Biography:

Gabriel Cotabiță (1 November 1955 – 23 November 2024) was a Romanian pop and rock singer.

Life and career

Cotabiță was born on 1 November 1955. He graduated from the Craiova‘s Institute of Electrotechnics, becoming an engineer.[1]

Cotabiță debuted in rock music in 1975 with the group Redivivus[1]. In the 1980s, he was a member of the well-known rock group Holograf. In 2002 he joined a group of rock then musicians and together they formed the band VH2, of which Gabriel was a vocalist.

He was also a host of a Callatis Festival[2] and also a prominent part of a Romanian mainstream rock scene. He had a few notable collaborations with artists such as Ștefan Bănică, Jr. and Loredana Groza.

Cotabiță died aged 69 from a stroke, on 23 November 2024.[1]

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