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Dan Mihai Balan (born 6 February 1979 in Chisinau, Moldavian SSR) is a Moldovan-Romanian singer, songwriter, and producer. He was born to Mihai Balan and Ludmila Balan, a TV presenter. Dan Balan has performed eurodance and commercially pop music. Balan is best known for his part in the eurodance music trio O-Zone, which led to fame across Europe with the hit single "Dragostea din tei".
The group was started by Dan Balan in 1998 with Petru Jelihovschi. They released their first album, Dar unde esti? (meaning "But, Where are you?") in 1999.However, for Petru music was just the main hobby so the group split up.
Dan Mihai Balan (born 6 February 1979 in Chisinau, Moldavian SSR) is a Moldovan-Romanian singer, songwriter, and producer. He was born to Mihai Balan and Ludmila Balan, a TV presenter. Dan Balan has performed eurodance and commercially pop music. Balan is best known for his part in the eurodance music trio O-Zone, which led to fame across Europe with the hit single "Dragostea din tei".
The group was started by Dan Balan in 1998 with Petru Jelihovschi. They released their first album, Dar unde esti? (meaning "But, Where are you?") in 1999.However, for Petru music was just the main hobby so the group split up. Balan was determined not to end the project though, so he opened auditions where he met Arsenie Todiras ( or Arsenium ). He was skeptical of Arsenie talents of course, but he'd sung "Love me tender" a classic hit. A couple of weeks later Radu Sirbu took part at the auditions and Balan found out there are three guys ready for success. They've formed the official O-Zone band.In 2001they moved in Romania were in 2002 they signed with Cat Music a major Romanian label.Their single"Despre tine"reached first place on the "Romanian Top 100 single Chart".
Mainly singing eurodance music using Romanian language, and especially famous due to the hit-single "Dragostea din tei" (translates to Love among the Linden Trees), a summer hit off the album DiscO-Zone. Dragostea Din Tei reached #1 position in many single charts in Europe around 2003 and 2004, and was placed third in the UK's Single Chart. Another single called "Despre Tine" ("about you") from the same album had similar success across Europe.
Converse to its multi-platinum status in Europe, O-Zone never the charts in the United States. Because of the Numa Numa Dance, "Dragostea Din Tei" had a burst of popularity in the United States. While the song received moderate to major airplay, and was sampled in Rihanna and TI's hit "Live Your Life", most Americans never knew who the group was or the original song's name. In January 2005, the trio split to pursue solo careers.
In 2004, Balan decided to venture closer to his rock roots. He chose the best musicians in his region and moved with them to Los Angeles in 2005. Although Dan wrote the compositions prior to the formation of his band, it took two years to get a signature sound and their own captivating style. 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, Balan introduced an alter ego-character, Crazy Loop, with an 'Eurodance flavoured song "Crazy Loop (Mm-ma-ma)"'. The video was directed by Marc Klasfeld, was released throughout Europe in the fall of 2007 and was voted the song of the year by fans, not including Romania. In December 2007, Dan also released the 'Crazy Loop' album entitled The Power of Shower. The song "Crazy Loop (Mm-ma-ma)" reached number one on the Romanian charts more than a month. In 2008 he released the video for the second song "Joanna (Shut Up!)".
In 2010, he released "Chica Bomb", his first single under the name Dan Balan, featuring American Katie DiCicco. It became an instant hit in many European countries and hit #37 in Germany and #44 in UK Singles Chart and number 1 in Russia and Greece (in Greece, this song was released with the Greek singer Eleni Foureira, performing the song during the 2010 MAD VMAs/MAD Video Music Awards).
Justify Sex is a eurodance/electro house song presented on July 31, in Moscow, at the "Europe Plus Live 2010" festival, . The official video for Justify Sex was released on 10-13-2010 on [Link removed - login to see]. Once again, NY Based Katie DiCicco is the Vocalist.
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