Mandinga

Mandinga
Mandinga (2009)
General information
Genre (s)	Latin pop
founding	2002
Website	www.mandinga.ro
Current occupation
singing	Helen
Drums , vocals	Chupi
Keyboard , vocals	Omar
Trumpet , singing	Alex
Trombone , singing	Tony
Percussion , vocals	Nino
Saxophone , vocals	Zach
former members
singing	Elena Gheorghe (2002-2005)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

Zaleilah   DE 92 06/08/2012 (1 week)   AT 55 06/08/2012 (1 week)

Mandinga is a Romanian Latin Pop band that has existed since 2002.

The group from Bucharest mixes Latin American music with dance and pop elements and has already released various albums in Romania. Until the end of 2005 Elena Gheorghe was the singer and front woman of the project, after whose departure Elena "Helen" Ionescu was engaged.

The group won the Selecția Națională , the national preliminary decision in 2012, with the title Zaleilah , and was therefore allowed to compete in the first semifinals for Romania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku . After evaluating the televoting, the group qualified for the final four days later. There they reached twelfth place. The single was released on May 21, 2012 and entered the German, Austrian and Swedish charts in early June.

Discography (albums)

• ... de corazón (2003)
• Soarele meu (2005)
• Gozalo (2006)
• Donde (2008)
• Club de Mandinga (2012)

Web links

• Official website
• Mandinga at eurovision.de
• Mandinga at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ austriancharts.at: Zaleilah
2. ↑ ^{a b} hitparade.ch: Zaleilah
3. ↑ Mandinga for Romania to Baku  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at eurovision-austria.com