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Inglessis and his childhood friend Dorin Liviu Zaharia, nicknamed Chubby due to his style that resembled Chubby Checker, they started to write original music. The two rock operas that came out of this collaboration, the Dodecameron of the White Fire and Karma Kaliyuga made history at the Pop-Rock Music Festival organised by the Faculty of Architecture in Bucharest. The communist officials were not impressed with that kind of theatrics and the festival was banned for many years.
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195:" of December 1989, finds Costin in Paris with his architect colleagues. He organised immediately with a few friends from the diaspora an association called CRED (Consensus pour la Roumanie Européene et Démocratique) with the idea to help Romania at that precise moment. In addition, he managed to reform Phoenix for a one-off concert in the free world at "La Cigale" in Paris,
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By the time he turned five, Costin caught the attention of the renowned drummer and musician Sergiu Malagamba, a friend of the family, who predicted a great future in music for the little boy. His mother, member of a well known choir in Bucharest, never stopped to inspire and encouraged him. His
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Costin continues to expand his musical taste by listening continuously to Messiaen, Schöenberg, Stockhausen, Alban Berg, Steve Reich, John Cage, Xenakis (an architect of Romanian-Greek origin), Pierre Schaeffer and others. From this moment, Costin enters the world of the so-called "avant-garde
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Filotei but also of the music of some Romanian modern composers considered interesting in Europe at that time, including Iancu Dumitrescu, Aurel Stroe, Stefan Niculescu, Corneliu Cezar, Octavian Nemescu, Costin Cazaban, Horia Surianu etc.
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