Name: Dan Mikhailovich Balanstage name: Dan BalanDate of birth: February 6, 1979Age: 40 years old zodiac sign: AquariusPlace of birth: Chisinau, MoldovaHeight: 190Profession: singer, producer, composerMarital status: not married
Dan Balan is a popular Moldovan singer, successful musician, and poet. Did you know that the talented Dan graduated from school in the accordion class, and his parents were preparing the fate of a lawyer for the future singer? And that is not all! Read the full biography of the famous artist, see photos and find out the details.
Dan Balan had a long way from an unknown Moldovan singer to a world-famous celebrity. The talented performer has worked with many famous stars: Rihanna, Jesse Dylan, Missy Elliott, and others. However, he might not have been realized as an artist, since his parents sent him to law at a young age.
However, Dan turned out to be persistent and nevertheless followed the call of his heart – he became a musician!
A handsome man with Moldovan roots, Dan Balan has long gone beyond the boundaries of his own homeland and began to move towards his goal with leaps and bounds. The sensational hits of the sexy brunette sounded in all corners of the world. And the musical creations “Love”, “Only until the morning”, “Chica Bomb” won many world awards. What is known about Dan Balan? What was his childhood and path to success like? Let’s talk!
Childhood
The future artist was born on February 6, 1979, in Chisinau. Dan’s parents were famous and successful people: his father was engaged in political activities, and his mother was a popular TV presenter.
Little Dan has been familiar with the world of show business since childhood and eventually became interested in music.
At the age of 4, the boy spoke to the public on an entertainment TV show. And at the age of 11, he was presented with a musical instrument – an accordion – and sent to study at a music school so that he would develop his talent.
Later, Dan performed waltzes of his own composition on this instrument. As a teenager, he played in the band Pantheon and Inferialis and they played gothic doom metal music. But over time, these groups ceased to exist. This period of music lessons was at an amateur level, but professionally Dan Balan began to study at the age of 20.
“My parents, of course, saw that I was interested in music (I started writing it at the age of 10), but they could not even think that it would become my profession. Moreover, I told them about my choice in 1997, when there was not a single pop star in Moldova yet and one could be a musician, either playing in a symphony orchestra for $10 a week, or at weddings.
Both options meant in the end begging and starvation. And then I inform them that for the sake of music I leave the prestigious law university, which I just entered. Of course they were shocked!”
The starting point in stellar life
Dan Balan realized that he would gain real popularity only through commercial music. And 1999 became a fateful year. Together with the ex-participant of “Inferialis” Petr Zhelikhovsky, he creates a new group called “O-Zone”.
The members of the group created pop music and rapped. A couple of months later, the band recorded their first album. In one of the interviews, the singer admitted that he had to use a trick to get his way:
“I knew that major record companies receive tons of demo tapes every day and the chances that my disc will be selected and listened to from this pile are negligible. And I went to the trick: I asked my mother, an incredibly spectacular woman, to give the disc to the manager. I had no doubt that he would definitely be interested in what kind of music such a beauty writes.
And so it happened. The deception, of course, was quickly revealed, but the material was so good that it no longer mattered: we started working with this company.
A song called “Dragostea din Tei”, which is also known as “Numa Numa song”, topped the charts in dozens of countries around the world, and even reached number three in the UK and sold 12 million copies. The disc of the DiscO-Zone team became the best-selling!
O-Zone – Dragostea Din Tei
But, despite the immodest success, in 2005, the members of this group decided to stop working together. The team broke up, and each member took up a solo career.
Solo swimming by Dan Balan
Exactly one year after the end of the existence of the sensational group “O-Zone”, Dan Balan went to conquer America. He took the pseudonym Crazy Loop and recorded his album called “The Power of Shower”. The difference between Dan Balan in the new image was the performance of falsetto songs and incendiary songs.
The disc “The Power of Shower” was quite positively received in Europe, and the performer himself was awarded the “MTV Europe Music Awards” in the category “Best Romanian Act”.
Now Dan Balan has gained worldwide fame, and this opened the door for him to collaborate with many foreign celebrities. So, a little later, he wrote the song “Live your life” for the singer Rihanna, which brought him a Grammy nomination in 2009.
In 2010 everything changed. The musician decided to re-release the Crazy Loop mix album and got rid of the pseudonym in favor of his real name. Then he presented to the public the song “Chica Bomb”, the video clip for which was directed by Heim Williams, who worked with Jay-Z, Missy Elliot, and many others.
One by one there were premieres of songs and all became hits.
In 2010, Dan released the track “Justify Sex”, as well as the track “Rose Petals” recorded with the popular singer Vera Brezhneva in a duet, which immediately reached the top of the Russian charts.
In 2011, the songs “Freedom”, which for a long time was the leader of many charts, and “Only until the morning” were played on the radio for a long time and often. The singer is still working on creating new songs, lives in New York, and often comes to Russia and Ukraine.
A year later, in May, he releases video clips for the songs “Not Loving” and “Love”.
Then he continues to actively tour and writes music.
In March, singer Dan Balan, together with the Romanian artist Matteo, presented a new video for the song “Allegro Vertigo”. Hot dances around the campfire at night, beautiful girls, and the artist himself sings in Spanish and plays the guitar. On February 7, 2018, a three-month all-Ukrainian tour of the popular artist Dan Balan started. Now the artist travels to many cities in Ukraine with a concert.
And in December 2018, it became known that Dan Balan would try himself in a completely new capacity – he would take one of the judges’ chairs in the of the Country project.
Dan Balan – songs
Interesting facts from the life of Dan Balan
1. Something that Dan Balan cannot do without:
“Well, you all know Maslow’s pyramid. about human needs. We all need the physical first. It’s food and sleep. Is always. And no matter how much we want to answer romantically, it is still the way it is. We are always waiting until we get rich and buy ourselves everything we dream of. Therefore, the artist lives under the motto “Eat or die!”.
2. Dan Balan had his first kiss at the age of 13, and at 15 he had his first sex.
3. When an artist is relaxing or taking a bath, he thinks about girls and music.
4. If he had not chosen creativity in life, he would have chosen sports.
5. Dan Balan is a fan of Metallica.
4. In 2015, the media wrote that Dan did not have his own car.
Love affairs: Dan Balan’s personal life
Unfortunately, the Moldovan artist is reluctant to share the details of his personal life – he has it under seven locks. Quite often, he was previously credited with an affair with Vera Brezhneva, but later the singer explained that there could be nothing between them, since she was married and this was taboo for both.
“I am a free bird, an artist, and so far everything remains so”
— said the artist in a long interview.
As the artist previously admitted, he had a serious relationship with three women who meant a lot to him. Representatives of the press in 2004 stated that Dan married his beloved Ella. Soon she bore him a son, Alan. But after a while, the wife became jealous of her husband’s fans, as a result, they divorced in 2009. After the divorce, the relationship between the ex-lovers was very tense, but the artist kept in touch with his son.
In 2015, he stated in one program that he had a relationship, but he would not tell anything more.
In 2016, in the program “Secular Life with Katya Osadchaya”, Dan Balan admitted which girls he likes:
“The main thing is magic. It doesn’t matter if you’re brunette or blonde. The main thing is that there is that same magic between us. ”
The artist has not yet created a family, but he dreams of a house with a garden, where he will live with his beautiful wife and kids.
In the past few years, Dan Balan has been actively performing together with Tina Karol. stars create such romantic images that fans have already begun to attribute relationships to them. How plausible this version looks is up to you, because the artists themselves stubbornly deny that there is anything between them.
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