Moldova - Pasha Parfeni - Soarele Și Luna

18 - 96 pts / 5 - 109 pts in semi 1

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The Moldovan Finala Națională ESC 2023 saw some familiar faces and one of them, Pasha Parfeny, took the trophy. He has grown out his hair but he's the one that made us dance to his trumpet in Lăutar in 2012.

This time his song is Soarele Și Luna (The sun and the moon) written by Pasha himself (real name Pavel Parfeni) with 

Andrei Vulpe and 

Iuliana Parfeni. (Pasha is Iuliana's husband since 2017)

Sometimes his name is spelled Parfeny but it's actually Parfeni. I think.

Remix stuff

At Pasha's website is a link (top right) where you can download a few files that will help you make your own remix.

- Backing vocals acapella

- Lead acapella

- Main Caval = just the flute

Now go and add some beats and things.

We all know Lăutar from the Baku Eurovision which ended 11th in the final. All about that and his National Final tunes here at the Baku Collection.

He also wrote Aliona Moon's O Mie for Malmö 2013 which also ended 11th.

In the meantime he had time to grow a manbun.

Sunstroke & Aliona Moon, coincidence? They were #2 and #3 in this year's Moldovan selection Finala Națională ESC.

Parfeni spent some time in the Sunstroke Project but left before their first Eurovision entry in 2010.

Parfeni tried a few times in the Moldovan selection both as artist and as songwriter, here’s a list. 
2007 - Steaua Mea (as Pavel Parfeny) didn’t get to the final
2009 - No Crime - Sunstroke Project (as songwriter and member) 3^rd place
2010 - You Should Like (as Pasha) 3^rd place
2011 - Dorule 3^rd place 
2012 - Lăutar 11^th in the Baku Eurovision final (Aliona Moon was a backing vocalist)
2013 - as songwriter and on-stage pianist: O Mie by Aliona Moon - 11^th in the Eurovision final. In the national final it was performed in English as A Million but in Malmö it was sung in Romanian.
2015 - as songwriter: Maricica by DoReDos, 6^th place in Moldovan NF
2020 - My Wine 2^nd place in Moldovan NF

Important trivia: Pasha is one of four returning artists this year. He met one before, way back in Baku 2012.

Versions:
Soarele Și Luna - single version
- digital 19-2
Soarele Și Luna - karaoke
- on the official karaoke album

Charts
Finland top 50 (IFPI): 40

Bun free 2012

Links and sources:
Pasha Parfeny: Website, FB, Insta

Finala Națională ESC Moldova 2023 at ESC History.

Eurovision.md has all 30 songs in the competition
Remember Zdob si Zdub?, I do. 

The other returning Eurovision artists in this years selection were Aliona Moon and Sunstroke Project (2010, 2017) 

Dutch 2023 singer Mia Nicolaï also wrote a song (with Mike Connaris) that reached the Moldovan final this year and ended 7th. When Love's Real by Corina Ivanov.