Gheorghe Zamfir

Gheorghe Zamfir; born April 6, 1941) is a Romanian nai (pan flute) musician. Zamfir came to the public eye when he was approached by Swiss ethnomusicologist Marcel Cellier, who extensively researched Romanian folk music in the 1960s. The composer Vladimir Cosma brought Zamfir with his pan flute to Western European countries for the first time in 1972 as the soloist in Cosma's original music for the movie Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire. The movie received several awards, including the Top Foreign Filmfrom the National Board of Review in 1973. Zamfir continued to perform as a soloist in movie soundtracks by composers Francis Lai, Ennio Morricone and many others. Largely through television commercials where he was billed as "Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute", he introduced the folk instrument to a modern audience and revived it from obscurity.
==Links to Peel==
Peel played the musician's, 'The Light Of Experience (Doina De Jale)', track in the summer of 1976, which was the soundtrack to the BBC documentary series, The Light of Experience, It is not currently known whether the DJ played any further songs from the musician.
==Shows Played==
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*11 June 1976: Doinà De Jale (7") Epic
*15 June 1976: Doinà De Jale (7") Epic
*30 June 1976: Doinà De Jale (7") Epic
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Official Website
Category:Artists