Dan Balan is the only Moldovan musician to be nominated for a Grammy as co-writer of a song from a studio album named what?
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Dan Balan Dan Balan (born 6 February 1979 in Chișinău) is a Moldovan musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is the first and only Moldovan musician to be nominated for a Grammy as co-writer of Rihanna and T.I.'s "Live Your Life". He is the founder of European band O-Zone, and wrote and produced their international hit single "Dragostea Din Tei", which topped the charts in over 30 countries and sold over 12 million copies worldwide. He is also the songwriter and performer of European hit-singles "Chica Bomb", "Justify Sex" and "Freedom".
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Live Your Life (T.I. song) "Live Your Life" is a song by American rapper T.I., from his sixth studio album, "Paper Trail" (2008), and features Barbadian singer Rihanna. It was released as the seventh single from the album on September 23, 2008. The song is a conscious hip hop track with elements of contemporary R&B. The song's lyrics speak of T.I.'s rise to fame and optimism of the future. It also gives dedication to the American troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Culeg Vise Culeg Vise (English: "I Pick Up Dreams") is the eleventh studio album by Romanian female recording artist and songwriter Paula Seling, the winner of Golden Stag in 2002. It was officially released on February 12, 2009. It contains sixteen tracks and a bonus track ("Zburator"). The only single released is "Culeg Vise". At first, Seling confirmed a music video for the song, but it wasn't even shot. The single was physically released on March 16, 2009, being broadcast just by Magic FM.
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Winter Carols Winter Carols is the sixth studio album by the group Blackmore's Night, released in the United Kingdom on October, 2006, and in the United States on November 7, 2006. It is a Christmas themed album. The cover artwork for this album, painted by Karsten Topelmann, is an adaptation of a street in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany, in line with the band's heavy Renaissance influence. The same street is portrayed in the cover of Blackmore's Night's second studio album, "Under a Violet Moon". In the cover of "Winter Carols" the street is painted as winter time, whereas "Under a Violet Moon"'s cover takes place on apparently a summer night. While the selections "Winter (Basse Dance)" is credited to Ritchie Blackmore as composer, it is an adaptation of the second section of Joaquin Rodrigo's "Fantasía para un gentilhombre," which Rodrigo composed for classical guitar virtuoso Andres Segovia in 1954.
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Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 Moldova participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece. The Moldovan entry was selected through the second of two national finals, organised by the Moldovan broadcaster TeleRadio-Moldova (TRM). The initial multi-phase national selection process resulted in a deadlock tie between three songs, which ultimately led to the organisation of a second national final. Arsenium and Natalia Gordienko featuring Connect-R represented Moldova with the song "Loca", which was a direct finalist and placed 20th in the final, scoring 22 points.
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Barry (album) Barry is the self-titled album released by singer and songwriter Barry Manilow in 1980. The album reached Platinum status. The tracks were recorded at Evergreen Recording Studios in Burbank, California. Manilow co-wrote with Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire the album track "Only in Chicago". "We Still Have Time" was taken from the film "Tribute".
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Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 Moldova participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany and selected their entry through a televised national final, "O melodie pentru Europa" (A song for Europe), organised by Moldovan broadcaster TeleRadio-Moldova (TRM). The band Zdob şi Zdub won the selection with the song "So lucky".
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Labudova pesma Labudova pesma (trans. "Swan Song") is the eleventh studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1992.
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Judas (Lady Gaga song) "Judas" is a song by American singer Lady Gaga, from her second studio album, "Born This Way" (2011). It was released four days ahead of schedule by Interscope Records on April 15, 2011. Written and produced by Lady Gaga and RedOne, "Judas" is a dance and electro house song about a woman in love with a man who betrayed her. It embodies the incidents that have haunted Gaga in the past, and its core meaning refers to the negative parts of her life that she cannot escape. Gaga has further explained that the song was also about honoring one's inner darkness in order to bring oneself into the light. The artwork for the single was designed by Gaga in Microsoft Word. In spite of a polarizing impact on several religious groups, the song was generally well received by critics, who likened the song to "Bad Romance" with some noting it should have been the album's lead single.
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No Love Allowed "No Love Allowed" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna for her seventh studio album, "Unapologetic" (2012). The singer co-wrote the track together with Sean "Elijah Blake" Fenton, Alexander Izquierdo, Steve Wyreman and Ernest Wilson, who produced it under his production name No I.D.. Kuk Harrell and Marcos Tovar recorded the song at Record One Studios and Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles and Metropolis Studios in London; Harrell also did the vocal production. "No Love Allowed" is a electro-ragga and reggae song with an instrumentation consisting of a bubbly, dubbed-out groove, Caribbean and dubstep beat and loping drumless rhythms.
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Corina (Romanian singer) Corina (born January 26, 1980) is a Romanian pop, dance, and R&B singer. She debuted in 2004 with her album "Noi Doi", produced by Marius Moga. The main single from the album entitled "Noi Doi" reached fourth place in the Romanian Top 100. The second album, named "Îmi place tot", was launched on January 1, 2005 and produced two great singles one that reached Top 10 and the other Top 5 in the Romanian Top 100. The third album "Face Off" represents a significant change in the artist's singing style having dancehall, reggae, R&B, drum'n bass, hip hop, house and electro influences, but still remaining a pop/dance album. This album produced two big singles "Quieres una aventura" and "Overdrive". The fourth album "Gimme Your Love" was launched in July 2008 and received good critics from the Bravo magazine. The album was produced and recorded in Germany in a Hamburg based studio, under the supervision of Toni Cottura.
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Get Back (ASAP) "Get Back (ASAP)" is a song recorded by Romanian singer Alexandra Stan, released on 28 March 2011 by Play On / Jeff Records as the third single from her debut studio album, "Saxobeats" (2011). The track was written and produced by Marcel Prodan and Andrei Nemirschi, and was recorded at their Maan Studio in Constanța. Musically, "Get Back (ASAP)" is a dance song with jazz accents, containing a saxophone in its instrumentation. Music critics were positive towards the recording, praising its catchiness, while also comparing it to its predecessor, "Mr. Saxobeat" (2011). Commercially, it was a modest commercial success, reaching the top 20 of the charts in multiple countries. For promotion, an accompanying music video was shot by Iulian Moga in Bucharest, Romania, serving as a continuation for the visual of "Mr. Saxobeat". Uploaded on YouTube on 20 June 2011, it portrays Stan in a saloon bar escaping from two police men that try to arrest her by using a bar-fighting as an opportunity to exit the bar. Another music video was filmed by Ciprian Strugariu for the Maanstudio remix version of the song.
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Mun (album) Mun is the fifth solo studio album by Finnish musician Nopsajalka. The album was released on 10 April 2015.
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Get You (Daniel Caesar song) "Get You" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Daniel Caesar, featuring Colombian-American singer-songwriter Kali Uchis. It was written by Caesar and Uchis, with production handled by Jordan Evans and Matthew Burnett. The song premiered on "Billboard" magazine and Beats 1. It was released via Golden Child Recordings on October 20, 2016, as the lead single from Caesar's debut studio album, "Freudian" (2017). He played an acoustic version of the song in a trailer of this documentary on Apple Music. A music video for the song was released on December 1, 2016.
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Balázs Havasi Balázs Havasi (born 18 September 1975) is a Hungarian pianist and composer. As a contemporary composer he has launched four completely different musical projects, including compositions for a symphony orchestra, rock drums and piano. Havasi wrote a song for singer Tracey Thorn and gave a speech at the TED Global conference about his efforts in musical innovation. He is known for his fondness of Asian culture and martial arts, which he practiced for years. Havasi’s works became known to millions within a short time.
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Latin Grammy Award for Song of the Year The Latin Grammy Award for Song of the Year is an honor presented annually at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence, creates a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists in the United States and internationally. The award is given to the songwriters of new songs containing at least 51% of lyrics in Spanish or Portuguese language. Instrumental songs or a new version of a previously recorded track are not eligible. Due to the increasing musical changes in the industry, from 2012 the category includes 10 nominees, according to a restructuration made by the academy for the four general categories: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Best New Artist and Song of the Year.
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Meliora (album) Meliora (Latin for "the pursuit of something better") is the third full-length album by Swedish heavy metal band Ghost. The album was produced by Klas Åhlund and released on August 21, 2015. The album was generally well received, placing on several music publications' lists of the best heavy metal albums of the year and winning Best Hard Rock/Metal Album at the 2015 Grammis Awards. Lead single "Cirice" won the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. In September 2016, the band released a special edition of the album, called "Meliora Redux".
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Music of Moldova Moldovan music is closely related to that of its neighbour and cultural kin, Romania. Moldovan folk is known for swift, complex rhythms (a characteristic shared with many Eastern European traditions), musical improvisation, syncopation and much melodic ornamentation. Pop, hip hop, rock and other modern genres have their own fans in Moldova as well. Modern pop stars include O-Zone, a Romanian and Moldovan band whose "Dragostea din tei" was a major 2004 European hit, guitarist and songwriter Vladimir Pogrebniuc, Natalia Barbu, who is well known in Germany, Romania and Ukraine, and Nelly Ciobanu. The band Flacai became well known in the 1970s across Moldova, turning their hometown of Cahul into an important center of music.
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Cirice "Cirice" (Old English: "Church") is a song by the Swedish heavy metal band Ghost. The track was released as the lead single from the group's third studio album "Meliora". The song is considered to be the band's breakthrough into the U.S.; it peaked at #4 on the Mainstream Rock Songs chart, and won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 2016.
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Wolves and Witches Wolves and Witches is the Romanian Power metal band Magica's fourth studio album, released on November 28, 2008, by AFM Records. There are still no official videos for the songs on this CD; however, there is a fan-made video for the album's first song "Don't Wanna Kill", which can be viewed at Magica's Myspace.com profile.
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Șoapte Şoapte (meaning "Whispers" in Romanian) is the fourth album by Romanian dance music group DJ Project. It won the "Best Dance Album" award at the MTV Romania Music Awards 2006.
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Anthem of Transnistria The Anthem of Transnistria is named "We sing the praises of Transnistria" (; Romanian: "Slăvită să fii Nistrene" ; Russian: Мы славим тебя, Приднестровье ; Ukrainian: Ми славимо тебе, Придністров’я ). The music was written by Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov, and the lyrics by Boris Parmenov, Nicholas Bozhko and Vitaly Pishenko. The anthem has lyrics in all three official languages of Transnistria: Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian. They are, however, not all literal translations of one another. The origin of the anthem was from the Russian patriotic song "Long live our Power" (Да здравствует наша держава), a 1943 composition that was one of the proposed songs to be the anthem of the former Soviet Union. Boris Alexandrov's composition was, however, rejected in favor of the one submitted by his father, Alexander Alexandrov.