Andreea Bănică
Andreea Bănică in 2017
Born	Andreea Bănică (1978-06-21) 21 June 1978 (age 45) Constanța, Romania
Education	Ovidius University
Occupations	Singer songwriter
Years active	1998–present
Spouse	Lucian Mitrea ​ (m. 2008)​
Children	1
Musical career
Genres	Pop dance EDM
Labels	Cat Music Sony Music
Formerly of	Exotic Blondy
Website	andreeabanica.com
Musical artist

Andreea Bănică (Romanian pronunciation: [anˈdree̯a bəˈnikə] (born 21 June 1978)^[1] is a Romanian singer and songwriter. She was part of the girl groups Exotic (1998–2000) and Blondy (2001–2005).^[2][3] In 2005, Bănică started a solo career and became one of Romania's most successful pop artists, with 2 number ones and 15 Top20 singles, as well as hit songs like "Love in Brasil", "Samba", "Hooky Song", "Sexy", "Shining Heart" and "Rain in July".^[4]

She also won various awards, including the Romanian Music Awards, Romanian Top Hits, MTV European Music Awards and the Balkan Music Awards. Bănică speaks Romanian, English, Spanish and Brazilian-Portuguese.^[5]

Career

She first came to public attention at the 1998 Mamaia Festival. Along with Claudia Pătrăşcanu and Julia Chelaru, she started the group Exotic. In the two years they were together, the group released three singles ("Watch me", "Sexy" and "A Kiss"), and recorded two albums: Sexxy and Passionate.

Bănică started her solo career after leaving Exotic. In 2001, together with Rus, she formed the group Blondy. The group released three albums (So Close, Part of You, Sweet and Bitter) and a replay. Altogether, Blondy released six videos, and won the award for best dance band offered by Radio Romania in 2003.^{[citation needed]} Rus left the band in 2005, launching a solo career. Bănică continued with Blondy. Dansez, Dansez, an album composed by Laurentiu Duta, achieved gold status for sales^{[citation needed]}. Two singles were released, "Lovers" and "Sweet and Bitter".

Bănică single "Fiesta" gave her a number one hit on the Romanian charts.^{[citation needed]} She received an MTV award for "Best Solo Artist."^{[citation needed]} After that, she performed under her own name.^{[citation needed]}

Her second solo album was entitled Rendez-vous, from which "Fiesta" was released as a single. The second single from this album was "Rendez-vous".

In 2008 she released a new video for the song "Trust", directed by Dragos Buliga. In the spring of that year she released "Hooky Song" featuring Smiley, with a video directed by Iulian Moga.^{[citation needed]}

She released a video for the song "Le Ri Ra" in March 2009 despite being pregnant.^{[citation needed]} In August 2009, a new single, "Samba", was released in collaboration with Dony.^{[citation needed]} This single won her the RMA Best Video award in 2010.^{[citation needed]} In early 2011, a Best Of collection was released.^{[citation needed]} At the RRA Awards, her 2011 song "Love in Brazil" was named best Latin dance song.^{[citation needed]}

In 2019 the singer was chosen by Walt Disney Pictures to provide the Romanian voice of Juarez in the live-action G-Force^[6] and in the movie Mummies. ^[7]

Discography

Studio albums

Compilation

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Promotional singles

Filmography

Television

Film

Awards and nominations