Initially, he worked in a design office, but at the urging of friends, he appeared in 1963 in the TV program "Looking for a star".
Over the next two years he sang mainly in bars and night clubs in Bucharest.
In 1965 he joined the team of the Constantin Tănase theater, with whom he went on numerous tours, singing in the socialist countries, but also in Germany, Austria and Belgium.
He was part of the Romanian team, with Aura Urziceanu and Mihaela Mihai, winners of the European Cup contest organised in Knokke, Belgium, in 1971.
In 1973, the weekly cultural magazine Săptămîna recognized him as the most popular singer in Romanian history.