« Some bastards have assimilated me to a legionary movement! »

The folk music singer Maria Gheorghiu He accuses of canceling a concert scheduled by Flowers in Arad because he was considered to promote the Legionary Movement. The artist firmly rejects the accusations.

It all would have started after in February, at a concert in a club for some young people there would have been some legionary signs, which the interpreter did not know.

« Just what a flower concert was canceled in Arad, because some bastards assimilated me to a legionary movement!
I am not part of any such organization!
I’m not doing politics. My only policy is the song, it defines me and my songs have nothing to do with any extremist organization!
I just returned from Chisinau where I participated in Queen Maria’s days, where I sang my heart from Balchik.
I do not sing and I do not promote legionary songs! ”, The artist wrote on Friday on his Facebook page.

Subsequently, the singer returned with a new post, a right to reply to an unspecified article:

« (…) As I communicated you by telephone, the only concert this year was in Alexandria, organized by the County Council and the Writers’ Union. It was also in January the Mediaș Cetate Festival. In Bucharest I had no concert. I am recently operated on the heart and I also contracted a very aggressive interstitial pneumonia. I would not rise to my standards and not even forcing my heart.

The event you refer to was a private closed circuit party attended by only a few of my close fans and old fans. The space was made available to me by those who missed listening to me and who brought me to the event by car.

The group mentioned by you was neither involved in organizing nor in this private event. No legionary or extremist slogans were chanted. I played love songs from the Camp de Lavenda album and some patriotic songs: the heart from Balchik (dedicated to Queen Maria), the letter of a Moldovan peasant written for our brothers from Bessarabia, does not cry Romania (a song written after the letter found in the wound of a soldier dead in the First World War), Vasile Lucaciu, fighter for the rights of Romanians from Transylvania during the Astro-Hungarian Empire). I do not know that these songs have any legionary or extremist connotation. ”

right Speciallarad.rothe accusations would have to do with the fact that one of the songs sung by the artist at a previous concert in a club, on the lyrics of Adrian Păunescu, called « Ion’s sketch », refers to Marshal Antonescu. Also, people who would have been sympathetic to the legionary movement would have been in public.

Maria Gheorghiu is a folk music singer, born on August 28, 1963 in Reșița. He made his debut within the Flacăra Cenacle, and in 1993 he won the trophy of the prestigious national folk music festival « good man ».