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  Romania on the Eurovision Stage The Artist Elena Gheorghe was born on July 30th, 1985 in Bucharest, Romania. Gheoghe grew up in a musical household, her mother was a folk artist and her father a priest. She made her musical debut at age 3, recording a song with her mother called Sus în Deal în Poieniţă . She was the lead singer in the band Mandinga from their start in 2002 until she left to go solo in 2005. The group released two albums in this time, De Corazon and Soarele Meu . She won the award for best song of 2007 at the Romanian Top Hit Music Awards. She married her husband, Cornel Ene, in 2011. He is a trombonist and has won several national and international awards. Romanian National Identity As examined in blog post 1, Romania’s national identity has shifted a fair amount in the last 100 years in an effort to westernize and fit in with the rest of Europe. The rest of Europe has begun to see their relationship with Romania blossom into a partnership, as Romania has j...

  Romanian National Identity  My own definition of national identity National identity is something that is hard to precisely define. My personal definition is anything about a specific nation that is shared by a large portion of the population. My personal idea of national identity is something that comes from inside the nation, so that it is reflective of the actual residents of that nation, rather than just an ideal that has been popularized by the government. National identity is not and should not just be based on the ethnic background of a nation, rather it should be what makes the nation different from others.  3/4 primary aspects of Romania's national identity In order to understand modern Romanian national identity, it is important to understand where it all came from. According to the mythology, the Romanian people are a result of the Roman Empire conquering and colonizing the Dacian Kingdom. Even though later ethnicities continued to pass through the region in ...