Sofia Vicoveanca

Sofia Vicoveanca is the first artist ever signed by Roton. She is a singer of popular music from the Bucovina region. Sofia learned the traditional crafts of Bucovina as a youngster. She graduated from Suceava School of Popular Arts and in 1959 she won a competition to join the same city’s “Ciprian Porumbescu” Ensemble of Song and Dance. In 1965, she released her first album. Since 1998, she has performed as a soloist with Moldavia’s foremost folk music orchestra, the Ensemble “Rapsozii Botoşanilor” in Botoşani. The repertoire of Sofia Vicoveanca includes lullabies, wedding songs, doinas of love and longing, Christmas songs, laments, and ballads, but most of all songs of joy, some of them lightly admonishing or full of the humor of Romanian villages. During the course of her career, she has released ten solo albums and six collaborations, available on audio cassette, video, and CD. She has given performances around Romania and abroad, touring Israel, Portugal, the USA, France, Denmark, Germany, and the former Yugoslavia.