After Morandi were chosen for "Best artist in Romania", the pop duo, consisting of composer Marius Moga and singer Andrei Ropcea (Randi), will fight for the prestigious award in the category "Europe's favorite" of the MTV Europe Music Awards.
Voting for "Europe's favorite" is already active and the deadline is on November 3. The official awards ceremony will be held on November 6 in Liverpool, England.
Morandi's opponents in this category are Nightwish, Leona Lewis, Eurovision 2008 - Dima Billan and others.
Morandi is a Romanian pop band composed by Marius Moga and Andreas Tefas Ropcea. They participated this year at the Romanian National Final with the songs “Dracula my love” and “Crazy”, the first one was disqualified from the semifinal and the second one was withdrawn the last moment. Morandi are very successful in Romania and they have already entered several European charts with their singles such as Beijo, Falling asleep, A la lujeba, and Love me.
Marius Moga is 23 years old and he “owns” 70% of the Romanian music industry. He is now in contact with several singers and composers from various countries after the success he had all over Europe.As he recently stated in an interview, apart from the albums he is composing for the Romanian artists he is also in touch with Yiorgos Tsalikis, the popular Greek singer.
As Marius Moga said in his interview, he has already composed some songs for Tsaliki’s next album that is going to be released soon while the lyrics are going to have Nektarios Tyrakis's signature. Nektarios Tyrakis has also penned Shake it, the song that represented Greece in 2004 in Turkey with Sakis Rouvas among numerous other hits in Greece. Morandi is expected to arrive in Greece soon to meet with Tsalikis and Tyrakis, so stay tuned for more information...
You can read Morandi's interview here (in Romanian)
