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Roxana Ileana Popescu (born on February 14, 1957 in Bucharest and died on June 1, 2018 in Bucharest.) She was a writer and performer of Romanian origin. She became noticed thanks to the texts she wrote for the great performers of light music and the collaboration over several years with most of them.

Biography

Roxana Ileana Popescu was born on February 14, 1957 in Bucharest. The mother was a researcher-doctor at the Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences and the father was a lawyer. From the age of 6 months, she was raised by her maternal grandparents in Râmnicu Vâlcea. Here he lived and studied until the age of 14. Returning to Bucharest, he attended the "George Enescu" High School of Music, then the "Ciprian Porumbescu" Conservatory, the Faculty of Music Pedagogy. Here he had as teachers Richard Bartzer, Dan Buciu, Liviu Dănceanu, Dan Dediu, Anatol Vieru. In total, he spent 8 years at the Conservatory, also earning his Master's in Music Composition.

He also took Private Singing lessons with Richard Bartzer. Also, since high school, he took piano lessons with Ștefan Bonea.

Although she wanted to become a performer of light music, starting with 1982 she started her career as a lyricist.

In the history of Romanian light music, Roxana Popescu and Corina Brăneanu are the only lyricists who graduated from the Conservatory.

Collaborations:

Few people know that some of the first texts written by the artist were for rock music. He collaborated with Doru Tufiš on some texts for the Grup 2005 rock group from Drobeta-Turnu Severin, included on an album that appeared in 1983.

Also from 1982, collaborations followed with Mihai Elekes, Marius Popp, Laurentiu Profeta and then, from March 1983, with Ion Cristinoiu.

In total, he wrote more than 1000 texts. On the September 11, 2010 edition of the "Musical Psychologist" show, Roxana Popescu said that she had the most collaborations with Ion Cristinoiu (over 250 texts until 1989), Camelia Dascălescu (over 200 texts until 1989) and Laurentiu Profeta (over 200 texts until 1989).

He also had another beautiful collaboration with Alexandru Willmany, for whom he wrote the lyrics for 6 of his compositions: "In urma ta" (1984, Silvia and Mircea Dumitrescu), "Vom dansa din nou" (1985, Grupul Vocal Choralis), " If you'd like to come" (1986, Mihaela Runceanu, one of the most successful songs in Romanian light/pop music), "Someone loves you" (1986, Mihaela Runceanu), "Oamenii mării" (1987, Elena Cârstea), "When you will come" (1988, Sanda Pop).

He participated for the first time as a lyricist in a Romanian light music competition, at the "Melodii'82" Romanian Light Music Creation Competition (February 25 - March 2, 1983).

The first distinction was obtained on January 2, 1984 (date of broadcast on TVR), at the 13th edition of the popular TV contest "Slagăre în devenire", when the song "Winter Dream", to the music of Ion Cristinoiu and performed by Angela Similea, gets the Jury Prize.

In 1984, "If you hadn't existed" (music by Ion Cristinoiu), also performed by Angela Similea, became the first big hit in the history of Romanian pop/light music whose lyrics were signed by Roxana Popescu. Many more followed.

As a lyricist, she participated and was awarded at the biggest festivals and genre competitions in the country.

here are some of the great successes of Romanian light/pop music, in relatively chronological order, the texts of which are signed by Roxana Popescu: "Dacă nai fi zeitest" (1984, Angela Similea), "Să vorbești de pămărăune" (1984, Corina Chiriac), "We'll see each other tomorrow" (1984, Simona Florescu), "Ballad for my love" (1984, Marina Scupra), "Cine sunt eu..." (1984, Dan Spătaru), " Me and the longing of my dear" (1984, Dan Spătaru), "De azi pe maine" (1984, Carmen Rădulescu), "Serenade for your eyes" (1985, Florin Balcan), "Believe in my love" (1985, Mihaela Runceanu), "I'm not sorry" (1985, Silvia Dumitrescu), "Longing for life" (1985, Angela Similea), "Those summers of love" (1985, Eva Kiss), "I don't want anymore" (1985, Mirabela Dauer), "You are the ideal man" (1985, Angela Similea), "Clipe de iubire" (1985, Carmen Rădulescu), "De ar fi să vii" (1986, Mihaela Runceanu), "my love, don't forget" (1986, Emilia Ditu), "I trust you" (1986, Mirabela Dauer), "I want you to be near me" (1986, Roxana Popescu), "larta!" (1987, Mihaela Runceanu), "Come on, say it!" (1987, Mihaela Runceanu), "Like a holiday" (1987, Roxana Popescu), "Waiting to come" (1987, Adrian Daminescu), "All dreams come true" (1987, Alina Mavrodin), "I would like to I give you a star" (1987, Denis Roman), "People of the sea" (1987, Elena Cârstea), "How many times do I say goodbye" (1988, Mihaela Runceanu), "A sentimental man" (1988, Mădălina Manole ), "This is just life" (1990, Mădălina Manole), "Where there is no love, nothing is there" (1993, Gheorghe Gheorghiu), "I want to forget you" (1993, Mădălina Manole), "I see my my way" (1996, Gabriel Dorobanțu), "Too late" (1996, Monica Anghel), "Si vei pleca" (1997, Mădălina Manole), "White bells, black bells" (1998, Paul Seling), "Sing with mine" (1998, Mădălina Manole), "Angels do not cry" (1999, Laura Stoica), "And if my life" (1999, Nico), "Yes, I love you" (2000, Mădălina Manole), "You n- you had courage" (2000, Mădălina Manole), etc.

In the 90s, he collaborated a lot with Șerban Georgescu and after 2000 with Mădălina Manole (as a composer), Ovidiu Komoryik and Cristian Faur. In 2011, the song "The most beautiful star", performed by Bianca Lixandru, to the music of Cristian Faur and the lyrics of Roxana Popescu, was a great success.

Friendship with Mihaela Runceanu

The artist declared that her best friends were Mihaela Runceanu and Ana Maria Moculescu.

Mihaela Runceanu and Roxana Popescu met and became friends

in 1982. The two were also neighbors in the Dristor neighborhood of Bucharest.

Mihaela Runceanu lived on the ground floor of a block, on Mihai Bravu Street, No. 293, and Roxana Popescu lived with her mother in an apartment on Camil Ressu Boulevard no. 18, just a few minutes' walk away.

Conservatory graduates collaborated perfectly as lyricists/interpreters. They both had very strong personalities and often contradicted each other. They had an argument in September 1986 (they continued to collaborate professionally) but became friends again in February 1989. The tragic disappearance of Mihaela Runceanu, a few months later, on November 1, 1989, deeply affected Roxana Popescu.

The 13 songs performed by Mihaela Runceanu, based on Roxana Popescu's lyrics, were, in chronological order: "A sky of birds" (1983, Viorel Gavrilă), "I didn't see you" (1983, Viorel Gavrilă), "It's true, my love" (1983, Joel Diamond, Laurence Russell Brown), "I don't know how I fell in love" (1984, Viorel Gavrila), "Believe in my love" (1985, Ion Cristinoiu), "If to come" (1986, Alexandru Wilmany), "How are you, my love?" (1986, Ion Cristinoiu), "Someone loves you" (1986, Alexandru Wilmany), "You promised us cities" (1986, Horia Moculescu, in duet with Adrian Daminescu), "lartà!" (1987, Ion Cristinoiu), "Come on, say it!" (1987, Viorel Gavrila), "How many times do I say goodbye" (1988, Marcel Dragomir), "I didn't forget you" (1989, Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine). Several records have erroneously written that the text of the song "The flight of the wind" belongs to Roxana Popescu. It is signed by Eugen Rotaru.

Roxana Popescu's last collaboration with Mihaela Runceanu was on the song "Eu nu te am uitat", a cover of Scorpions, released on January 30, 1989. Roxana Popescu stated that the verse "And I cover myself today only with my soul" counts among the 10 most favorite verses he wrote.

Roxana Popescu as an interpreter.

Roxana Popescu was also a talented performer of light/pop music. As a performer, although she did not record much, she released two successful songs: "Vreau sa fiis sădă mine" (1986) and "Ca o zi de sărbață" (1987), both to the music of Laurentiu Profeta, with whom she was very close.

The song "Vreau sa fii sănă mine", was composed for someone else but, through Corneliu Meraru, the orchestrator of the song, Roxana Popescu made a voice and piano demo. The interpretation, full of sensitivity, made Laurentiu Profeta entrust the piece to him. When she recorded the song, the artist was going through very difficult times. On January 31, 1987, at the Multipurpose Hall in Bucharest, as part of the Romanian Light Music Creation Competition "Melodii'86" (January 30 - February 1, 1987), Roxana Popescu presented "I want to be near you", outside the competition.

Roxana Popescu - Mihaela Runceanu's best friend, lyricist and guild colleague:

Mihaela, "The Woman", went early, Mihaela as Artist and Teacher, lives on.

Why ?!...

She, Mihaela Runceanu promoted the transition from light music to pop music.

He practically lived(sang) his future

It's as if he remembered how the music will sound in 20 years. In the communist regime even music from the West was considered an enemy of the people.

Musical forms such as rock, pop, dance, jazz, were thrown away with stones from the soundscape of the homeland. In such an atmosphere, Mihaela Runceanu had the courage to promote (as a performer and teacher) a forbidden music. The public welcomed her with open arms, the composers were won over by her professionalism.

He had university musical training at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory. Singing studies. school

Popular Art (Nina Bercaru class).

She was the violin and singing teacher.

He had a well-shaped voice, remarkable technique, just intonation.

She sang crystal clear, warm, feminine and intelligent.

Instead of concluding: I wish success to all young people who want to do something with their lives.

Mihaela and I met on this land of promise.

We didn't have any kind of company back then. We only had the strength to believe that the impossible doesn't exist and that we will become someone in this Romanian light music.

And so the two of us, she as a performer, me as a lyricist, created songs that I remember:

To always be in your shadow, If you come, wide, I haven't forgotten you, and others.

This simple enumeration of titles means years of life, years of struggle, work, years of tears and joys.

"And yet, good people are the people who stay forever young, they are the people who never die. These people give us song, youth, love, joy, hope and faith in God.

And whenever we need song, youth, love and faith, these people return to earth, come "to live in us their life not yet lived".

These people never die.

Never.

Other professional activities.

Shortly after, on March 15, 1987, her mother died at only 55 years old, after a long and hard suffering, due to bone cancer.

10 days after her mother's departure, on March 25, 1987, Roxana Popescu debuted as an interpreter at TVR, the only television station in Romania at that time. Tudor Vornicu and Ileana Vlad, producers of the show "La Sfârșit de Săptămănă", which was broadcast every Saturday, invited her to film for the column "Musical Autograph".

In the same period, he starts performing in famous places in Bucharest, such as "Havana". In the 90s, he performed at the Odobești restaurant.

On July 12, 1987, in the gala evening of the second edition of the Costinești Dance Music Competition, Roxana Popescu presented outside the competition, "Ca o zi de sărbață" (Laurentiu Profeta), the second great success his. On March 11, 1987, also outside the contest, he will present the same piece at the "Melodii'87" Romanian Light Music Creation Contest (March 11-13, 1987).

It should be emphasized that the songs "I want to be near you", as well as "Ca o zi de sărbătoare", were presented outside the contest, because the composer Laurentiu Profeta was on the jury.

On August 29, 1987, at the "Mamaia'87" National Light Music Festival, he participated in the "Creation" section with the song "De dorul meu vei reveni" (music: Camelia Dăscălescu).

On September 2, 1989, he participated in the "Creation" section of the "Mamaia'89" National Light Music Festival, with the songs "For the sake of the coming day" (music: Camelia Dăscălescu) and "If my eyes tell you something" (music: Laurentiu Profeta), the latter being presented outside the competition.

In the period 1987-1989, the performer Roxana Popescu also appeared on 5 compilations (collective discs) released by "Electrecord", the only record company of that period.

In the period 1988-1990, "Electrecord" released a series of albums featuring two artists each. Thus, in 1990, the said record company released the album "Ducu Bertzi/Roxana Popescu", where the performer and lyricist Roxana Popescu is present with five tracks. The album was supposed to be released in late 1989, but due to the events of December 16-25, 1989, its release was delayed.

It would be 20 years before she made another recording appearance as a performer.

On August 10, 2010, at the initiative of an admirer of Mihaela Runceanu, the CD "Mihaela Runceanu/Roxana Popescu - a magical formula - creator of

story/storyteller" was released by Casa de Discuri "Electrecord". This album brought together many of the songs performed by Mihaela Runceanu and Roxana Popescu, most of them on the latter's lyrics.

As a performer, she collaborated with talented composers such as: Ion Cristinoiu, Camelia Dascălescu, Laurentiu Profeta.

In 1999, Roxana Popescu became a University Assistant-Canto Actori then, she worked in different televisions (Realitatea TV, Prima, Vâlcea1 TV) as director of casting and training for announcers, moderators and reporters.

The artists, dismayed by the death of lyricist Roxana Popescu

The artists are dismayed by the sudden passing away of the one who was Roxana Popescu, lyricist, but also a soloist recognized for her warm and sensitive voice. Social networks are full of links to songs with lyrics signed by the late lyricist.

Cristian Faur, composer and soloist, wrote:

White bells and black bells" today accompany Roxana Popescu on her way to eternity, a man who stirred our souls from the shadows through the lyrics of the songs written with the composers: Șerban Georgescu, Alexandru Wilmany, Viorel Gavrilă, lon Cristinoiu, Marius Teicu, Horia Moculescu, George Natsis, Laurențiu Profeta, Vasile V Vasilache and many others, penning countless hits for great Romanian artists: "De ar fi sa vii" and "lartă" (Mihaela Runceanu), "Suflet gol" (Mădălina Manole, for who wrote entire albums).

"Where there's no love, there's nothing" (Gheorghe Gheorghiu), "White bells, black bells" (Paula Seling), "People of the sea" (Elena Carstea Muttart), "And if my life" (Nico Matei) " (Mihaela Runceanu), "Why don't you tell me that you love me" (Mirabela Dauer), "Tell me about spring" (Corina Chiriac) ... as well as some songs that she performed herself ( the hit song "Vreau sa fii sădă mine") or many other covers from the international repertoire ("E vrutu iubirea mea" and "Eu nu te am uitat" performed by her best friend: Mihaela Runceanu). We all fell in love - Roxana Popescu for her brilliance of genius, but also for the fact that she was very direct in her expression, she didn't bypass anyone, she didn't bother anyone, saying exactly what she had to say. She wrote over a thousand texts and was never inspired by her personal life or that of the artist, and the lyrics of the songs written by her, always conquered the audience from the first audition, as it happened in our collaboration on the song "The most beautiful star" performed by Bianca Lixandru, the song that quickly became the most song played in national light music festivals. Good way to the stars, Roxana Popescu!

Cătălin Crişan, in turn, expressed his compassion and admiration for the one who was Roxana Popescu:

She wrote the lyrics to 10 songs, an entire album: "I was whitened by your longing". A very sensitive man, with extraordinary intelligence and an intuition beyond imagination. Thank you Roxana and God bless you.

Corina Chiriac also sent a message of condolences in a comment:

May God forgive her and rest her. I am sorry. Sincere condolences to the family.

The young soloist Lucia Dumitrescu also mentioned:

May God rest her... she wrote, I think, some of the most beautiful lyrics in Romanian music, for which we will always be grateful... she left us a huge fortune through her work...

Daniel lordachioaei said:

God, what talent this little girl had!!! Rest in peace, Roxana!

Composer Alexandru Wilmany also sent an emotional message:

A tear trembles through the lashes...Memories that come and go...A star that lights the path of immortality...A soul embraced by angels...A whispered prayer...God rest your soul in peace, dear friend !

Gheorghe Gheorghiu appealed to one of his famous songs:

There is no sun and no life, where you are not, ROXANA POPESCU! May God rest you in peace and quiet.

Luminita Teodora Vatasescu, former student of Roxana Popescu, said movingly:

My lady singing teacher in college. A man who gave me free singing lessons just because he was convinced I had a voice. But life wanted it differently... I am so sorry that he is no longer with us! Walk smoothly among the angels! I will keep you in my heart all my life! Thank you for everything!

Condolence messages have flowed from ordinary people to Romanian music stars.Said the author Mircea Nicolau.

Death

On Friday, June 1, 2018, around 3:00 p.m., at the Floreasca Hospital in Bucharest, Roxana Popescu left the stage of life, at only 61 years old, following an intestinal occlusion. The day before he had called 911. The artist was hospitalized and, after being in a coma for a day, she died. On June 2, 2018, the lifeless body of the artist was deposited by her relatives at the "All Saints" Church in Râmnicu Vâlcea. On June 3, 2018, she was buried next to her mother, in the Budești commune of Vâlcea county, which is only 4 kilometers from the town of Râmnicu Vâlcea.

Unfortunately, in 2018, we lost two of the most prolific lyricists of Romanian light/pop music: Roxana Popescu and Eugen Rotaru. Said Mircea Nicolau the author.

Sources of inspiration:

Mircea Nicolau Andrei Partos Titus Andrei