Dan balan ma. Dan Balan: biography of a young star. Biography of the artist after the breakup of the group

Until the eighth grade, Dan studied at the Theoretical Lyceum "M. Eminesku", in 1993 he transferred to the Lyceum "Gheorghi Asache".

In 1994, the artist’s father, Mihai Balan, was appointed Ambassador of Moldova to Israel. So the family moved. Dan studied at Tabetha school for a year and a half, after which he returned to his native Chisinau and entered the Faculty of Law of the Moldavian State University

Since childhood, the future celebrity had a great interest in music. Dan first appeared in public at the age of four, on an entertainment television show. At the age of eleven, the boy was given an accordion. The future musician began to compose and play waltzes on it. And at the age of 18, Dan Balan created his first bands Pantheon and Inferialis, they played in the style of gothic doom metal. After the breakup of the groups, Dan recorded the solo song “De La Mine” (“From Me”).

Dan Balan and the O-Zone group

The album “Dar, Unde Eşti” (“But where are you”) was immediately released, which was a huge success.

In 2001, the O-Zone group was reformed. Dan Balan took in Radu Sirba and Arseniy Toderash. A year later, the trio was signed by a Romanian record company, and the album “Number 1” followed. The songs from the album “Numai Tu” (“Only You”) and “Despre Tine” (“About You”) became hits in Romania and Moldova.

O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei

Next, the group released the album “DiscO-Zone”. It included, in particular, the world hit “Dragostea Din Tei” (“First Love”). By the way, it was this composition that brought the team unprecedented fame. The song stayed on the European Hot 100 Singles chart for 12 weeks and sold 12 million copies worldwide. “DiscO-Zone” itself became the group's best-selling album. He climbed to the top of all kinds of charts in six countries. The record sold more than 3.5 million copies around the world, while only a million copies were bought in Japan.

By the way, even world celebrities did not remain indifferent after listening to the hit “Dragostea din Tei”. The melody was used by T.I and Rihanna in 2008 for the song “Live Your Life”.

Stellar career of Dan Balan

Dan Balan recorded the songs “Sugar Tunes Numa Numa” (in the rock arrangement of “Dragostea Din Tei”) and “17”.

In 2006, Dan Balan began working under the pseudonym Crazy Loop. Under this name, the hit "Crazy Loop (Mm Ma Ma)" was released with a video directed by Mark Klasfeld. In December 2007, the musician released the album “The Power of Shower”.

On December 1, 2009, Dan Balan presented in his native Chisinau new album"Crazy Loop Mix". The title of the album is explained simply: it combines the results of the artist’s work under own name and the pseudonym Crazy Loop. However, on the album itself the artist is listed as Dan Balan.

At the beginning of 2010, a new single was released. “Chica Bomb” immediately took first place in the world charts, it literally blew up all the dance floors and radio airwaves of the world. The video for the song was directed by the famous Hype Williams, who has worked with such celebrities as Missy Elliot, LL Cool J, Jay.Z and Kelis. And in the middle of summer 2010, the musician presented new song“Justify SEX” in Moscow, which topped the official Russian chart.

In October 2010, Dan Balan presented his new song. He performed “Petals of Tears” together with the Ukrainian artist Vera Brezhneva. The composition was first performed on the radio station “Love Radio”. “Petals of Tears” soared to the top of the official Russian chart and became the third of Dan’s three singles to reach the top.

In Russia, the work of Dan Balan was also noted. At the end of 2010, the composition became the winner as “Foreign single, male vocal”. It was repeated on air 511 thousand times. The hit also took second place in the final TOP 800 chart at the end of the year.

In the spring of 2011, Radio Energy began broadcasting the song “Freedom”. She immediately got into the hot thirty. A couple of months later, a video for this composition was presented to the whole world.

Dan Balan. Chicka boom

In September 2011 the next premiere. The song “Only Until the Morning” was played on Love Radio. The composition immediately entered the charts of leading radio stations. A month later, a presentation of the video for the hit took place, and it could be seen on official page artist in social network"Facebook".

Now the artist is collaborating with Gala Records and recording a new album. Eat or Die!

What Dan Balan can’t do without: “Well, you know everything Maslow's pyramid. About human needs. We all, first of all, need the physical. This is food and sleep. Always. And no matter how much we want to answer romantically, it’s still the way it is. We are always waiting until we get rich and buy ourselves everything we dream of.” Therefore, the artist lives by the motto “Eat or Die!”

Dan Balan kissed a girl for the first time at the age of 13, and two years later he had his first sex.

During water procedures or relaxing on the couch, the singer thinks either about his girls or about songs.

If Dan had not been a musician, he would have become an athlete. Dan is a fan of Metallica.

The singer lives in the center of New York, but is in his apartment for at most five months a year. He admits that every morning he sees the Empire State Building from his window - one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. Dan doesn't have his own car.

Personal life of Dan Balan

Vera Brezhneva and Dan Balan - Petals of Tears

There were rumors that while working on the song “Petals of Tears,” Dan had an affair with Vera Brezhneva. “I laughed when I read in the press that while working with Vera, we almost got married. It's a bullshit! Vera, of course, is incredibly beautiful, and also a pleasant person, but she is married, for me this is sacred. And by the way, we only saw her a few times; we mostly sent recordings of our voices to each other over the Internet,” says the artist.

The name is now increasingly appearing on the first lines of the charts young performer named Dan Balan. The artist’s biography is of interest to both fans and music critics, because originality of performance and bright individuality always attract attention. About where he was born and what path he took to musical Olympus young performer, read this article.

Dan Balan: biography

Nationality popular singer and the composer often becomes the object of controversy among fans. Some consider his name to be a simple stage name and classify the artist as a Russian. But in fact, Dan Mihai Bălan has Moldovan roots. Born in 1979 in Chisinau, Moldova. Dan's parents are public people: his father is diplomat Mihai Balan, his mother is TV presenter Lyudmila Balan. WITH youth the boy showed interest in music. At the age of 11 he was given his first musical instrument- an accordion, and he happily played his first compositions on it. Finished music school, and at the age of 18 he already created his first group, for which he wrote music. This was 4 years before the world knew who Dan Balan was.

Biography of the O-Zone group

Real fame came to the artist after creating the O-Zone trio. The group was born in 1999, Dan wrote songs and was the group's producer. In 2001, the trio was re-formed, and in 2002 Balan signed a contract with a Romanian recording company. Songs from the first album, which was called “Number 1,” became hits in Romania and Moldova. The second album pleased listeners with the hit “Dragostea Din Tei”, which brought the guys real glory. They were loved all over the world - Europe, Japan, America danced to the fiery composition (it was also authored by Dan Balan).

Biography of the artist after the breakup of the group

2005 was the year the group collapsed. All participants began to build solo career. Dan Balan gathered his team, called it Balan and moved to Los Angeles. But despite the fact that he was already recognizable thanks to the sensational success of O-Zone, it was not easy for him to implement a solo project; it took him several years. At the same time, the artist worked in two directions: Balan sang in the rock style, Crazy Loop (second stage name) - in the electric dance style. But one person managed all this - Dan Balan. The biography of the young performer indicates that he is a purposeful, talented, versatile and selfless artist. Otherwise he would not have become what he is now.

First solo successes

The composition “Chica Bomb”, released at the beginning of 2010, became a real hit on dance floors. In the summer of the same year, a second song called “Justify SEX” was presented in Moscow, and it immediately hit the top lines of the Russian charts. The fall of 2010 presented listeners with the composition “Petals of Tears” - a duet work with Vera Brezhneva, and again Dan Balan became the leader of the charts.

The biography (photo of the first duet is presented in the article) already includes several joint works with famous performers world stage. And this is already a good achievement. And the artist is not going to stop there. His ascent to the musical Olympus has just begun!

Dan Balan did long haul from an unknown Moldovan performer to a global star collaborating with Jesse Dylan and others popular performers. His talent could have gone unnoticed, since the parents of the future musician were preparing for him the fate of a lawyer, but Dan was more persistent and went his own way.

Childhood and youth

The future musician was born into the family of a diplomat on February 6, 1979, in Chisinau. Zodiac sign: Aquarius. His parents were busy people: his father Mihai worked political activity, and mother Lyudmila built a career on television, where she achieved considerable success. That's why little Dan They were given to be raised by their grandmother Anastasia, who lived in the small village of Trebuzheny.

When the boy was 3 years old, his family took him back to the city, where the child often went to work with his mother. Already as a child, he became interested in music, and at the age of four he appeared on a television show, where he performed in front of an audience for the first time. When Dan turned 11, his family gave him his first musical instrument - an accordion. The boy was also sent to a music school so that his talents and skills would develop and improve.

The father took a responsible approach to his son’s education and chose for him one of the best lyceums in the country - named after M. Eminescu, and then - the lyceum named after Gheorghe Asachi. In 1994, Mihai received a promotion, becoming the Ambassador of the Republic of Moldova to Israel, and together with his family he moved to a new duty station. Far from home, Dan spent a year and a half studying languages, which would greatly benefit him in the future.

In 1996, Balan returned to his homeland and, at the insistence of his father, entered the Faculty of Law. Nevertheless, he already began to dream of musical career and persuaded his parents to give him a synthesizer if he successfully passed the entrance exams.

The new tool turned out to be a powerful motivator, and future artist began to comprehend legal disciplines. But his studies paled in comparison to his hobbies. Dan founded music group and gave her almost everything free time, which simply did not remain for the institute. Having finally become convinced of the seriousness of his choice, the guy dropped out of school and devoted himself to music.

Music

Dan created his first musical group while still at school. The group was called “Emperor”, the guys played songs in the underground style. However, this project was more of an experiment and the first test of my strength in music.

A more serious step for Balan was the group Inferialis, which played heavy music in the gothic-doom style, which was popular among young people at that time. The musicians held their first concert in the ruins of an abandoned factory, which gave their performance the necessary atmosphere.

Dan invited all his friends and relatives, although he was worried that they would not understand his work. He was partly right, as his mother and grandmother were horrified, but his father supported his son and gave him a new synthesizer.

But heavy music soon tired of Dan, who saw himself as a musician playing different styles. He began to write harmonious works in the pop genre, for which his friends accused him of pandering to the public and going commercial. At this stage, Balan and the Inferialis group parted ways. The musician recorded his first solo song, “Delamine,” in 1998 and began to think about a new project.

By 1999, Dan had finally formed the image and repertoire of the future group, called O-Zone. According to Balan, this is both ozone, which smells in the air after rain, and “Zone 0,” which in the Conex mobile network denotes the territory of Moldova.

The original line-up included Dan, as a vocalist and musician, and his colleague in the Inferialis project, Petr Zhelikhovsky, who rapped. Their first album “Dar, undeeşti” was released the same year, instantly making the performers popular in their homeland. However, Peter was not ready for such fame, since for him music was always just a hobby, and he left the band.

Dan approached the selection of new participants thoroughly: he organized a full-fledged casting, which attracted young guys from all over the country. One day his vocal teacher advised Balan to listen to her student Arseniy Todirash. The musician was not only pleasantly surprised by the soloist’s voice, but also quickly found mutual language, which had a positive impact on his decision. The third member of the team was found unexpectedly. Radu Sirbu was late for the casting, but Dan still decided to audition him. So from a duet the team turned into a trio and began to conquer world stage.

In 2001, O-Zone released their second album, Number 1, under the Catmusic label. The first track of the album was the song “Numaitu”, which fully reflected all the popular trends in Romanian pop music, but did not become a hit. Then Dan decided to experiment in order to create a composition capable of conquering the spoiled modern fashion the public. The team recorded the song “Despre Tine”, which brought the group popularity and fame in Romania. She stayed in first place on the national charts for seventeen weeks, providing Dan and his group with many awards.

The song “Dragostea Din Tei”, aired in 2003, brought the group worldwide fame. The composition with a simple text, sung in Romanian, instantly won all the European and Asian charts, which became a unique phenomenon for a composition not written in English language. She presented Dan with many prestigious awards, ensuring his recognition among famous music producers. The album that followed, “DiscO-Zone,” went platinum in many countries and sold over 3.5 million copies.

In 2005, Balan decided to take up solo career and officially closed the O-Zone group.

In 2006, the musician went to the USA, where he recorded a solo rock album, which was not released for unknown reasons. Nevertheless, he used some of this material in his new project Crazy Loop, which became Balan’s stage name. Distinctive feature this image songs were performed in falsetto, as well as unusually bright and memorable dance tracks. The album “The Power of Shower” was positively received in Europe, and the artist himself was awarded the “MTV Europe Music Awards” in the “Best Romanian Act” category.

Balan's global popularity opened the door for him to collaborate with many music stars. In particular, he wrote the song “Live your life” for Rihanna, which earned him a Grammy nomination in 2009.

In the same year, the musician re-released his previous album entitled “Crazy Loop mix”, getting rid of the pseudonym in favor of his real name. The next two singles were incredible success on the territory of Russia, which prompted Dan to write and perform his first song in Russian, which he sang in a duet with the popular Ukrainian singer.

His calculations turned out to be correct, and the composition increased the prestige and recognition of the musician in the CIS countries. Subsequently, it was here that Balan achieved considerable success, releasing several more songs in Russian.

In February 2010, Dan Balan went on new round popularity - his single “Chica Bomb” took first place in Russian and world charts.

The artist lived in America for many years, with him own apartment in the center of New York, Manhattan. But in 2014, Dan Balan took a break from his career and moved from New York to London. Later in England he recorded an album with the Bolshoi symphony orchestra British Musicians' Union. The first single of this record was the Russian-language song “Home”.

Personal life

With such a fruitful and busy musical career Dan has practically no time left for relationships. Therefore, some began to suspect the singer of gay. But this is nothing more than speculation and gossip of envious people, since there is no confirmation of these rumors.

Moreover, Balan often gets caught by the paparazzi in the company of bright beauties. So, in 2013, he was seen in the arms of world champion pole dancer Vardanush Martirosyan. Together they rested on Cote d'Azur France.

But in general, the musician does not like to advertise his personal life. Once in an interview, the singer spoke about his first youthful love, which happened to him at the age of 16. His classmate became his chosen one, but their romance turned into a long-distance relationship, as Balan’s family moved to Israel. The guys often corresponded and called each other, meeting once or twice a year, when Dan came to Chisinau on vacation. However, upon returning home, the guy realized that this relationship had outlived its usefulness.

The musician also admitted that in his life there were three girls with whom the musician built serious relationship. Presumably, among them was his sister Sandra's friend Cristina Russu. Perhaps, the name of this girl was mentioned in articles about Balan more often than others. Allegedly, their relationship lasted 5 years, but Christina never became Dan’s official wife.

In 2017, when asked by a journalist about his personal life, the man said that he had now become more stable in his relationship and was more serious about choosing a life partner. But for now Dan Balan understands that he is not 100% ready to start a family. According to him, such things should only happen once in a lifetime, so he must feel it.

Back in 2009, the musician shared with the newspapers his dream - to have a beautiful wife, a bunch of children and a house with a garden, where everything is covered in love. But everything has its time. Apparently, this time has not yet come. So fans of the stately, burning brunette (his height is 190 cm, and his weight is 76 kg) do not lose hope.

In the summer of 2017, news appeared on the Internet that Dan Balan opened a network in Chisinau fast food. The media reported that popular pop singer registered the Bunica’s brand, and soon a cafe with the same name opened in the city. It is worth noting that Dan Balan’s name is not listed among the founders or administrators of the enterprise. Its representatives also remained silent on this matter. But the singer’s mother still decided to leave a comment on the page in

At the age of 14-15 he played in the bands Pantheon and Inferialis in the style of gothic doom metal. After the breakup of Inferialis in 1998, he recorded the solo song De La Mine (De La Mine, Russian. From me), in 1999, together with ex ... Read all

Dan Balan was born on February 6, 1979 in the capital of Moldova, Chisinau, in the family of Ambassador Mihai Balan and TV presenter Lyudmila Balan. IN early age mastered the accordion and graduated from music school.

At the age of 14-15 he played in the bands Pantheon and Inferialis in the style of gothic doom metal. After the collapse of Inferialis in 1998, he recorded the solo song De La Mine (De La Mine, Russian. From me), in 1999, together with former partner Petru Zhelikhovsky, he created the group O-Zone. The album Dar, Unde Eşti... (Dar, Unde Eşti..., Russian. But where are you...) was released, which was a huge success.

In 2001, Dan Balan reorganized O-Zone, taking on Arseniy Toderash and Radu Sirba. In 2002, the group signed a contract with a Romanian record company and released the album Number 1 (Russian Number 1). The songs Numai Tu (Numai Tu, Russian. Only you) and Despre Tine (Despre Tine, Russian. About you) became hits in Moldova and Romania. This was followed by the album DiscO-Zone (Russian DiscО-zones) with the world hit Dragostea Din Tei (Dragostya Din Tei, Russian First Love or Russian Love in Linden Trees). It was this song and album that brought the group unprecedented fame. On the European Hot 100 Singles chart, the song stayed at number one for 12 weeks and sold 12 million copies worldwide.

At the beginning of 2005, the O-Zone group ceased to exist, the members took up solo projects. Dan created a pop-rock group called Balan and performed the songs Sugar Tunes Numa Numa (rock arrangement of Dragostea Din Tei) and 17. At the same time, under the pseudonym Crazy Loop was recorded album The Power of Shower (Russian: Energy soul), which was released on December 1, 2007.

On December 1, 2009, a presentation of a new album called Crazy Loop Mix took place in Chisinau. The name of the album is explained by the fact that it combines the results of the singer’s work under the pseudonym Crazy Loop and under his own name (on the album itself the artist is listed as Dan Balan).

In February 2010, the single Chica Bomb was released, which took first place in the charts. On July 31, 2010, Dan presented in Moscow a new song, Justify SEX, which topped the official Russian chart. On October 29, 2010, the Love Radio radio station premiered Dan’s joint song with Vera Brezhneva, Petals of Tears; the song also topped the official Russian chart, becoming the 3rd of Dan’s three singles, which peaked at number 1. Also, the song “Chica Bomb” at the end of 2010 became the winner in the nomination “Foreign single, male vocal” (511 thousand repetitions on air) and took 2nd place in the final TOP 800 chart for 2010.