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# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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O-zone
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The O-zone story started in Moldova, where Dan, Arseny and Radu first encountered the success. They were sure that the Romanian Musical Market would be a most interesting place for appearance and that Bucharest is a quite good an opportunity for making an international musical career. And they were right!
Exactly for this reason in 2002 they arrived in Romania to look for a manager and publisher with a Demo record in hands, confident in their talent. In that same year they met Dan Popi, chief manager of Media Services, official representative of Sony Music in Romania. It was then they made their start of a brilliant career.
O-Zone’s first great hit was `Numai Òu` (Only You). It appeared in the summer of 2002. With this piece the band conquered the Romanian Top 100. All the radios immediately started playing the song an only in a few weeks the boys entered the hearts of the Romanian public. The following autumn O-Zone released their debut album under the meaningful name `#1`. The second single from this album `Despre Òine` (For You) made of them the newest dance stars in Romania, and all radios and televisions were possessed by the O-Zone mania. Girls went crazy about the boys, the Romanian stadiums were full.
In 2003 O-Zone released their second album and directly climbed to the first place in Romanian charts. Only in Romania there have been sold over 250 000 copies of this album. The summer hit No 1 `Dragostea Din Tei` (Love under the lime-tree) is from this album. The song was written (like most of O-Zone’s songs) by Dan Balan. The moment this song was released in Romania it became a great hit there. This happened in the summer of 2003, one year before the entire world to fall in love for it.
The boys were ready to conquer the world with this composition when quite by accident they learned that their song was number one in the Italian charts, only that it was performed not by them but by the mysterious person Haiducii. Dan, Radu and Arseny were confused because they had never given permission to anyone to make a cover of their song. O-Zone’s lawyers brought a suit against Haiducii and did win the case. Haiducii’s version of the song was claimed to be illegal.
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Folklore
