Dan Balan's biography

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Dan Balan is an incredibly talented author and performer of many hits, winner of the Grammy Award. His biography is a difficult path from a novice musician to a world-famous star collaborating with famous foreign singers. Despite the incredible popularity, little is known about the artist's personal life.

Childhood and youth

The future world star was born in 1979 in Chisinau. The boy was born into an artistic family, so it is not surprising that he decided to devote his whole life to music.

His father was a diplomat, and the boy's mother worked on one of the local channels, so Dan was familiar with the world of show business since childhood, often visiting her at work. The family also has a younger sister named Sanda. The girl decided to follow in her mother's footsteps and also works as a presenter on television.

The boy began to get involved in music, and at the age of 4 he first appeared on a TV show. At the age of 11, his parents enrolled their son in a music school and presented him with an accordion. Dan managed to quickly master this musical instrument, in parallel with this he attended piano lessons and played the guitar.

Playing three musical instruments, Balan began to compose musical compositions. Initially, these were classical melodies and waltzes. Later he became interested in rock music, and after a few years the young man even organized his own musical group.

In early 1994, on duty of his father, the whole family left for Israel. After studying at a prestigious school that worked at the embassy, Dan Balan learned several foreign languages at once. During a year and a half in Israel, he made significant progress in his daily music lessons.

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The beginning of a creative career

After returning to Moldova, the guy graduated from the lyceum in Chisinau, after which, at the insistence of his parents, he passed the exams to the university at the Faculty of Law. For this, his father gave him a synthesizer, since he believed that his son's hobby for music would not affect his future career in any way.

But the young man had other plans for the future, and he spent his free time recording music with his group "Inferialis". Initially, the musicians rehearsed at abandoned construction sites and factories in order to give a certain ambience to the performances. They took part in various music festivals, performed in nightclubs, and thanks to the mother of Dan Balan they even appeared on television.

However, after a few years, the singer realized that his participation in Inferialis did not allow him to become a famous singer in order to gather stadiums for his concerts. As a result, a new group was created - "O-Zone". In its composition, the singer performed many hits that brought him great fame. To this day, the following compositions are widely popular:

• Despre Tine;
• Dragostea Din Tei;
• Oriunde Ai Fi.

The musician's quick success was also facilitated by the connections of his mother Lyudmila Balan on radio and television. And very soon, seven songs of the musical group at once were on the first lines of the chart of the most popular radio stations in Moldova.

In gratitude to his mother, the singer began producing her new children's show, for which several hits were recorded. The news about the collapse of the band sounded like a bolt from the blue for many fans of the group "O-Zone". The group suddenly ceased to exist at the very peak of its fame. The last time the musicians performed was in the fall of 2005.

The musician decided to pursue a solo career. He went to New York, where he bought himself a luxurious apartment, in which he still lives today, although he declares that he visits there only a few times a year, and the rest of the time he tours the world.

Wide popularity allowed the singer to collaborate with many world stars. In particular, for the singer Rihanna, he wrote the song "Live your life", which literally immediately became very popular and brought Balan a Grammy award.

In 2009, his old album "Crazy Loop mix" was reissued, after which he finally got rid of his stage name Crazy Loop in favor of his own name and surname. Two recorded singles became incredibly popular in Russia.

This success prompted the musician to record and perform a song in Russian, which Dan sang in a duet with the famous singer Vera Brezhneva. After the success of this hit, Balan recorded another song in Russian - "Only until the morning." In 2012, the album “Freedom, Pt. 1 ", which includes such famous songs:

• "Cry Cry";
• Chica Bomb;
• "Love".

In 2013, the singer performed another hit in Spanish in a duet with aspiring singer Tany Vander and rapper Brasco. The video for this song was shot by the famous Ukrainian video maker Alan Badoev.

In 2014, Balan took a break in his career and went to London. Later, a new album was recorded together with the English Symphony Orchestra. The first popular single was a song called "Home".

Today Dan Balan is not only a famous performer, but also a successful businessman. The artist opened a chain of snack bars "Bunica's" in Chisinau.

In the spring of 2018, the musician presented his new song "Allegro Ventigo" - the musical composition became the summer hit of the year. In 2019, the artist amazed the audience with a new video for the song "Balsam", in the filming of which the Russian singer Lyusya Chebotina took part.

Another breakthrough for the musician was his membership in the jury of the Ukrainian vocal project "Voice". In addition to this work, the singer also took an active part in the concerts of this show.

Dan Balan proved that he can be not only a singer, but also a good mentor for aspiring performers. And his best ward Oksana Mukha won the competition.

After participating in the role of a mentor on the show, Dan stayed in Kiev to collaborate with Ukrainian musicians. In 2020, he again took part in the filming of the anniversary program of the show "The Voice".

Personal life

The singer prefers to hide the details of his personal life. Therefore, the journalists were unable to find out whether he has a wife and children. He was credited with novels with the dancer Varda Martirosyan, the Ukrainian performer Vera Brezhneva and other beautiful girls with whom he periodically appears in public.

Information leaked to the media that the artist was still married to a certain girl Ella, who gave birth to his son Alan. It was rumored that the young people broke up because of the girl's strong jealousy.

Recently, there have been rumors that Dan Balan is dating Ukrainian singer Tina Karol. Young people began to regularly appear together at social events, flirting with each other. But not all fans believe in the sincerity of their relationship, some are sure that young people meet for PR.

In addition to music, the artist regularly goes in for sports. As you can see in numerous photos, Dan Balan is in good shape. Now he has switched to home workouts, as due to constant employment he does not have time for classes in the gym.

Summarize

1. Dan Balan is a very talented person, he has successfully mastered five musical instruments. In addition, he is fluent in several foreign languages: native Moldovan, Russian, English, French, Spanish.
2. At the beginning of his career, the singer was a member of the Inferialis group, but he gained great popularity thanks to the O-Zone musical group.
3. The single "Live your life" recorded by him for the singer Rihanna brought Balan a Grammy nomination.
4. For a long time, the singer lived in the United States, in the center of New York he bought himself an apartment. But this is not the only real estate of the singer, he has houses in different parts of the world.