Dorin Liviu Zaharia


Dorin Liviu Chubby Zaharia was a Romanian musician, composer, poet, essayist, and philosopher.
A "completely unclassifiable", "nearly mythical figure", Zaharia was an autodidact in all he undertook.
Nicknamed "Chubby" by his peers in the Popa Nan neighborhood because of his propensity to imitate Chubby Checker, Zaharia was the lead singer of Olympic '64, arguably one of the first Romanian bands interested in mixing Romanian folklore music with the popular music of the 1960s. Together with the other band members he composed the rock suites Decameronul focului alb and Karma Kaliyuga, but both are now considered lost, as no recordings have survived.
Zaharia was interested in Indian philosophy and mysticism, and he became the spiritual leader, the "shaman", of a group of friends, the so-called Group of Seven. Zaharia was used as a model by Ioan Petru Culianu in two short stories, Oglinda ovală and Istoria III.

Family

Zaharia was married to Magdalena Hofmann-Soare, an artist, with whom he had a daughter, Maria. He is buried in Berca. Andrei Oisteanu mentions his wife as "Magda Zaharia".

Discography

Together, with Dan Andrei Aldea or with others, he composed and interpreted, wholly or partly, the music for several movies, such as:

Films directed by [Dan Pița] and [Mircea Veroiu]