations with well known figures of late 20th century Romanian poetry. Tudor's recording work is often associated with anti communist activism and has received much...
  
  
• Adrian Ivaniţchi
  Adrian Ivanitchi
  Adrian Ivaniţchi is a Romanian folk musician and guitarist. He was one of the founding members of Coral, one of the first Romanian beat music groups...
  
  
• Florian Pittis
  Florian Pittis
  Florian Pittiş was a Romanian stage and television actor, theatre director, folk music singer, and radio producer.He attended the Gheorghe Lazăr High School in Bucharest and in 1968 he graduated from the Institute of Theatre...
  
  
• Mircea Bodolan

Folk-rock

• Transsylvania Phoenix
  Transsylvania Phoenix
  Transsylvania Phoenix is a Romanian rock band formed in 1962 in Timişoara by guitarists Nicu Covaci and Kamocsa Béla. Guitarist Claudiu Rotaru, vocalist Florin "Moni" Bordeianu and drummer Ioan "Pilu" Ştefanovici completed the early lineup...
  
  
• Pasărea Colibri
  Pasarea Colibri
  Pasărea Colibri is a Romanian folk supergroup. Aside from typical Romanian folk instruments and acoustic and electric guitars, the band also made use of digital and analogue synthesisers and fretless bass guitar, a somewhat revolutionary approach among Romanian bands in the 90s.The band formed in...
  
  
• Valeriu Sterian
  Valeriu Sterian
  Valeriu Sterian was a Romanian folk and rock musician.-Studies:He studied at the University of Bucharest and obtained a BA in psychology.-Musical activity:...
  
  
• Zdob şi Zdub
  Zdob si Zdub
  Zdob şi Zdub is a Moldovan band, based in Chişinău, whose work for the last several years has combined elements of hip-hop , hardcore punk and comical lyrics with traditional Romanian folk music. The name is onomatopoeic for the sound of a drum beat...
  
   (ethno-rock band from Moldova
  Moldova
  Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
  
   they combine rock
  Rock music
  Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
  
  , hip-hop and metal music with traditional Romanian music and Roma music
  Roma music
  Romani music is the music of the Romani people, who have their origins in Northern India, but today live mostly in Europe....
  
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Folkloric/Ethnic/World

• Maria Tănase
  Maria Tanase
  Maria Tănase was a renowned Romanian singer of Romanian traditional or non-contemporary folklore.-Biography:Born in the Bucharest suburb of Cărămidari, Maria Tănase's Primary School was nr. 11 Tăbăcari. She made her stage debut in Cărămidarii de Jos, at the Ion Heliade Rădulescu High School...
  
  
• Romica Puceanu
• Ileana Sararoiu
  Ileana Sararoiu
  Ileana Sararoiu was a renowned Romanian singer of traditional, popular/folk music...
  
  
• Dona Dumitru Siminică
• Fărâmiță Lambru
  Fărâmiţă Lambru
  Fărâmiţă Lambru was a well known gypsy lăutar from Romania.-Biography:Fărâmiţă Lambru was born in a family of lăutari. As a child, he learned how to sing from his father, Tudor Fărâmiţă. He collaborated with Maria Tănase from 1953 until Maria Tănase died...
  
  
• Ion Dolănescu
  Ion Dolănescu
  Ion Dolănescu was a Romanian singer of popular music and politician.-Songs:* M-am născut printre Carpaţi* Gorjule, grădină dulce* De când sunt pe-acest pământ* Mândro, când ne iubeam noi...
  
  
• Gabi Lunca
  Gabi Lunca
  Gabi Luncă is a Romani singer of urban lăutarească music from Romania, born in Vărbilău, Prahova County.Her father was also a lăutar, a violinist very respected among lăutari because he was a "notist"...
  
  
• Alexandru Cercel
• Fanfare Ciocărlia
  Fanfare Ciocarlia
  Fanfare Ciocărlia is a popular twelve-piece Romani brass band from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece Prăjini. The band began as a loose assemblage of part-time musicians playing at local weddings and baptisms. In October 1996, the German sound engineer and record producer Henry Ernst...
  
  
• Taraful Haiducilor
  Taraful Haiducilor
  Taraf de Haïdouks are a taraf, i.e., a troupe of Romani-Romanian lăutari from the town of Clejani, the most prominent such group in Romania in the post-Communist Era. In the Western world it it has become known by way of French-speaking areas, where they are known as "Taraf de...
  
  
• Mahala Raï Banda
  Mahala Rai Banda
  Mahala Rai Banda is a gypsy band based in Bucharest . It was formed by violinist and composer Aurel Ionitsa, who originally comes from a family of lautari from the village of Clejani. He is related to several members of Taraf de Haïdouks...
  
  
• Dumitru Fărcaş
  Dumitru Farcas
  Dumitru Fărcaş is a Romanian tárogató player. He played the instrument on all major stages in the world and made the tárogató known all over the world....
  
  
• Gheorghe Zamfir
  Gheorghe Zamfir
  Gheorghe Zamfir is a Romanian pan flute musician.Zamfir is known for playing an expanded version of the traditional Romanian-style pan flute of 20 pipes to 22, 25, 28 and 30 pipes to increase its range, and obtaining as many as eight overtones from each pipe by changing the embouchure.He is...
  
   - reported to have sold more than 100 million albums worldwide

Hip-Hop, Rap

• Bitză
  Bitza
  Biță is a Romanian rapper and urban soul musician.He was born in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. His first album was Sevraj in 2004 and...
  
  
• B.U.G. Mafia
  B.U.G. Mafia
  B.U.G. Mafia is a Romanian hip hop group from Pantelimon, Bucharest, widely regarded as one of the seminal acts of gangsta rap in Romania. Founded in 1993, it was among the first Romanian hip hop acts.The original line-up consisted of Vlad "Tataee" Irimia, Dragoş "Caddillac" Vlad-Neagu and two...
  
  
• C.T.C.
  C.T.C.
  C.T.C. is a Romanian hip hop band, founded by VD, Deliric 1, L Doc and DJ Paul....
  
   Controlul Tehnic de Calitate
• Da Hood Justice
• La Familia
• Paraziţii
  Parazitii
  Paraziţii is a Romanian three-man rap and hip hop group founded in 1994. It consists of Cheloo , Ombladon , and FreakaDaDisk .The group is largely known for their dark beats and political humorous lyricism.-History:The group was subject to multiple restrictions by the Romanian National Audiovisual...
  
  
• R.A.C.L.A.
  R.A.C.L.A.
  R.A.C.L.A. was a Romanian hip hop group...
  
  
• Zale
• Anonim
  Anonim
  Anonim were an underground hip hop duo from Bucharest, Romania, consisting of emcees Laurentiu "Guess Who" Mocanu and Zekko. The group was largely known for their dark humour and affiliation with hip hop veterans Paraziţii in their early careers....
  
  
• Spike
• Gonzales
• PreSus
• Just Us
• Guess who
  Guess Who
  Guess Who may refer to:*The Guess Who, a rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada*Guess Who is a 1972 album by B.B. King*Guess Who , a Romanian hip hop artist*Guess Who?, a 1980s guessing game made popular by the Milton Bradley Company...
  
  
• Kazi Ploae
• Specii

Jazz, Acid jazz

• Anca Parghel
  Anca Parghel
  Anca Parghel , Romanian jazz artist, was a singer who excelled in scat, improvisation and vocal percussion...
  
  
• Aura Urziceanu
• Blazzaj
  Blazzaj
  Blazzaj is a Romanian Acid Jazz band founded in 1996 by Eddie Neumann and Florin Barbu as FunkinLeFree. Since August 1998 the band is known as Blazzaj...
  
  
• Johnny Răducanu
  Johnny Raducanu
  Johnny Răducanu was a Romanian jazz pianist of Romani ethnic background, whose family has a long musical tradition dating back to the 17th century....
  
  
• Harry Tavitian
  Harry Tavitian
  Harry Tavitian is a Romanian jazz pianist and singer, whose style covers free-jazz, blues, ethno-jazz and avant-garde. He plays piano solo, as well as with Orient Express septet and with Black Sea Orchestra...
  
  

Pop

• 3rei Sud Est
• Activ
  Activ
  Activ is a Romanian disco band. Nowadays it is a trance, techno music band. The members of this band are from Arad and Timişoara.-Success:The albums Motive and Superstar were quite successful...
  
  
• Akcent
  Akcent
  Akcent is a Romanian dance-pop act.- Biography :Adrian Claudiu Sînă started the group in 1999. At the time, it consisted of him and his female counterpart, Ramona Barta....
  
  
• A.S.I.A.
• Bambi
• Blaxy Girls
  Blaxy Girls
  Blaxy Girls are a Romanian teenagers pop rock girl-band.The group's first single, "If You Feel My Love" became quickly very popular in Romania.The second great hit is called "Dear Mama". The clip was internationally released in the beginning of March, as a present for the women and mothers all...
  
  
• Andreea Bălan
• Andreea Bănică
• Ştefan Bănică, Jr.
  Stefan Banica, Jr.
  Ștefan Bănică, Jr. is a Romanian entertainer, the son of actor Ștefan Bănică. In his early career he starred in a couple of successful romantic films ....
  
  
• Candy
• Celia
• The Cheeky Girls
  The Cheeky Girls
  The Cheeky Girls are a pop duo consisting of twin sisters Gabriela and Monica Irimia, from Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, Romania, but based in Britain. After appearing as auditionees in Popstars: The Rivals, they achieved success in the charts with four top ten hits between 2002 and 2004...
  
  
• Razvan Fodor
  Razvan Fodor
  Răzvan Fodor is a Romanian singer and actor. He was born on June 22, 1975 in Bucharest, Romania. He was the lead singer for the Romanian rock group Krypton from 2000 to 2006, as well as being a well-known actor on Romanian television....
  
  
• Elena Gheorghe
  Elena Gheorghe
  Elena Gheorghe is a Romanian singer. Gheorghe represented Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 and qualified for the final. One of her most notable music singles is "Te Ador" and her 2010 music single "Disco Romancing"....
  
  
• Hara
  Hara (band)
  Hara is a Romanian pop-rock band from Cluj-Napoca. Its members during 2000-2002 were: Flavius Buzilă, Mihai Pop, Nicu Lichirie, Tudor Runcanu and Doru Dejeu...
  
  
• Hi-Q
  Hi-Q (band)
  Hi-Q is a Romanian pop group, founded in 1996 in Braşov. The group is made up of Mihai Sturzu and Florin Grozea. Hi-Q also hosts its own TV show on national television...
  
  
• Krypton
• Delia Matache
  Delia Matache
  Delia Matache , known by the stage name of Delia, is a Romanian eurobeat singer. She has started her stage music activity in 1999 with N&D music band and had release 4 albums, and after the split off in 2003 she had released another two solo albums.-Biography:She was born in Bucharest City,...
  
  
• Mirela
  Mirela
  Mirela Cabero is a Spanish singer. Mirela has participated in various musical contests since she was a child...
  
  
• Morandi
  Morandi (band)
  -Studio albums:-Singles:The single "Angels" sold 1.45 million copies in Russia and went 7x platinum as ring-back tone and gold as realtone. The single "Save me" went 2x platinum with 400,000 copies sold...
  
  
• Loredana
  Loredana Groza
  Loredana Groza is a Romanian pop singer. Singer, actress, TV hostess and mother, Loredana began her career in the city of Oneşti. She alternated music styles in order to show her wide talents...
  
  
• Nicola
  Nicoleta Alexandru
  Nicoleta Alexandru , whose stage name is Nicola, is a Romanian singer, best known for representing her country at the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest.-Biography:...
  
  
• O-zone
  O-Zone
  O-Zone was a Romania/Moldovan pop music trio that was active from 1998 to 2005 and consisted of Dan Bălan, Radu Sîrbu, and Arsenie Todiraş. The group gained global popularity with their song "Dragostea din tei" and their subsequent album DiscO-Zone....
  
  
• Miruna Oprea
• Alina Sorescu
• Spitalul de Urgenţă
  Spitalul de Urgenta
  Spitalul de Urgenţă, literally "Emergency Hospital", is a Romanian pop band, integrating elements of traditional Romanian music into a sometimes hard-edged rock sound, although also incorporating influences as diverse as Balkan folk music, European classical music, and cartoon soundtrack music.The...
  
  
• Cleopatra Stratan
  Cleopatra Stratan
  Cleopatra Stratan is the youngest person ever to score commercial success as a singer, with her 2006 album La vârsta de trei ani...
  
  
• Taxi
  Taxi (band)
  ----Taxi are a Romanian pop-rock band. Their sound is an eclectic mix of rock and contemporary pop, occasionally introducing other influences such as hot Nashville-style guitar licks.The band was founded March 13, 1999 in Bucharest...
  
  
• T.N.T.
• Voltaj
  Voltaj
  Voltaj is a Romanian pop-rock group. They won the Best Romanian Act award at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2005.- History :...
  
  
• Radu Sirbu
• Inna
  Inna
  Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu , best known as Inna, is a Romanian dance music singer. On November 12, 2008, she released her debut single "Hot", which was produced by Play & Win, a Romanian dance music trio and one of the leading music producers in Romania...
  
  
• Corina
  Corina (Romanian singer)
  Corina Monica Ciorbă , best known only as Corina, is a pop, dance, R&B singer from Satu Mare, Romania. She debuted in 2004 with the album Noi Doi, produced by Marius Moga. The main single from the album entitled Noi Doi reached fourth place in the Romanian Top 100...
  
  
• Alexandra Ungureanu and Crush

Rock and Metal

• Altar
  Altar (Romanian band)
  Altar is a Romanian metal band from Cluj Napoca, that formed in 1991. After a couple of local shows, the band had their first national concert at the '91 Samrock Festival, where they won the prize for the most popular band. After the performance at the Timişoara '92 Studfest, Altar was considered...
  
  
• Bucovina
• Byron
  Byron (band)
  byron is an alternative rock band formed in 2006 in Bucharest, Romania. Dan Byron, former guest of Agathodaimon and ex-member of Urma and Kumm, initially wanted to start a solo project, but it soon developed into an actual band...
  
  
• Cargo
  Cargo (band)
  Cargo is a well known Romanian Heavy Metal band from Timişoara, founded by guitarist Adrian Bărar in 1985.-Biography:Two of the current members are from Arad - Adrian Igrişan and Octavian Pilan , one is from Hunedoara - Cristian Pup and another one is from Deva - Alin Achim - but they are all...
  
  
• Celelalte Cuvinte
  Celelalte Cuvinte
  Celelalte Cuvinte is a Romanian rock band from Oradea, founded in December 1981, in Timişoara and still active to this day...
  
  
• DinUmbră
• Echo
• Grimus
  Grimus (band)
  Grimus is an alternative rock band from Cluj-Napoca, Romania.- History :While studying in Cluj-Napoca, the members started out as the 5-piece rock band Revers. In 2006, after having suffered multiple changes in the lineup, Grimus released a demo album. Their song Solitude is declared Song of the...
  
  
• Implant pentru refuz
• IRIS
  IRIS (Romanian band)
  Iris is a Romanian hard rock band established in 1977 by Ioan Dumitrescu , Ion Olteanu and Emil Lechinţeanu...
  
  
• Krypton
• Kumm
  Kumm (band)
  Kumm are a Romanian alternative rock band formed in Cluj in 1997. The band currently consist of Cătălin Mocan , Eugen "Oigăn" Nuţescu , Kovács András , Mihai Iordache , Uțu Pascu and John Ciurea...
  
  
• Laura Stoica
  Laura Stoica
  Laura Stoica was a Romanian singer, composer and actress.In 1986, she graduated from the "Popular Arts School" in Târgovişte with a degree in classic canto. Afterwards, she participated at all the major new-talent contests held in Romania...
  
  
• Les Elephants Bizarres
• Luna Amară
  Luna Amara
  Luna Amară is a Romanian alternative rock/grunge band. The name means "Bitter Moon" in Romanian, and is borrowed from the Roman Polanski movie of the same name, inspired by the eponymous novel written by Pascal Bruckner.-History:...
  
  
• M.S.
  Master of Science
  A Master of Science is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in the sciences including the social sciences.-Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay:...
  
  
• Magica
  Magica (band)
  Magica is a Romanian female-fronted power metal band.- History :Magica started in February 2002 as a project of Bogdan Costea, guitarist of a local gothic metal band, Interitus Dei. The reason for starting this band was Bogdan's desire to play the music that he likes: heavy metal & melodic...
  
  
• Negură Bunget
  Negura Bunget
  -Biography:Negură Bunget formed at the end of 1994, as a duo, with Hupogrammos Disciple on guitars, vocals, and keyboards, and Negru on drums. In 1997, Sol'Faur Spurcatu joined the group on guitar...
  
  
• Omul cu şobolani
  Omul cu şobolani
  Omul cu şobolani is a 4 piece alternative band from Romania, formed in Constanţa in 1997. They were nominated best rock band at the MTV Romanian awards in 2006.- Discography :* Razna #"Vara pe oliţă"#"Stânga"#"Cuibul oral"...
  
  
• Raza
  Raza
  Raza may refer to:*Raza , a 1942 Spanish film*S. H. Raza , an Indian artist*Raheel Raza , a Canadian Muslim author and feminist*Raza Longknife, a Marvel comic book character...
  
  
• Sport Sângeros III
• Timpuri Noi
  Timpuri Noi
  -History:Timpuri Noi was formed in 1980, and remained an underground act up to 1991. This was mainly due to what was perceived as "subversive lyrical content" in the Ceauşescu era. Incidentally, the name derives from a cliché of the period: its literal meaning is "New Times" , used to signify...
  
  
• Phoenix
  Transsylvania Phoenix
  Transsylvania Phoenix is a Romanian rock band formed in 1962 in Timişoara by guitarists Nicu Covaci and Kamocsa Béla. Guitarist Claudiu Rotaru, vocalist Florin "Moni" Bordeianu and drummer Ioan "Pilu" Ştefanovici completed the early lineup...
  
  
• Trooper
  Trooper (Romanian band)
  Trooper is a Romanian heavy metal band.It was formed on 25 October 1995, by brothers Alin and Aurelian Dinca, inspired by bands like Iron Maiden or Judas PriestThe band used to be called Megarock, then White Wolf...
  
  
• Truda
• Ţapinarii
• Urma
• Vama
• Viţa de vie
• Zdob şi Zdub
  Zdob si Zdub
  Zdob şi Zdub is a Moldovan band, based in Chişinău, whose work for the last several years has combined elements of hip-hop , hardcore punk and comical lyrics with traditional Romanian folk music. The name is onomatopoeic for the sound of a drum beat...