Anca Parghel

Anca Parghel ( born September 16, 1957 in Câmpulung Moldovenesc; † December 5, 2008 in Timişoara, Timiş county ) was a Romanian singer of modern jazz.

Parghel studied at the Music Academy of the northern Romanian city of Iaşi, graduating with a thesis on the improviser Charlie Parker. Initially she taught in Suceava and Bucharest singing, piano and improvisation. Supported by Klaus Ignatzek and Jean -Louis Rassinfosse (CD Indian Princess ) they became well known in Central Europe. She moved to Brussels, where she taught, but also taught at conservatories in Germany, the UK and Moldova. She has performed with musicians such as Peter Herbolzheimer, Larry Coryell, Norma Winstone, Billy Hart, Archie Shepp, Claudio Roditi, Philip Catherine, Mark Levine, Tomasz Stanko Riccardo Del Fra, or, toured in Germany, with the trio of Stephen King. In her own band played their two sons. In 2008 she was involved in the Romanian Hit Brasil by Tom Boxer.

Parghel published a total of 15 albums. The singer has been repeatedly compared with the Peruvian Yma Sumac and Ella Fitzgerald. After she had a few years earlier defeated breast cancer, ovarian cancer was found with her. After futile attempts at treatment in a Bucharest hospital and treatment with alternative medicine failed in a Belgrade hospital. Anca Parghel succumbed to her battle with cancer on 5 December 2008 in the district hospital of Timişoara.