Anca Pop

After her collaboration with Bregović, she signed a record deal with Roton Music. She also appeared on the cover of Playboy for the July–August issue.

• Name — Anca Pop • Birth Name — Anca Pop • Born — 22 October 1984 • Birthplace — Moldova Nouă, Caraș-Severin County, Romania • Died — 16 December 2018 • Place of death — Svinița, Mehedinți County, Romania • Occupation — * Singer • songwriter • producer • Instrument — * Mandolin • guitar • Years Active — 2008–2018 • Label — * Roton Music • Because Music • Edel Italy • Warner Music Group • Website — ancapop.com

Pop was born on October 22, 1984, in Moldova Nouă, Romania. When she was three years old, her parents fled the Socialist Republic of Romania to Yugoslavia. Once they arrived they were taken to a refugee camp near Belgrade; they stayed there 7 months before going to a political asylum in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. She started being passionated by music, and she started taking mandolin and singing lessons when she was 7 years old. Eventually her parents came back in Romania as soon as the communism ended.

Her debut single, "Free Love", was released on April 28, 2015, with an accompanying music video on the same day. A month later, another version of the video was released for Playboy magazine. "Free Love" was also voted by 100,000 people as the best pop song of July during a poll for OurStage. "Super Cool" was released on March 24, 2016, as the second single from her upcoming debut studio album. In May of the same year she was invited along with Emil Rengle to the Cannes Film Festival by Warner Music Group for a possible collaboration with them. The third single, "Ring Around", was released on January 25, 2017, with an accompanying music video on the same day. The fourth single, "Loco Poco", was released in 38 countries on May 26, 2017, by Roton and Edel Italy.

She lived in an apartment in Bucharest. She was passionated by spirituality and she searched for inspiration in Peru, India and Thailand. She came out as bisexual on a TV show named Totul pentru dragoste, and she had an open relationship with a girl named Fraga.

She died on 16 December 2018. She was 34 at the time of her death. The singer died after she lost control of her car for unknown reasons and the car plunged into the Danube river, near the commune Svinița, while she was heading to her parents' home. Three divers, helped by military of the emergency authorities, were involved in the recovery of the body. The funeral took place on December 20, 2018, on the Danube's shore, in the commune of Sviniţa, being the artist's wish to be buried as close to the place of death.

• Title — Album details • Anca Pop — * Released: July 12, 2017 * Label: Roton, Aqua Production * Format: CD, Digital download

• Title — Year — Album • "Free Love" — 2015 — Anca Pop • "Super Cool" — 2016 • "Ring Around" — 2017 • "Loco Poco" • "Ederlezi" (featuring Goran Bregović)

• Title — Year — Album • "Love Is" (FUMI★YEAH! featuring Anca Pop) — 2017 — Anca Pop

Anca Pop is recorded with the occupation songwriter. Recorded with the occupation musician. Recorded with the occupation singer. Classed in the genre pop music. Recorded as singer, songwriter and musician.