Arsenium

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Arsenium performing in a duet with Natalia Gordienco at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Love Me ..., Love Me ...
  DE 33 06/20/2005 (9 weeks)
Rumadai
  DE 32 09/26/2008 (5 weeks)
  AT 50 09/26/2008 (1 week)

Arsenium (born July 22, 1983 in Chișinău , Moldovan SSR ; actually Arsenie Todiraș ; Cyrillic Арсение Тодираш) is a Moldovan pop singer .

Career

Todiraș had his first appearances as a double bass player with the group Stejari ("Eichen"), when he was 17 he took singing lessons. He finally got to know Dan Bălan through his singing teacher and later formed the boy band O-Zone with him and Radu Sîrbu , which initially enjoyed success in their home country and in neighboring Romania . With the single Dragostea din tei the band achieved an international number one hit in the summer of 2004; it was followed by the top ten hit Despre tine .

After O-Zone announced their separation in spring 2005, Todiraş started his solo career under the stage name Arsenium. Dan Bălan has been continuing under the stage name Crazy Loop since October 2007.

With his first single Love Me…, Love Me… , which borrows from the Russian folk song Kalinka , Arsenium hit the German charts in June. Todiraş finished in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens together with Natalia Gordienco and the song Loca for Moldau 20th place. In Romania the title reached 4th place in the charts. Since August 2008 the singer has a record deal with Sony BMG .

Discography

  • 2005: Love Me ..., Love Me ... (single)
  • 2006: Loca
  • 2007: Professional Heartbreakers
  • 2008: Wake Up
  • 2008: Rumadai (single)
  • 2009: Minimum (single) (only released in Moldova until further notice)
  • 2010: Remember Me
  • 2010: Erase It
  • 2010: Буду рядом
  • 2011: My Heart
  • 2012: I'm Giving Up
  • 2014: Porque te amo feat. Sati Kazanova (GlobalRockstar)
  • 2016: Только с тобой (What Is Love)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Arsenium
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toderaș, Arsenie (real name); Тодираш, Арсение (real name, Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moldovan pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Chișinău , Romania