Dan Andrei Aldea (9 March 1950 – 18 January 2020) was a

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, and keyboards, mainly) and

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, best known for his work with the band Sfinx, but also for his solo career. Aldea was born in

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, where he graduated from the Music Academy, and was known as one of the best electric guitar players from Romania. Aldea has lived in

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since 1981, after defecting. Just before defecting, he had played for several months in a night club in Belgium with his band Sfinx. He lived in Munich Germany and worked as studio and session musician for several music labels. Also he had several music projects and was playing among other things from 2001 until 2004 with Franz Trojan co - founder of the music group „spider murphy gang“and „Stefan Späth“ in the Band „thezeitgeist.“ Along with Dorin Liviu Zaharia, he composed the music for the movie '' Nunta de piatră'' ("The Stone Wedding"). He died in

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, aged 69.

References

* Caraman Fotea, Daniela și Nicolau, Cristian (1999). ''Dicționar rock, pop, folk'', pp. 18–19, 437–439. Editura Humanitas, București. * Ionescu, Doru (2005). ''Timpul chitarelor electrice. Jurnal de călătorie în arhiva TVR'', ediția 1, Editura Humanitas Educational, București. * Stratone, Nelu
Interview with Dan Aldea
published in „Art&Roll" (2002) * His time with „thezeitgeist“ - „Auf geht ´s Rudolf ! „ christmas song „LC 08269 Cosmic City Music Munich Germany“. * Article “Wochenanzeiger München vom 28.05.2003“ „Rock and Roll im Lustspielhaus München“ „ the band thezeitgeist vom 1. Juni 2003“ Romanian rock guitarists Musicians from Bucharest Romanian multi-instrumentalists Romanian film score composers Romanian defectors 2020 deaths 1950 births Romanian expatriates in West Germany {{Romania-composer-stub