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Damian
Draghici was born in Bucharest, Romania into an extremely distinguished
musical family that dates back seven generations. At the top of
his field in Romania, Damian began recording as a leader and a
sideman with the National Radio Symphony Orchestra at age 15.
Despite his successes, Damian was secretly making plans to defect,
due to the increasingly repressive political and social climate
he and his family were experiencing in communist Romania. For
the first year in Athens, Damian was homeless, getting by only
on money he made busking on street corners. He finally found more
substantial work as a nightclub pianist. The Berklee College of
Music (Boston, MA) got wind of Damianšs musicianship and offered
him a fully paid four-year scholarship. In 2001, Damian, together
with a 150-piece symphony orchestra, returned to the newly liberated
Romania to play to an audience of 72,000. Damian's latest endeavor,
a diverse album of his compositions aptly entitled Oneness.
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