He learned music from his father (who also played the nai, the Romanian pan pipe, in a band (taraf) of Lăutari) and brothers.

Fănică Luca himself would also play in such orchestras, developing great skills and gaining a reputation as a pan pipe virtuoso.

Remarkable is the fact that Fănică Luca never learned reading musical scores, he always played by the ear.

In 1937 Fănică Luca received the "Ordre des Palmes Académiques" from the French Ministry of National Education.

Thereafter he gave concerts in Russia, the People's Republic of China, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and the USA.