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- Aura Urziceanu (born Bucharest, 14 December 1946), also known as Aura, is a Romanian female pop star who was famous in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Aura bio
Aura's incredible voice has been stunning audiences and critics alike for over four decades. As Nat Hentoff said in his book The Grove International Encyclopedia of Jazz, "She is a phenomonel singer!"
As well as building a formidable discography, Aura has performed extensively around the world with jazz giants - she toured the US and Japan with Quincy Jones, covered the US and Europe with Duke Ellington, and toured Scandinavia with Thad Jones and Mel Lewis (which culminated in their recording an album together with the Swedish Radio Orchestra). Her appearances include such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Newport Jazz Festival and Village Vanguard.
She's been declared a national treasure in her native Romania (where she is known by her maiden name Aura Urziceanu) but has been based in Toronto since the early 70s with her husband, Canadian jazz drumming legend, Ron Rully.
She continues to tour internationally as well as give master classes throughout Europe, her voice as well as her passion having grown richer with time. "Aura made as dramatic a
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Aura Urziceanu
Aura Urziceanu (born Dec. 14, 1946) is a U.S.-based Romanian jazz singer who released numerous albums on Electrecord during the 1970s. In 1974, she recorded the big band/jazz-funk album Seară de Jazz cu Aura with piano work by Marius Popp.
Discography:
- Aura (1972)
- Arie din suită (1973)
- Seară de Jazz cu Aura (1974)
- Oh My Love (1975)
- Dulce cîntec românesc (1977 • Aura & George Urziceanu)
- Once I Loved (Am iubit odată) (1977)
- Over the Rainbow (1977)
- Thad and Aura (1977 • Thad Jones & Aura Rully)
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Aura Urziceanu
Romanian pop singer
Musical artist
Aura Urziceanu (born Bucharest, 14 December 1946), also known as Aura, is a Romanian female pop star who was famous in the 1970s and 1980s.[1] In America she had performed as Urziceanu-Rully and Aura Rully.[2]
She has toured and performed with artists such as Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Ahmad Jamal, Hank Jones, Thad Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, Paul Desmond, Joe Pass and Mel Lewis.[3]
References
- ^Denise Roman Denise Roman, Fragmented Identities: Popular Culture, Sex, and Everyday Life in Postcommunist Romania (New York: Lexington Books, 2003) 0739121189 - 2007 "In the late 1980s, the most famous Romanian vocalist-stars of muzică ușoară [light music] were Angela Similea, Corina Chiriac, and Mirabela Dauer, together with the rocker Dida Dragan and the internationally acclaimed Aura Urziceanu, a professional jazz-singer who, in the 1970s had concerted in North America accompanied by Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, Dizzie Gillespie, and Ella Fitzgerald.
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