Sandu Ciorba

Alexandru Ciorba, known as Sandu Ciorba (born December 30, 1968 in Beiuș) is a Romanian Roma singer from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, singing Romani traditional music.

In 2013 he surprisingly became a YouTube celebrity in Poland. Polish viewers were attracted by his music videos described as a parody of manele music style, collecting millions of views from Poland.[1] Under some of his videos, 90% of comments were in the Polish language. This phenomenon is summarized by a comment (in Polish) under his hit "Dalibomba": "It is a piece of sh*t, but I am watching it for the fifth time".[2] (As of 2019, "Dalibomba"[3] has over 36.5 million views) The title of the hit was quickly phonetically translated in Polish as "Wielka dzika bomba" ("Huge Wild Bomb"), a perfect match for the hit's content.[1] In 2015 Romanian press widely commented on the fact that Huffington Post UK tongue-in-cheek nominated Ciorba's hit "Pe cimpoi" ("On Cimpoi" or "By Cimpoi"; over 36.8 million views[4]) " the weirdest video on the internet".[5][6] The tune of "Pe cimpoi" draws upon Transylvanian folklore tunes.[1]

These parody style songs is only part of Ciorba's work. In particular, he cooperates with manele singer Nicolae Guță.[1] His songs appeared several films. Sandu Ciorba cooperates with Viper Production music studio devoted to Romani music.[7]

Discography
  • 2007: Fără adversari Vol.2 (with Nicolae Guță), Viper Productions, iTunes [8]
  • 2008: Fără adversari Vol.3 (with Nicolae Guță), Viper Productions, iTunes [9]
  • 2012: Fără adversari Vol.4 (with Nicolae Guță), Viper Productions, iTunes [10]
  • 2015: King of Gipsy Music, Viper Productions, iTunes[11]
  • 2017: Fără adversari Vol.5 (with Nicolae Guță), Viper Productions, iTunes [12]

Some songs of Sandu Ciorba were included in various collections of Roma music by Viper Productions.

Filmography

Sandu Ciorba's songs have appeared in several films.

References
  1. "Wielka, dzika bomba", by Witt Wilczyński, April 1, 2013
  2. INTERIA.PL. "Sandu Ciorba: Rumuński Weekend?".
  3. Dalibomba on YouTube
  4. Pe cimpoi on YouTube
  5. "VIDEO "Huffington Post": "Pe cimpoi" a artistului Sandu Ciorba, nominalizare pentru "cel mai ciudat videoclip" de pe internet".
  6. "Music Videos Are Different In Romania", by Ryan Barrell, The Huffington Post UK
  7. (www.autoportret.ro), Autoportret.RO. "Despre-viper-production - Viper Production". www.viper-production.ro.
  8. ""Cine e la Mine-n Gand" from Fara Adversari Vol. 2 by Nicolae Guta & Sandu Ciorba on iTunes". 1 December 2007.
  9. ""Smechera" from Fara Adversari Vol. 3 by Nicolae Guta & Sandu Ciorba on iTunes". 1 December 2008.
  10. "Fara adversari Vol.4 by Nicolae Guta & Sandu Ciorba". 17 December 2012.
  11. "King of Gipsy Music by Sandu Ciorba on iTunes". 3 July 2015.
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2018-01-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. "Charlie Countryman (2013)" – via www.imdb.com.
  14. Liberté original soundtrack (Liberté is the French title for the movie Korkoro)
  15. "Transylvania (2006)" – via www.imdb.com.
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