Biography
O-Zone is the Moldavian pop group, speaking on a professional stage from 1999 to 2005. The team gained fame as a trio, and the wide popularity of the team brought the Single Dragostea Din Tei, who conquered the charts of foreign charts.The history of creation and composition
O-Zone was organized in 1999. Her founders were given Balan and Peter Zhelikhovsky, the former vocalists of the Moldavian rock band inferalis. Chisinau became the home team. The name of the artists were explained by conducting an analogy with the freshness and aroma of ozone in the air after the recently ending rain. According to the logic of the participants, their work should have brought a fresh breath of modernity on the stage and please the public.
In the spring of 2001, Zhelikhovsky decided to terminate cooperation with Balan, as he perceived music as a hobby and did not plan to do it professionally. Dan announced a casting on a vacant place in the group. The new team of the team formed Rada Syzbu and the arsion of the Todiry. They easily found a common language and aimed at the conquest of Music Olympus.
Music
The history of the creation of the team turned out to be infertility. In 1999, the duet released a debut album called Dar, Unde Eti. The plate included 11 songs. Moldova's youth penetrated with O-Zone compositions, and the team quickly gained success in the audience.In 2002, the discography of the group was replenished Number 1. Its exit brought the team participants to the team unprecedented popularity in his homeland. The young performers were talking abroad. The Despre Tine composition was leading in the Romanian music ranking and remained at the top position for 3 weeks, which was a great achievement for artists.
The real Furior produced the following album Dragostea Din Tei. The plate, the name of which is translated as "linden love", made O-Zone famous far beyond the native country. Fans of a trio who did not know the language on which hits are fulfilled, sang clearly captured "Nu Mă, Nu Mă iei". The disc instantly occupied the top lines of European charts. Musicians began to give numerous concerts, clips began to appear one after another.
In 2003, the light saw the 3rd disk of the Disco-Zon team. A year later, the record was presented to an international audience in an extended format. According to statistics, in 2005, this album was among the best-selling.
Decay
Having reached the peak of success, the musicians terminated the contract on cooperation and engaged in solo creativity. The disintegration of the O-Zone became a shock for fans. Artists plunged into self-realization and rarely crossed in the professional sphere.
Journalists and fans guess that it was the cause of the separation of popular performers. The assumptions of the absence in the unanimity group relative to the musical genre were put forward.
Career ambitions Dana Balan were also considered as prerequisites for the dissolution of the team. Some said that the singer wants to try himself in the United States as a producer, while others saw the problem in the fact that, according to rumors, the artist received a lion's share of the group's income. The unfair distribution of financial flows often becomes the subject of disputes and conflicts, it looked like the most realistic reason. True, none of the nominated assumptions was confirmed by artists.
In 2017, the team reunited to give two concerts - in Chisinau and Bucharest. Balan, Arsenia and Cheezpu performed favorite hits of fans.
After parting, the artists did not support friendly relations. Each of the participants went his way. The most successful was Dan Balan. He released a few hits who are in demand in his homeland in Russia and Europe.
Now the vocalist records songs in Russian, Romanian and English, participates in thematic concert speeches of pop musicians and cooperates with Russian artists. Balan often becomes a participant in television vocal projects and shows.
Rada Cheezbu engaged in solo creativity. He also became a family man and a caring father of three children. The artist organized its own RADU team, which performs compositions in different languages, including in Russian.
Arsening Todiryche was realized as an independent vocalist. For some time he performed with the singer Mianna. In addition to work, the performers associated romantic relationships. The man refused the role of back vocalist and partner and works solo under the arsenium pseudonym. He participated in Eurovision 2006.
Former participants O-Zone have personal accounts in the social network "Instagram", where you can see their photos.
Albums
- 1999 - Dar, Unde Eşti ...
- 2002 - Number 1
- 2003 - Disco-Zone
Clips
- 2002 - Numai Tu
- 2003 - Despr Tine
- 2003 - Dragostea Din Tei
- 2004 - De CE Plang Chitarele