Family R3
Luncă
Gabi Luncă
Romanian Roma — Vărbilău, Prahova / Bucharest
Style: Lăutărească
Gabi Luncă. Digi24: Elena-Gabriela Luncă, born 16 October 1938, Vărbilău, Prahova; died 2 April 2021, Ilfov county hospital, COVID-19. Urban lăutărească. A different family from Puceanu.
Digi24, 3 April 2021: born 16 October 1938 in Vărbilău, Prahova. Father Dumitru Luncă, violinist of the Army Orchestra in Ploiești. She began to sing in 1951 with her father. From 1953, soloist of the workers’ folk orchestra at the Băicoi club.
From 1993 she left the lăutărească stage and sang only at Pentecostal services in Bucharest. Digi24.
Asphalt Tango: from Vărbilău in the Prahova valley; father the violinist Dumitru Luncă. Birth year 1938 matches Digi24. How many siblings Dumitru had is not settled here — six in some Romanian notices, twelve in the label note. That count is listed under Later.
Gabi (Elena-Gabriela) Luncă s-a născut la 16 octombrie 1938 în comuna Vărbilău, judeţul Prahova. Talentul muzical l-a moştenit de la tatăl ei, Dumitru Luncă, violonist în cadrul Orchestrei Armatei din Ploieşti. A început să cânte în anul 1951, alături de tatăl său.
Gabi (Elena-Gabriela) Luncă was born on 16 October 1938 in the commune of Vărbilău, Prahova county. She took the music from her father, Dumitru Luncă, violinist of the Army Orchestra in Ploiești. She began to sing in 1951, beside her father.
Lineage
Birth and death on a vertical line — generation by generation. Places are listed where we could find them.
Generation 2
Gabi Luncă
Voice — urban lăutărească · 1938–2021
Born 16 October 1938 · Vărbilău, Prahova — Died 2 April 2021 · Ilfov / Bucharest
Digi24. Father Dumitru, violin.
Generation 2
Dumitru Luncă
Violin — Orchestra Armatei, Ploiești
Father. Digi24.
Orchestra years
When the band was founded, when it split, when a new generation took the stand.
1951
Generation joins
Began to sing beside her father
With Dumitru Luncă
Digi24: she began to sing in 1951 with her father.
1993
Band ends
Left the stage for Pentecostal services
Urban lăutărească stage
Digi24: from 1993 she sang only at Pentecostal services in Bucharest.
Neighbours
Same country or city, but a different way of playing.
- Serban — Romanian Roma — Brăila → Scheveningen / Amsterdam / Delft
- Clejani lăutari — Romanian Roma — Clejani, Wallachia
- Zece Prăjini — Romanian Roma — Zece Prăjini, Moldavia
- Puceanu — Romanian Roma — Bucharest, urban lăutărească
- Mahala Rai Banda — Romanian Roma — Bucharest