Sofia Vicoveanca

She escaped with her mother to the commune of Vicovu de Jos in Suceava County; out of love for the village, she later changed her stage name to Sofia Vicoveanca.

She graduated from the Școala Populară de Artă in Suceava before winning, in 1959, a competition to join the same city's "Ciprian Porumbescu" Ensemble of Song and Dance.

Since 1998, she has performed as a soloist with Moldavia's foremost folk music orchestra, the Ensemble "Rapsozii Botoșanilor" in Botoșani.

She has given performances around Romania and abroad, touring Israel, Portugal, the United States, France, Denmark, Germany, and former Yugoslavia.

Sofia Vicoveanca has played roles in several Romanian films, demonstrating unexpected dramatic talent, and has published two volumes of poetry: Dureri ascunse (1996) and Cu inima-n palme (2004).