Jean Moscopol

He could play several instruments (including the banjo and mandolin) and, besides Romanian, spoke French, Italian, English, German, and Greek fluently.

H. Nicolaide hired him at the Alhambra Revue Theatre, where he sang in the operettas Alhambritta, Lăsați-mă să cânt, and Contesa Maritza.

In 1932 he went to Berlin, where he recorded discs with famous orchestras such as Hönigsberg and James Kok, and took bel canto lessons with Professor Korst.

[1] With the end of World War II, Moscopol's fortunes changed, as his political opinions stood in marked contrast to those of the Romanian Communist Party then gaining ascendancy.

Arriving in New York City, he worked as a hotel porter, investing the money he earned into a small musical ensemble.

[3] Due to his vehement opposition to the Russification policies put in effect during the Soviet occupation of Romania, the Communist regime tried to erase Moscopol from the national memory by marginalizing him.

Around 2005, director Ștefan Gladin [ro] met with great difficulties when he sought information about Moscopol for a biographical film; few archival documents about him remained.

Jean Moscopol (real name: Ioan Moscu, 1903–1980) was a well-known Romanian singer of the interwar period, who spent his last years in the United States.