Sorin Chifiriuc
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Sorin Chifiriuc is a rock
, new wave
and blues
guitar
ist and vocalist.
Affectionately called Kifi by his fans, and a graduate of the Bucharest Music Conservatory, he is also known for his unconventional behaviour on stage.
Member of many well-known Romanian rock bands, such as Curtea Veche Nr. 43, Sfinx
, Iris
, Domino, Roata.
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
, new wave
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
and blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
ist and vocalist.
Affectionately called Kifi by his fans, and a graduate of the Bucharest Music Conservatory, he is also known for his unconventional behaviour on stage.
Member of many well-known Romanian rock bands, such as Curtea Veche Nr. 43, Sfinx
Sfinx (band)
Sfinx was one of the most appreciated Romanian rock acts in the 1970s, along with Phoenix.-The early years :The band was formed in 1963, in Bucharest. It was singer and guitarist Octav Zemlicka who had the idea to start the band...
, Iris
IRIS (Romanian band)
Iris is a Romanian hard rock band established in 1977 by Ioan Dumitrescu , Ion Olteanu and Emil Lechinţeanu...
, Domino, Roata.
External links
- Performing with "Roata" (audio)
- Performing with "Sfinx" in the movie "Te astept mereu" (1982) (video)
- Performing with "Iris" (20th anniversary concert) (video)