Ileana Sărăroiu


Ileana Sararoiu was a renowned Romanian singer of traditional and popular folk music. While not as famous as Maria Tănase, she still remains one of the most important Romanian female folk singers alongside Maria Tănase, Maria Lătăretu, or Maria Ciobanu. Her song-masterpieces, according to Romanian experts, are: "Doi voinici din Valea Mare" and "Unde e Targovistea". The first is a song about two lads who went hunting but, instead, they encountered two sisters to whom they got married. The second is a story of a sad mother who waits for her son in a train station from a Romanian town. She does not see anybody came except a girl who she has never seen before. The girl turns out to be the wife of her son.
Sadly, during a wedding party where she was singing, Ileana Sararoiu suddenly collapsed and died from a brain aneurysm in 1979 at the age of 42.

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