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Pavel Stratan father of Cleopatra Stratan
Pavel Stratan (b 11 November 1970) is a Moldovan rock singer born in the village of Nişcani, Raionul Călăraşi, Moldova.

In 1977, he played the guitar for the first time on stage, at school. In 1983, he wrote his first lyrics, while in 1996 he had his first real show-business experience as a sleight-of-hand artist.

He graduated from the Academy of Music, Theatre and Plastic Arts in Chişinău, Moldova.

In 2002, he launched his first album, Amintiri din copilărie (Memories of Childhood), in Moldova. In 2004, it was released in Romania, where it sold “like hotcakes” and where Stratan became widely known. Stratan currently lives in Romania with his wife Rodica, an engineer, and daughter Cleopatra Stratan (b. 2003), who already released an album of her own in 2006.
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Moldavian music
Same as O-Zone Band, Cleopatra Stratan cames from Moldavian Republic. Moldavian music came up in the latest years with many good artists as: Dan Balan, pop-singer, Maria Bieşu, opera singer, Lida Botezatu, pop-singer, Geta Burlacu, singer, Serafim Buzilă, composer, Maria Cebotari, opera-singer, Eugen Coca, composer, Contemporan, pop-group, Eugeniu Doga, composer, Mihai Dolgan, pop-singer, Valeriu Găină, guitarist, Legenda, pop-group, Radu Marian, opera singer, Gavril Musicescu, Moldovan-born Romanian composer, Ştefan Neaga, composer, Noroc, pop-group, O-Zone, pop-group, Orizont, pop-group, Zinaida Palii, opera-singer, Ştefan Petrache, pop-singer, Plai, pop-group, Sofia Rotaru, pop-singer
Anton Rubinstein, Moldovan-born Russian composer, Ion Aldea-Teodorovici, composer, Petre Teodorovici, composer, Trigon, ethno-jazz group and Zdob şi Zdub, rock-group.

Moldovan music is closely related to that of its neighbour and cultural kin, Romania. Moldovan folk is known for swift, complex rhythms (a characteristic shared with many Eastern European traditions), musical improvisation, syncopation and much melodic ornamentation . Pop, hip hop, rock and other modern genres have their own fans in Moldova as well. Modern pop stars include O-Zone, a Romanian and Moldovan band whose “Dragostea din tei” was a major 2004 European hit, guitarist and songwriter Vladimir Pogrebniuc, Natalia Barbu, who is well-known in Germany, Romania and Ukraine, and Nelly Ciobanu. The band Flacai became well-known in the 1970s across Moldova, turning their hometown of Cahul into an important center of music .

Moldova’s folk music and dance companies, troupes and orchestras are well-known, especially Jok, an academic dance company; a jok is a celebration that includes dances, as well as the part of a town where the dancing takes place.

The Orchestra of Moldovan Folk Music and Dance was founded in 1949; the orchestra plays Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, German music .

Music festivals in Moldova include The Faces of Friends, held in the town of Cahul; this festival was founded in 1996.