Balan (Dan)   (Moldova)

AKA : Crazy Loop
EuroPop member
Added : 23/05/2012
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Latest Dan Balan news

30/04/2023 : Dan Balan announced that he revived his project Crazy Loop and that the next single would be entitled Love Maria

25/01/2021 : Discover the stellar videoclip for Dan Balan and Indi's current single Дышат о любви. Dan Balan directed, produced and choreographed the video himself

24/12/2020 : Dan Balan's new single is a duet with INDI entitled Dyshat o lyubvi. They performed it during show Tantsi z zirkamy on Ukranian channel 1+1

07/10/2020 : Dan Balan revives his project Crazy Loop and a new single will be published soon

14/01/2020 : Dan Balan will be once again one of the coaches of The Voice of Ukraine (Голос країни). Show will air from January 19th on 1+1 channel. Last year, the show's winner was a member of his team.

22/01/2019 : Dan Balan will be one of the coaches of Golos Kraïni, Ukrainian version of real-TV show the Voice.

13/09/2018 : Dan Balan teamed with Marley Waters to release a reboot of O-Zone's hit Dragostea Din Tei under title Numa Numa 2. Videoclip was directed by Sergey Solodky and featured dancers from the Triplet Ghetto Kids and the Galaxy African Kids Dance Crew.

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Dan Balan albums

	Freedom Part 1	13th Dec 2012	BUY X
	Freedom part 2	20th Apr 2021	BUY X

Dan Balan singles

	Chica Bomb (feat. Katie DiCicco)	2010	BUY X
	Justify Sex (feat. Katie DiCicco)	2010	BUY X
	Lepestkami slyoz (feat. Vera Brezhneva)	2010	BUY X
	Freedom	2011	BUY X
	Lish Do Utra	2011	BUY X
	Ne Lyubya	2012	BUY X
	Lyubi	27th Apr 2012	BUY X
	Lendo Calendo	19th May 2013	BUY X
	Funny Love	14th Oct 2015	BUY X
	Platch	14th Dec 2015	BUY X
	Hold On Love	19th May 2017	BUY X
	Nashe Leto (with Vera Brezhneva)	11th Aug 2017	BUY X
	Allegro Ventigo (feat. Matteo) Video only	22nd Mar 2018	BUY X
	Numa Numa 2 (feat. Marley Waters)	12th Sep 2018	BUY X
	Balzam (feat. Lusia Chebotina)	30th Apr 2019	BUY X
	Domoy (with Tina Karol)	6th Dec 2019	BUY X
	Pomnish (with Tina Karol)	1st May 2020	BUY X
	#Vseprobachaty (feat. Oksana Mukha)	15th May 2020	BUY X
	Dyshat O Lyubvi (with Indi)	18th Dec 2020	BUY X
	Lyubov' Kak V Pesnyakh	19th Nov 2021	BUY X
	Printre Culori	26th Aug 2022	BUY X
	Oriunde Ai Fi	1st Mar 2024	BUY X
	Ultima Noapte (with Irina Rimes)	22nd Mar 2024	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	O-Zone (2) - Dragostea Din Tei	19th Apr 2004	BUY X
	Romanovskaya - Malo Maliny	25th Apr 2016	BUY X
	NEY - Bomb	11th Jul 2020	BUY X

Compositions

O-Zone (2) - Dragostea Din Tei

19th Apr 2004

BUY X

Aliases - Records released under other names

	Crazy Loop - Crazy Loop (Mm-ma-ma)	2006	BUY X
	Crazy Loop - Power of Shower (album)	Dec 2007	BUY X
	Crazy Loop - Joanna (Shut Up)	2008	BUY X
	Crazy Loop - Electric Shock!	18th Sep 2020	BUY X
	Crazy Loop - Full Immunity	18th Sep 2022	BUY X
	Crazy Loop - Love Maria	5th May 2023	BUY X

Dan Balan biography

Composer, 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.

2013 : his new single was a collaboration with Tany Vander & Brasco entitled Lendo Calendo.

2015 : Dan Balan was back with a new single entitled Funny Love. 2 months later, he released the song Плачь in Russia.

2016 : he was featured by Romanovskaya on her single Malo Maliny.

2017 : his new single Hold On To Love was out. Then in August came single Nashe Leto, a duet with Russian singer Vera Brezhneva.

2018 : in March, he featred singer Matteo on his new singe Allegro Ventigo. Then in September he teamed with Marley Waters to release a reboot of O-Zone's hit Dragostea Din Tei under title Numa Numa 2

2019 : he was one of the coaches of Golos Kraïni, Ukrainian version of real-TV show the Voice.

Dan Balan biography was last updated Thu, January 9th 2020

Charts (singles)

Chica Bomb	#100	#64	#36	#37	#1	#1	#44
Justify Sex						#1
Lepestkami slyoz						#1
Freedom						#2
Lish Do Utra						#2

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