Nicolae Gu??
Background information
Birth name	Nicolae Linguraru
Also known as	Regele Manelelor
Born	( 1967-12-03 ) December 3, 1967 (age 56) Aninoasa , Hunedoara, Romania
Genres	Manele
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instrument(s)	Accordion , Voice
Years active	1992?present

Nicolae Gu?? (born 3 December 1967) is a Romanian Roma manele singer.

Musical career [ edit ]

Gu?? started as a singer and accordionist in the late 1980s , playing l?ut?reasc? music. He released his debut album in 1992. Two years later, he released his first mainstream hit ? "De cand te iubesc pe tine" ( English : "Since I've Been Loving You"), featured on his second long-play record. His first album for a foreign audience was released in France, in 1996; while Romanian musical critics hardly had any reaction towards his music, the journalists abroad would show their appreciation and dub his music a very modern fashion of Gypsy jazz (including electric guitars and synthesizers ). ^{[1] [2]}

Starting around 1998 Gu?? developed a growing interest in manele music, a club-friendly subgenre of Balkans folk music influenced by Turkish and Arab pop , similar to what is known in former Yugoslavia as turbo-folk and narodna and in Bulgaria as chalga . Gu?? had an important role in the advancement of manele (which were a fairly new musical trend at that time) and brought in influences from Western pop and hip hop music . Some of his songs are: "A? renun?a", "Am gre?it ?i eu", "Dac? vrei", and "Doar tu". In 2007, Gu?? released a cover version of Hari Mata Hari 's " Lejla ", the third-placed entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 , renaming it "Cine e?ti?" (Who Are You?).

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