[1][2] Georges Boulanger was born in Tulcea, Romania, from a Romani (Gypsy) family with a very long tradition in music.

Georges Boulanger is the artistic pseudonym of the violinist, composer and conductor Gheorghe Pantazi, who took the pseudonym given to his father by an officer in the navy, for his resemblance to the French general Georges Boulanger, while he was with a small orchestra of fiddlers at Sulina, as Jean Bart would describe this episode in his book, "Europolis".

I am the son of Vasile Boulanger (whom I'm sure you knew and who died in London 3 years ago, when I was singing at the Savoy Hotel).

The way it is written, details regarding the musical activity of his father (died in London in 1930), the precise indication of the reference of the place where the mother and grandmother were buried, show the artist's concern with the new Nazi legislation, which required proof of Aryan origin, being in fact the beginning of the ethnic cleansing process that would reach the abominable dimension of the extermination in the Nazi camps during the Second World War.

[1] Three years later, as he was playing Paganini, he was heard by the famous violinist and teacher Leopold Auer, who was fascinated by Boulanger's artistic skills.

[1] Under the recommendation of Auer, Georges Boulanger received a position of first violinist in the Café Chantant in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

It was here in Russia that Georges Boulanger met a young girl from Estonia named Ellionor Paulson.

In 1956 the recording of "My Prayer" by US R&B-pop act The Platters spent 23 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100, five of them at number one.

[1] During the Nazi regime he remained in Germany, at the end of the war living in Mecklenburg, an area occupied by the Red Army.