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Dida Drăgan

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Dida Drăgan
Birth nameDidina Alexandra Drăgan
Born (1946-09-14) September 14, 1946 (age 78)
Jugureni, Dâmbovița County, Kingdom of Romania
GenresEasy listening
OccupationPop star
Years active1971–present

Dida Drăgan (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdida drəˈɡan]; born in Jugureni, Dâmbovița County, 14 September 1946) is a Romanian singer who is famous for rock music in the muzică ușoară (easy listening) music of the 1980s.[1]

In 1993, she represented Romania in the preliminary round of the Eurovision Song Contest but having finished in seventh place, she failed to qualify for the finals in Ireland.

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  1. ^ Denise Roman, Fragmented Identities: Popular Culture, Sex, and Everyday Life in Postcommunist Romania (New York: Lexington Books, 2007) ISBN 0739121189 "In the late 1980s, the most famous Romanian vocalist-stars of muzică ușoară were Angela Similea, Corina Chiriac, and Mirabela Dauer, together with the rocker Dida Dragan and the internationally acclaimed Aura Urziceanu..."[page needed]