Fly Project

Fly Project
Background information
Origin	Bucharest, Romania
Genres	Dance, Eurodance, house, trance, latin
Years active	2005-present
Labels	Roton
Website	FlyProject.ro
Members	Tudor Ionescu Dan Denes

Fly Project in the photoshooting "La Vita e Bella" in 2012

Fly Project is a Romanian dance/trance and latin pop DJ group, formed in Bucharest, having Tudor Ionescu and Dan Denes as members.^[1] In 2011, the band was nominated to MTV Europe Music Award for Best Romanian Act.^[2] Since the musical grop's foundation in 2005, the band performed at more than 2,000 concerts worldwide.^[3]

Career

Fly Project made its debut in music already in 2005 with the song "Raisa". The song became popular, reaching charts in Europe, including the French Singles Chart and the Romanian Top 100. Then they released their debut studio album, called Fly Project.^[4] One year later, a Romanian language song, called "K-Tinne" reached the position #52 in Romanian Top 100's 2007 year-end chart, while reaching the first position in their native country's weekly chart.

After a break, the band released "Brasil", which topped charts from Romania, Russia, Greece, Spain, Moldova, Turkey, the Netherlands, Serbia^[4] Hungary and other. The single was nominated for "Best dance song" on theRomanian Music Awards.^[5] Their song "Mandala" from 2011, reached for the first time a top-ten peak position in Russia and the later released song "Goodbye" was the most playied song in their native country in that year. It rose up to popularity in more countries and reached the first position in the Romanian Singles Chart and the fourth position in the Romanian End-Year Chart. "Musica" was released in 2013 and became the band's second most successful single. It was a top-ten hit in Italy and Russia and was certified gold by the FIMI.

Fly Project's most successful single is "Toca-Toca". It was shortly a global hit. The single reached the first position in two countries and the chart in over fifteen countries like France, Belgium and Spain. It was again certified gold in Italy.

Members

Tudor Ionescu

Dan Denes

• Tudor Ionescu (b. 3 November 1979, in Brașov)
• Dan Denes (b. 4 March 1974, in Petroșani)

Discography

Albums

Singles

As lead artist

Featured in

• 2014: "Hello" (Mandinga feat. Fly Project)

Awards and nominations

References

1. ↑ Cosmin Navadaru (2011-05-24). "Top 10 piese românești". Hotnews.ro. 
2. ↑ "MTV Romania - MTV prezinta nominalizarile la 2011 EMA Best Romanian Act!" (in Romanian). Mtv.ro. Retrieved 2014-04-18. 
3. ↑ "FLY PROJECT — все треки, все видео, тексты песен, биография — Радио ENERGY 104.2 FM" (in Russian). Energyfm.ru. 2012-06-15. Retrieved 2014-04-18. 
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "FLY PROJECT at ProFM". profm.ro. Retrieved 2014-07-09. 
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Câștigatorii Romanian Music Awards 2008" (in Romanian). Music Channel Romania. Archived from the original on 2012-01-11. Retrieved 2014-05-21. 
6. ↑ "Fly Project discography". ultratop.be/fr/. Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 August 2014. 
7. ↑ http://acharts.us/performer/fly_project
8. ↑ "Fly Project discography". lescharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 June 2014. 
9. ↑ http://ozz.zpav.pl/muzykawbiznesie/toplistyprzebojow.php
10. ↑ "Fly Project discography". spanishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 June 2014. 
11. ↑ http://www.swisscharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Fly+Project
12. ↑ http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1399153639304182&date=%401404532800&fromform=1
13. ↑ http://top40-charts.com/chart.php?cid=45
14. ↑ http://www.italiancharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Fly+Project

Further reading

• VIDEO! Fly Project canta la ziua lui Roberto Carlos, a1.ro, 13 Aprilie 2011 (Romanian)
• Fly Project a cântat pentru Roberto Carlos, libertatea.ro, 13 Aprilie 2011 (Romanian)

External links

• Official website
• Fly Project at Discogs
• Fly Project at AllMusic
• Fly Project at MusicBrainz
• Fly Project at last.fm
• Official Facebook
• Official VK
• Official Twitter
• Official YouTube channel
• Official Instagram
• Fly Project on iTunes