Arsenium is a Moldovan singer. He was born on July 22, 1983 in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova.

He wasn’t a spoilt child and grew up in a very harmonious surrounding. His mother worked as a doctor, his father as an engineer. He has a younger sister who is “the best in the world!”. Despite growing up in a country which is said to be one of the poorest in Europe, he enjoyed his childhood.

Arsenium was always known as a big dreamer. His biggest dream was to become a big musician, someone whose songs would go down in music history.

Arsenium started to write his own songs when he turned 15 and it pleased him so much, he couldn’t stop. “I realized that it was the only way I could express myself, my feelings in the real life! I understood that there was a place for me and my dreams in this world.” Arsenium tried to confer the way he wrote songs to his real life. “I started to build up my life the way I create a song. Then I started to build the life of my dreams like a beautiful melody.”

At the age of 16, Arsenium joined a Moldovan folk band named Stejareii (The Little Oaks), playing the bass. In that time he started to perform on the biggest stages of the Republic of Moldova. But his first performance as a singer was at school. Arsenium tried to sing opera, more or less successfully. “It seemed so funny to me,” he says, “so I began to laugh on stage together with my classmates.”

When he was 17 he started to take singing lessons. His teacher was Larisa Shulga, who became a very important person in his life. She taught him the most important lesson an artist has to learn: “She taught me a lot of things about music,” he says. “And she shared with me her experience as an artist because she was a very famous opera singer across the whole former Soviet Union.” In teaching him, she unearthed his talent and introduced him to Dan Balan, who invited him to become a new member of O-Zone. After a few weeks the composition of the group was completed by Radu Sirbu. The new band became very successful in the Republic of Moldova and after conquering the Romanian market, they entertained the whole of Europe with their biggest hit.

“O-Zone gave me very good experience,” he says. “I traveled a lot with the guys all over the world, I slept less than ever but I felt really good.” He was accompanied by his two colleagues who were very talented artists and “very nice and friendly people.”

But now Arsenium is ready for his next big step. He has no released album.

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