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- ↑ Denise Roman Denise Roman, Fragmented Identities: Popular Culture, Sex, and Everyday Life in Postcommunist Romania (New York: Lexington Books, 2003) 0739121189 – 2007 "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 Drăgan and the internationally acclaimed Aura Urziceanu..."
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