Costel Busuioc

Costel Busuioc (born 21 October 1974, Goruni, Tomeşti, Iaşi) is a Romanian tenor Starting as a poor worker and shepherd, Busuioc settled down in Madrid, Spain in 2006, where he started working as a bricklayer in order to support his family back home. Busuioc has sang opera arias and Christian music since he was a teenager; he used to be a cantor in several Transylvanian churches. While in Spain, a friend insisted that he take part in an audition for the local immigrant-oriented talent contest called Hijos de Babel (sp. "Babel's children"). Of the 4,000 people who had initially signed up for the contest, Busuioc was pronounced the winner on 13 March 2008, after passing a tie-break stage the same day – he first sang the air Libiamo ne'...