Dona Dumitru Siminica

Men have sung in falsetto for centuries -- from 17th-century English church choristers to The Bee Gees, Prince and today's operatic superstar counter-tenor, David Daniels. Now there's a new release from one vastly overlooked practitioner of sky-high singing: the ultra-suave Dona Dumitru Siminica. Virtually unknown outside his native Romania, with a perfectly pencil-thin mustache and a voice that flutters in mid-air, Siminica packed cafes and clubs in Bucharest in the 1960s. His style is rooted in the Gypsy Lautari tradition of slowly paced melancholy love songs, laments and drinking songs.

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