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DelaDap (formerly !DelaDap and !Deladap) is an Austrian music project with the personal and creative constant Stani Vana. Vana initially worked with international musicians from the Czech Republic, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Russia. The creative approach was to combine Roma music with jazz, electronic music and pop music. With the album "I Know What You Want" (2012), "Dela Dap" turned to danceable, urban pop music with elements of club culture and global folklore.

Band History

The name DelaDap is Romani and means "give me the beat". The Prague-born producer Stani Vana developed the idea for the music project before 2002 and toured Europe from 2003 to 2005 with the Hungarian drummer Endre Hoffmann, the Slovak violinist Stefan "Pizzur" Banyak and the Serbian guitarist Aleksander Stoijc.

These two years of intensive tours before the second album Dela Paji, released in 2006, have had a significant impact on the music, as various guest musicians from Central and Eastern Europe bring their individual style to the project on the album. The singer Leonsia Erdenko and some musicians from the Russian-Ukrainian gypsy formation Loyko recorded pieces with DelaDap in Moscow. Bulgarian accordionist Martin Lubenov also contributed, and Czech-born saxophonist and producer Philip Noha (Frank Popp Ensemble) from Cologne worked with Stani Vana on the Slavic traditional "golden shower".

The live ensemble was expanded in 2006 to include two Roma singers Eva Banyakova from Bratislava and Simona Senkiova from Prague as well as the Slovak double bass player Dezider “Dezo” Rigo. In January 2007, singer Eva Banyakova gave birth to her first child. Romni Kristina Gunarova from Prague has been on her tour with DelaDap since autumn 2006. The Bosnian accordionist Alen "Djamba" Dzambic and the double bass player Jovan Torbica from Montenegro, who replaces Dezider Rigo, also came to the live formation. In early 2008, violinist Pavel Shalman, who had previously played at Russkaja, became part of the band. In 2012 DelaDap, meanwhile with singer Melinda Stoika, took part in the Austria Rocks Song Contest, the national preliminary round for the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku. Because a YouTube video of a DJ set by Vana and Stoika appeared on YouTube, showing an early version of the song Crazy Swing from a club appearance in Odessa before the prescribed earliest release date, the title was disqualified. The band then went out with the replacement title Don’t Turn Around. In the same year, I Know What You Want, the fourth album by DelaDap, was released and it was again nominated for the Amadeus Awards (2013). From 2013 to 2014, the Viennese singer Tania Saedi joined the band as Stoika's successor. Yola B, previously heard as a guest, has been the band's singer since 2014 and Noma D. since 2015

On July 11, 2014 the music video for the song Listen Up celebrated its world premiere in Erla / Austria. This one shot video was created together with the Musikverein Erla. The band DelaDap drives an Excalibur Series II Roadster, a luxury car built according to plans from the 1970s, through the Donauau of Erla. At the end of the video, the band meets the music club Erla, who carries the message of the song, in the chorus it is not in vain that “This is DelaDap!” Carries it out into the world.

After Crazy Swing, Listen Up is the most successful video of the band DelaDap on Youtube.

DelaDap first published on the Viennese label by Daniel Hantigk ecco chamber, then with his successor Chat Chapeau in the distribution of Soulseduction, which went bankrupt in 2008. Since then, sales have been carried out by Hoanzl and PopDisl. In January 2008 Mr. Hantigk ended his job as label manager, since then the chat chapeau label has been managed by Stani Vana.