Edward Maya

Edward Maya (born Eduard Marian Ilie; 29 June 1986) is a Romanian DJ, musician, producer, performer, and composer. He graduated from George Enescu Music High School in Bucharest and is currently a final year student at the Bucharest Conservatory.

Career

In and around 2006, Maya worked with many other Romanian artists such as Akcent, Vika Jigulina,. He worked also on the song Tornerò, which was performed by Mihai Trăistariu in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006. He added in an interview on Beat-Town.com that this song "was the beginning of my career"

In the summer of 2009, Maya launched his first song as an artist, "Stereo Love", reaching No.2 in the Romanian singles charts. Later that year, "Stereo Love" became a hit in clubs all over the world. While this success was followed by concerts worldwide, the song entered the top-5 singles charts in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK. "Stereo Love" has received over 200 million YouTube views since August 2009.

Vika Jigulina

Vika Jigulina (born February 18, 1986) is a Moldovan-born Romanian music producer, singer, and disc jockey.

Life and career

Victoria Corneva was born in Cahul, Moldova. In 2000, Jigulina moved to Timișoara, Romania and continued her studies while there. She worked in various local clubs and eventually worked in the capital city Bucharest. She landed weekly shows on Romanian radio stations that earned her nationwide exposure and fame. In 2010, Jigulina officially became a Romanian citizen. She is currently working as a disk jockey for Radio 21 Romania and Vibe FM.

Jigulina has made mixes with ATB, Tomcraft, Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso and other artists. She is widely known as the vocalist in the international dance hit "Stereo Love" by Romanian producer and musician Edward Maya. Jigulina's first solo single, "Memories," was released on September 29, 2012.

She has also appeared in Playboy Romania 2012 as a Playmate of the month.

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

References

Stereo Love

"Stereo Love" is a 2009 song recorded by the Romanian musician Edward Maya with the Moldavian-Romanian musician Vika Jigulina, released as their debut single in late 2009 from Maya's album The Stereo Love Show. The refrain is from "Bayatılar", composed by Azerbaijani musician Eldar Mansurov. It became a worldwide hit in nightclubs and rose to the top of French, Dutch, Turkish, Finnish, UK, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish and Irish singles charts.

The song and the music video were both included on the compilation NRJ Music Awards 2010. The music video was filmed in Greece, as Edward Maya stated in an interview that Greece "was a place that I fell in love with". In 2011, the song was awarded as top dance song at the Billboard Music Awards.

Composition

"Stereo Love" is set in common time with a moderate tempo of 125 beats per minute. It is set in the key of C# minor with a simple chord progression of C#m-A-E-G#m.

Lyrically the song speaks of a passionate love between two people that is now dying, and their struggle to rekindle that flame.

Maya

Maya may refer to:

Civilizations

Edward

Edward is an English and Polish given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon form Ēadweard, composed of the elements ead "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and weard "guardian, protector".

Variant forms

The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte.

Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo, German and Dutch Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy, Woody and Ned. Edward can be abbreviated as Edw.

People called Edward

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