[1] Cotabiță debuted in rock music in 1975 with the group Redivivus.
In 2002 he joined a group of rock then musicians and together they formed the band VH2, of which Gabriel was a vocalist.
He was also a host of a Callatis Festival[2] and also a prominent part of a Romanian mainstream rock scene.
He had a few notable collaborations with artists such as Ștefan Bănică, Jr. and Loredana Groza.
Cotabiță died from a stroke on 23 November 2024, aged 69.