2009-07-23

Dona Dumitru Siminica

Top tracks from Dona Dumitru Siminica: La Salul cel negru, Cine are fata mare & more. Men have sung in falsetto for centuries — from 17th-century English church choristers to The Bee Gees, Prince and today’s operatic superstar counter-tenor, David Daniels. Now there’s a new release from one vastly overlooked practitioner of sky-high singing: the ultra-suave Dona Dumitru Siminica. Virtually unknown outside his native Romania, with a perfectly pencil-thin mustache and a voice that flutters in mid-air, Siminica packed cafes and clubs in Bucharest in the 1960s. His style is rooted in the Gypsy Lautari tradition of slowly paced melancholy love songs, laments and drinking songs....