Sandu Ciorba


Alexandru Ciorba, known as Sandu Ciorba is a Romanian Roma singer from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, singing Romani traditional music.
In 2013 he surprisingly became a YouTube celebrity in Poland. Polish viewers were attracted by his music videos described as a parody of manele music style, collecting millions of views from Poland. Under some of his videos 90% of comments were in Polish language. This phenomenon is summarized by a comment under his hit "Dalibomba": "It is a piece of sh*t, but I am watching it for the fifth time". The title of the hit was quickly phonetically translated in Polish as "Wielka dzika bomba", a perfect match for the hit's content. In 2015 Romanian press widely commented on the fact that Huffington Post UK tongue-in-cheek nominated Ciorba's hit "Pe cimpoi" " the weirdest video on the internet". The tune of "Pe cimpoi" draws upon Transylvanian folklore tunes.
These parody style songs is only part of Ciorba's work. In particular, he cooperates with manele singer Nicolae Guță. His songs appeared several films. Sandu Ciorba cooperates with Viper Production music studio devoted to Romani music.

Discography

Some songs of Sandu Ciorba were included in various collections of Roma music by Viper Productions.

Filmography

Sandu Ciorba's songs have appeared in several films.