My relationship with music began years ago in the childhood around the age of five, in ’63 – ’64. In that period my family lived in a small house on the Sachelarie Visarion street, named after a soviet WW2 hero, nearby Obor Market, the biggest market in Bucharest to this day. It was a difficult period for people, the communist party ruled and Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej was the President of Popular Republic of Romania. We didn’t own a TV or radio and we had no electricity, but we had a Loudspeaker!! The Loudspeaker was a kind of radio on wire (not an internet wire 
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A cable was installed on the street which was connected to the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company, founded in 1928 by Romanian physicist and professor Dragomir Hurmuzescu. Of course the emission was On Air, but because most of the people did not have a radio, they also sent the signal on cable for those Loudspeakers! It was a 0,5 W loudspeaker into a wooden case with a transformer for impedance adapter and a volume knob. The Loudspeaker was on all day long, so it was my first source of music. And believe me, I was fascinated with it!
The daily program was news, Romanian and international music, and lot of radio shows (theatrical, science, humor…). After a year or two, my aunt from my mother’s side bought the first TV set, a Rubin 102 with electronic tubes witch have also a radio capability. So in the evening but mostly Saturday and Sunday the whole family was around the TV to see “Telejurnalul” with Sanda Taranu, the first announcer of the Romanian Television. Being a little child in that period I liked all the music no matter if it was popular music, opera and operetta, light music. The first Romanian singers I’ve heard were Grigoriu Brothers, Margareta Paslaru, Ioana Radu, Toni Buiacici, Gica Petrescu, Luigi Ionescu, Aurelian Andreescu, Faramita Lambru and many others! One of the most loved show at the time and many years after was Unda Vesela (Happy Vave) on Sunday afternoon around half past one o’clock, when the whole family was gathered around the table for the lunch time. The period was difficult and the people were poor. A regular salary was around 600 – 700 lei, on the whole street only few people had a radio or a TV, and only one car! I remember clearly it was a beautiful two doors red Skoda Octavia with white roof, witch belonged to an engineer, member of the Communist Party.
And so begins the story of my life, a child born in the suburbs of Bucharest in ’58, who was fascinated by the Voices on the Loudspeaker!
