Ioan Gyuri Pascu
Ioan Gyuri Pascu is a Romanian pop music singer, producer, actor and comedian, also known for his participation in the comedy troupe Divertis and for his activity in Romanian cinema and television. Moving between rock music, rhythm and blues, reggae and jazz, the multiinstrumentalist Pascu founded a number of bands and registered success particularly during the early 1990s, when he was the lead singer of a group known as The Blue Workers. Pascu was the manager of several alternative music acts with his label Tempo Music, and remains an outspoken critic of Romanian commercial radio.
Pascu is a native of Agnita , where he graduated from primary school. He was born to an ethnic Romanian father and a halfHungarian mother on his mothers side, he is also the descendant of Poles and Slovaks. His mother was a Roman Catholic and his father, like Gyuri, was a Romanian Orthodox. His name reflects his complex heritage Ioan was chosen as his Romanian name his second name was the Hungarian Gyurika, but it was recorded as Ghiurico in his birth certificate and personal documents ever sinceas Pascu later indicated, this was because neither his father nor the notary were familiar with Hungarian phonology. Pascu, who is fluent in the Hungarian language, prefers the hypocoristic Gyuri.
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