Irina Loghin (born February 19, 1939) is a

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

n singer and politician, known as the best-selling artist from her domain in Romania. Born in Gura Vitioarei,

Prahova County Prahova County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in the Historical regions of Romania, historical region Muntenia, with the capital city at Ploiești. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 762,886 and the population density was 161/k ...

, she had a career as a

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be ca ...

soloist. She made her radio debut in 1963, and in 1967, began a successful duo with . In the early 1980s, due to a wish expressed by

Elena Ceaușescu Elena Ceaușescu (; born Lenuța Petrescu; 7 January 1916 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician who was the wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and leader of the Socialist Republic o ...

, who was jealous of Loghin's popularity, the latter was forbidden from performing on stage, and was unable to do so until after the

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. She joined the Greater Romania Party in 1998, Adriana Stanca
"Irina Loghin, la 74 de ani"
''Gândul'', February 18, 2013 and in 2000, she was elected to the

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for a

Dolj County Dolj County (; originally meant ''Dol(no)-Jiu River, Jiu'', "lower Jiu", as opposed to ''Gorj'' (''upper Jiu'')) is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in Oltenia, with the capital city at Craiova. Demographics In 2011, ...

seat. In 2004, she was elected to the

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for a

Giurgiu County Giurgiu () is a county ('' județ'') of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Giurgiu. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 265,494 and the population density was . * Romanians – 96% * Romani ...

seat. She and her husband Ion Cernea have a son and a daughter. In 2015 the artist was chosen by

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to provide the Romanian voice of a witch in the animated movie '' The Black Cauldron''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Loghin, Irina Living people 1939 births People from Prahova County Romanian folk singers Romanian women folk singers Greater Romania Party politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Members of the Senate of Romania Recipients of the Order of Honour (Moldova)