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Dan Balan biographyComposer, songwriter, producer and singer Dan Bălan was born on February 6th, 1979. He began to sing and compose rock music with band Pantheon. Then he founded rock band Inferial with Radu Buftea, Lupascu, Valentin "Vamp", Banaru and Petru Jelihovschi. They evolved to to pop-rock, but soon he realized that he needed to leave this type of music was not popular anymore. In September 1999, with Petru Jelihovschi, Dan formed the first boys band in Moldova : O-Zone. which became the #1 band in Moldova before scoring a huge hit with Dragostea Din Tei and Despre Tine. After O-zone split in 2005, he decided to start making rock music again. With the best musicians in his region, he moved to Los Angeles. Although Dan wrote the compositions prior to the formation of his band, it took two years to get a signature sound. He asked producer Jack Joseph Puig (John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, No Doubt, The Black Crows, Rolling Stones) to produce the record. An album was recorded in April/June 2006 at Ocean Way Studios in Los Angeles. In 2006, he went back to dance again. Introducing an alter ego-character, Crazy Loop, he released the single Crazy Loop (Mm-ma-ma). It went #1 in the Romanian charts. The video, directed by Marc Klasfeld and filmed in Los Angeles, was released throughout Europe in the fall of 2007 and was voted the song of the year by fans. In December 2007, the first and only Crazy Loop album entitled The Power of Shower was released. 2008 : Dan released the video for the second song Crazy Loop Joanna (Shut Up!). 2010, he released Chica Bomb, his first single under his complete name Dan Balan, featuring American Katie DiCicco. It became an instant hit in many European countries : #37 in Germany, #44 in the UK and #1 in Russia and Greece. For Greek market, the song was re-recorded with the Greek singer Eleni Foureira, and they performed the song during the 2010 MAD Video Music Awards. Follow-up single was entitled Justify Sex, once again featuring Katie DiCicco. It was presented on July 31st, in Moscow, at the Europe Plus Live 2010 festival. The official video first aired on 13th October, 2010. 2011, Crazy Loop (Mm-ma-ma) and Chica Bomb were featured on Step Evolution's "ReRave" game for the iOS, Android and Arcade platforms. He released the single Freedom. Then came the Russian single Lish Do Utra (Until the morning only) 2012 : Dan currently lives in New York. He released the single Ne Lyubya in April. The biography was last updated Wed, May 23rd 2012 Did you like this article ? Tell your friends
Latest Dan Balan news09/07/2013 : Discover the videoclip of Dan Balan's current single Lendo Calendo. 05/07/2013 : Discover a teaser of Dan Balan's new single Lendo Calendo videoclip, directed by Alan Badoev. Video will premiere on July 9th. 16/06/2013 : Dan Balan 's new single is a collaboration with Tany Vander and Brasco entitled Lendo Calendo. 02/08/2012 : Dan Balan is nominated for 2nd Annual RU Tv Russian Music Awards in 2 categories : Best Song and Best Male Artist. Results in Moscow on September 29th 2012. More infos Charts (singles)
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