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Rock-s-ana · Trimis: 02/01/2008 11:05 Titlul subiectului:

About Morandi (band)

Morandi is a Romanian pop music group composed of Marius Moga and Andreas Tefas Ropcea (Randi). The group's name derives from the first two letters of Moga's name and Ropcea's nickname, Randi, creating Morandi.

Aside from being successful in Romania, the group's single Beijo ranked highly on several pan-European charts in the summer of 2005, including the MTV Europe chart and the World Chart Express. Morandi were nominated as Best Romanian Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2005, even though the award was won by Voltaj.

At MTV Romania Music Awards 2006, Morandi won the Best Song award (for Beijo) and the Best Video award (for Falling Asleep).

Albums
Reverse (2005)
Mind Fields (2006)
N3XT (2007)

Singles
Love Me (2005) in Romanian Top 100
Beijo (song in Portuguese, 2005)
Falling Asleep (2006) - music videoclip
A La Lujeba (2006)
Oh La La (English version of Beijo)(2006)
Afrika (2007) - music videoclip
Angels (2007)
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Rock-s-ana · Trimis: 02/01/2008 11:09 Titlul subiectului:

About Marius Moga
Marius Moga is a Romanian music artist, born in Alba Iulia on December 30, 1981.

He is a well-known composer in Romania who has collaborated with bands like Akcent, Blondy, Andreea Balan, Hi-Q, Corina, Cream, Anda Adam, Morandi, and Simplu.

At the age of 19, the young Marius Moga decided to go to Bucharest, where he met Adi Sana (singer in Akcent band). He listened one of Marius' songs and invited him to co-operate for their next album. Marius accepted and voilà!...everybody was very surprised about the original sound of the song. This is how Marius Moga started his collaboration with most of the Romanian bands and singers. He is known as "Little Mozart" or "Little Genius".

He even started his own project called Morandi with a friend named Andreas Tefas Ropcea (Randi). The group's name derives from the first two letters of Moga's name and Ropcea's nickname, Randi, creating Morandi. For this project which is very personal for him, he is composer and singer at the same time.

Marius was accused of plagiarism and missed the chance of participating to the 2007 Eurovision, although acquitted by specialty committees and even the British composer whose piece he was accused of allegedly plagiarizing. Marius's chief accuser, Ionel Tudor, a composer of the Ceauºescu era generation, was himself expelled from the Melodii '86 national contest by then Conservatory president Nicolae Calinoiu for plagiarizing a Bulgarian song (at a time when Bucharesters used to watch Bulgarian TV shows).

Morandi is the name of one of the most powerful Romanian musical projects that emerged in 2004. Their first single, the English-language track "Love me", was released on the market without an actual physical image. Nobody knew that behind Morandi were Marius Moga – one of the most successful Romanian producers, songwriters and artists – and Andrei Ropcea, a.k.a. Randi, a.k.a. Andreas Stefas, a very good friend of Marius and one of the members of the Sunrise Records crew. The actual steps of Love me were very simple. Marius Moga and Randi entered in the studio, composed the song and released it on the radio and in the clubs without knowing that it will become such a smashing hit. After being played over and over again on the radio, after topping first places in charts all around the country, and after the great impact that the video of the single had upon all viewers, Morandi crew decided that it was time to take it to the next level.

And this is how they released the album Reverse. Reverse is a very interesting effect – reversed vocals – that was used almost on every track on the album that contains 11 songs, dealing with styles as disco funk, club and chill out. Morandi means also the most surprising collaborations with top Romanian artists as Loredana (Groza), Smiley (from the band Simplu, Alexa U (Alexandra Ungureanu). With the release of the REVERSE album on the market came also the moment to take off the masks that metaphorically covered the faces of Marius Moga and Randi. People found out that Morandi was a Romanian project, that the songs were written and produced by Romanians. And the success became even bigger. Morandi has already been nominated 3 times at the MTV Romanian Music Awards 2005 considered being one of the best Romanian music groups at this moment. The nominations for Best Song, Best New Artist and Best Dance are a great recognition for the work of Marius Moga and Andrei Ropcea and for the project MORANDI. 2006 saw the release of a new Morandi album on the Romanian market. The first single, “Falling Asleep” has been no. 1 in the Romanian Top 100 Singles airplay for several weeks and won the MTV Romania award for Best Video.
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