Departed Moldovan singer commemorated at 60th birthday anniversary

Chisinau, 15 November /MOLDPRES/ - A departed light music singer, Doina Aldea-Teodorovici, was commemorated at her 60th birthday anniversary in Chisinau today.  

A commemoration feast took place at the church of the Central Orthodox Cemetery on the Armeneasca Street.  

Contacted by MOLDPRES, the mother of the departed singer, Eugenia Marin, said that Doina had not been only her child, but also her spiritual friend.

For her part, writer Claudia Partole said that she had known Doina at the Putna Monastery (Romania) during the Days of Mihai Eminescu.  

Doina Marin was born in Chisinau on 15 November 1958, in the family of intellectuals Eugenia and Gheorghe Marin. Her father was writer and journalist and her mother – teacher of Romanian language and literature, deputy headmaster at the School No 1 from Chisinau (presently the Romanian-French Gheorghe Asachi Theoretical Lyceum). Doina’s artistic gift appeared back in her childhood. Thus, beginning with the age of six years and till the eighth form, Doina participated in the dubbing of films into Romanian at the Moldova-Film Studio. Concomitantly, she studied music independently.       

Starting the age of 14 years, Doina Aldea-Teodorovici worked in the band Moldoveneasca, with which she made tours to more republics of the former Soviet Union, as well as to Mongolia, Algeria, Germany, Cyprus, Youth Festival held in Cuba. In 1975, she finished the Romanian-French school No 1 from Chisinau and also in that year, along with Yuriy Nikolaev, she was presenter of the programme Shire Krug. In 1979, she graduated from the Moldovan State University, Philology Faculty, specialty of Romanian language and literature. Starting from 1979 till 1988, Doina worked as teacher of universal literature at the Chisinau-based Ion Creanga Pedagogical University. In 1981, she married Ion Aldea-Teodorovici. On 5 August 1982, their son, Cristofor Aldea-Teodorovici, was born.      

Beginning with 1982, Doina discovered another side of her talent, the one of light music singer. Starting from this year, she was inseparable from composer, singer Ion Aldea-Teodorovici both on stage and in the daily life. In 1988, she was teacher at the Chisinau-based Music, Theatre and Fine Arts Academy; Doina was also soloist of the band DIATE. In 1989-1990, Doina along with Ion gave concerts in all cities, towns and village of Moldova, as well as in Romania: Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Brasov, Suceava, Iasi, Botosani, Focsani, Barlad, etc.    

In 1991, along with her husband, Doina got the press prize at the Mamaia-91 National Light Music Festival. In 1992, she was the protagonist of a film titled Dragostea ce mișcă sori și stele (Love which moves suns and stars), and in the same year, she together with her husband got diplomas at the Golden Stag Festival in Brasov, Romania.

Doina Aldea-Teodorovici participated in all events which marked the process of national revival and liberation. She sang more patriotic songs in duet with her husband Ion. In May 1992, along with husband Ion and poets Grigore Vieru, Adrian Paunescu and Andrei Paunescu, Doina sang in front of fighters during the Transnistria War. In 1992, she got the title of Merited Artist of Moldova. On the night of 29 to 30 October 1992, Doina and Ion Aldea-Teodorovici died in a traffic accident in the Cosereni settlement, 49 km far from Bucharest, when the car in which they were moving crashed into a tree. Doina Aldea-Teodorovici was awarded the Order of the Republic posthumously in 1993.