Like many other “manele” (a kind of Romanian songs) singers from Romania, Florin Salam started to be a star singing at weddings, parties and other private celebrations. Florin Salam sings passionately and he started when he was 4 years old. He took his father's accordion and played at it for hours.

In Romania “manele” musicians are called "manelisti". Romanian intellectual class considers this kind of music being inspired from other people music and they also think it incite to subculture even it is one of the most disputed music genres in Romania.

During his career he collaborated with a lot of Romanian singers like: Costi Ionita, Vali Vijelie, Nicolae Guta, Daniela Gyorfi etc.

In 2006, Costi Ionita produced a movie inspired from Indian movies, where the dialogues between characters were interrupted by musical moments. In this movie Florin Salam got the role of a bad brother who was having a lot of bad entourage.

One of his best selling albums was named “Doar cu tine” (With you only) and it is collaboration with Costi Ionita. This album was sold in over 40 000 pieces and it was produced in Constanta, Romania where Costi Ionita has his own musical studio.

Florin Salam and other “manele” singers from Romania have created their own fashion style: they wear very tight T-Shirts, Tight white pants or jeans, white sneakers or expensive shoes and they wear exaggerated gold jewelry. They also prefer luxury cars like Mercedes S-Klasse or BMW because they like to show off.