Phoenix

Transsylvania Phoenix, or, more commonly, just Phoenix, is one of the most prominent Romanian rock bands of the latest decades, and also the first one to inspire their music from ancient Romanian folk themes.

Phoen

Transsylvania Phoenix, or, more commonly, just Phoenix, is one of the most prominent Romanian rock bands of the latest decades, and also the first one to inspire their music from ancient Romanian folk themes.

Phoenix was started off in the cosmopolitan town of Timişoara, in 1962, by a group of schoolboys: Nicu Covaci, Moni Bordeianu, Bela Kamocsa, Pilu Ştefanovici, Doru Creşneac, under the name of Sfinţii (The Saints). In their first years they performed in school contests and at local clubs, covering Western music hits from the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the Who, etc., and they quickly became very popular amongst the youth. In 1965 the Communist authorities demanded that the band stop performing under the name The Saints, because of the religious innuendo that the name carried. Forced to comply, the band took the name Phoenix.