Career built through senior roles at Deezer and Universal Music Group, developing deep expertise across the music value chain: from content and partnerships to licensing and market strategy. Strong focus on bridging creative vision with commercial impact, with extensive experience working alongside artists, labels, and key industry players on high-impact initiatives. Founder of a marketing and events agency, leading large-scale cultural projects and international collaborations within the global music ecosystem.

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Since 2023 they’ve played festivals such as Electric Castle, Transylvania International Film Festival and the BuSH Budapest, MMB Bucharest & SoAlive Sofia showcases.

The band released their debut album Familiar Faces in 2024, exploring themes like wellness culture, climate grief or boredom in relationships.

Their 2025 EP Petals marks a sonic change from the album – no acoustic guitars this time – as the band experiments with punk, lo-fi & electronic elements, while maintaining their melancholic sensibility. The songs drift through themes of pop psychology, impermanence, fading friendships & isolation. The EP featured on Bandcamp’s New & Notable.

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With the release of their second album, +SHE+ continue to push boundaries, blending genres like dark wave, post-punk, and drama-pop to expand their dark sonic universe. To fully experience the  depth of this record, it must be heard in its entirety, as it unfolds Corina’s deeply personal journey—navigating themes of trauma, identity, self-expression, and raw human emotion.

Corina’s stage presence is shapeshifting, from a vampire-esque figure with long dark hair to her knees, headbanging with a powerful stance, to a slender, delicate being conducting the listeners with her hand gestures. 

Currently working on a new album, +SHE+ have established themselves as a powerful presence in Romania’s not-so-underground music scene. They have performed both nationally and internationally, gracing festival stages like Summer Well Festival (RO), Fekete Zaj (HU), Waves Vienna (AUT), and the MMB Showcase (RO). They also shared the stage with acts such as Health (USA), Patriarchy (USA), and Soley (Iceland).

Links:
Website: www.shemusic.ro
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/corinasucarov/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SHE.music.Romania
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@corinasucarov

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But she also worked with music festivals like Neversea, SAGA and Massif, or brands like Mastercard and Pepsi that involved music in their campaigns as Project Manager on behalf of Advertising agencies. Adina has also worked for most of the Film Festivals in Romania, including Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), where for 5 years she took over the music bookings. 

Recently she took over Comms & Social Media for Control Club (the most active one in the city) with focus on Live Acts, but not limited. She also turned to being an artist manager and agent for +SHE+, a fierce woman-led musical project from Romania. Her background in the music industry started with DIY concerts, followed by working as a Promoter and nowadays she hosts Sqweez! Queer Techno parties.

• Personal Social Media Links: 

LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/popescuadina/ 

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/popescu.adina/ 

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/popescu.adina/ 

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In 2023, Andra co-founded Sync About It, the first conference and music camp in the region dedicated to music synchronization. Held in Bucharest, Romania, the event serves as a platform for songwriters and producers to collaborate on projects aligned with briefs from music supervisors, promoting knowledge exchange, best practices and industry trends.

Andra’s career spans multiple fields of the music business, including PR, artist management, booking, event organization and A&R. She also manages the alternative rock band Gramofone, who have released two albums and performed at major festivals. Beyond her roles in music, she has been the PR Manager for East European Comic Con for over 11 years, acting as a spokesperson for the event.

Additionally, Andra contributes to soundcheck management at the Beach, Please! festival, Europe’s largest urban festival. 

Her varied experience and genuine love for music and culture inspire her to keep learning and contributing to the field in meaningful ways. Driven by her passion, she constantly seeks to expand her knowledge and bring fresh perspectives to the industry.

Links: https://linktr.ee/AndraVasile 

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He complemented his educational foundation with specialized studies in sustainability at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and “Design Thinking and Creativity for Business” at INSEAD. His superpower? Empowering people to drive business transformation.

Links:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ionutpolexe/

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Links:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carinasava/

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Due to her extensive experience, in 2006 she starts teaching music business in Romania.

In 2009 she becomes the first Romanian music business professional to graduate the Master in Music Business program from Berkelee College of Music (Boston, USA).

In 2016 she founds the first international music business conference in Romania – Mastering The Music Business conference & showcase festival – which quickly becomes a relevant professional event in the CSEE area. She is the pioneer of music business education in Romania.

Currently she is President of RAW Music (the main organiser Mastering the Music Business and Romania´s official music export office) and Executive Director of INDIERO (the Romanian indie labels & music publishers association, affiliated to IMPALA and WIN).

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Chances are you’ll also see ballet dancers on the stage or maybe some sort of theatrical performance. Sometimes the music becomes a live soundtrack for avant-garde silent films or even for chess games played by the audience.

During the past 8 years, the band played in 38 out of 44 European countries on club or cultural stages, and also for festivals like
Nuits Sonores, Printemps de Bourges, Fusion, Amsterdam Dance Event, Electric Castle, Untold, Jazz in the Park, Electronic Beats, Eurosonic, Tallin Music Week, Stereoleto etc Some of these stages were shared with great bands like GusGus, Underworld, AltinGun, Poni Hoax etc

Debut LP “Soundtrack for a Game of Chess” has been nominated ‘album of the month’ by Vice Magazine, declared ‘one of the most valuable releases of the year’ by Radio Romania Cultural.

The Vocal Edits (2016) was declared Best Romanian Electronic Release of 2016 by Scena9.ro and stamped “probably the best Romanian album of its genre in the last 30 years” by the journalists of the musical blog Muzici&Faze.

Memory EP (2021) was featured on BBC 6, full album announced for spring 2023

Links:
http://www.knotk.com/
http://www.facebook.com/karpovnotkasparov
http://www.instagram.com/k.not.k
https://open.spotify.com/artist/44cbEMJmNNTtS1kgMYoQx5
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/karpov-not-kasparov/784382121
https://karpovnotkasparov.bandcamp.com/
http://www.soundcloud.com/knotk

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