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Victor Socaciu died on Monday at the age of 68. The artist’s title was deposited in the Palace Hall. Those who want to pay tribute to him I can go to the foyer today and tomorrow. On Wednesday, the coffin will be deposited, between 12:00 and 14:00, at the Chamber of Deputies, because the artist was also a deputy. He will be buried on Thursday.
Victor Socaciu spent uthe last seven weeks of life in the hospital. The artist had a kidney transplant in the past and had several health problems, and in April he was diagnosed with COVID.
“She was OK, she went to the hospital for a minor operation. There he contracted a nosocomial infection and the cause of death was septic shock “, said Brîndșa Simion, Victor Socaciu’s wife. “She arrived at the hospital on November 19. He had a post-COVID, had pleurisy, fluid in his lungs, and I was drained for three days. That was the intervention I was for. And from there, complications arose. He had many moments when he recovered and he told me that he wants to get to Bistrita on December 3, that people are waiting for him there “, said Brîndșa Simion.
“We assume when we have interventions, it is known that there are bacteria in hospitals. We talked right before he was hospitalized, as Brândșa said, we were talking about the video of the song he released and we were talking about some plans. Nobody thought about such a thing “, confessed Ana-Maria Socaciu, Victor Socaciu’s daughter. “She had symptoms, but not so severe, she was hospitalized and responded to treatment very well, only her lungs were affected and she ended up with this pleurisy,” said Ana-Maria Socaciu about the period when her father had COVID.
The representatives of the hospital where Victor Socaciu was hospitalized say that the artist was properly cared for, and the doctors did everything from a medical point of view.
The artist will be led on the last road on Thursday. The family will respect his last wish and see hima he buried, as he wished, at Cornu.
Who was Victor Socaciu
Victor Socaciu, musician, composer, director and producer of television shows, one of the most appreciated folk artists in Romania, was born on January 14, 1953, in Brasov. He graduated from the Mathematics-Physics High School no. 1 from Brasov, and in 1969 he took classical guitar lessons at the Popular Art School in Brasov, in the class of Prof. Teodor Martinescu. In 1978 he graduated from the Faculty of Electromechanics at the University of Brasov, with a degree in engineering. He was also a graduate of the “Ovidiu Şincai” Social-Democratic Institute – Master in “Management in Politics” (2007).
Victor Socaciu debuted on stage in 1970, with the rock band Zodiac, in which he was a guitarist and vocal soloist. His attraction to folk music began in 1972, when, according to his own confessions, he heard Mircea Florian singing on the radio. Since 1973 he has been active in the “Dacia Felix” Cenacle at the Brasov University Center, and his first folk songs (The train, The target, Between good and evil, Under the shield of dusk) enjoyed a real success in the student environment.
In 1975, Victor Socaciu made his radio debut with the song “Ghosts of Memories”, and the following year he made his TV debut with the song “Oltule”. He was a member of the Cenacle “Flame” from 1976 to 1982, then a member of the Cenacle “Celebrations of the Spark of Youth” (1983-1985).
Victor Socaciu has been a producer, over time, of genre festivals such as the National Festival – Folk Music Contest “Good Man” (since 1991), the National Festival – Contest “Love Song” in partnership with the Ministry of Culture and Cults, Romanian Television and Radio Romania Actualitati), the “Country music” Festival, of many other cultural-artistic events, as well as the initiator and producer of the “Romanian Golden Art” project.
He has been a member, since 2002, of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists and has signed over 300 songs declared at UCMR-ADA (Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists – Copyright Association).
He won numerous awards in the field of music, and in the period 2018-2020, he participated, together with Ducu Bertzi and Vasile Sheikaru, in numerous concerts in the country from the series “Folk collection”.
Victor Socaciu was a deputy in the Romanian Parliament, in the 2008-2012 legislature, being elected in the electoral constituency no. 28 Mureş, uninominal college no. 4, on the lists of the Political Alliance Social Democratic Party + Conservative Party, from the Social Democratic Party. During that term he was Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Culture, Arts, the Media of the Chamber of Deputies, a member of the Joint Standing Committee of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate for Relations with UNESCO, and a member of the Parliamentary Commission of Revolutionaries since December 1989. according to the site www.cdep.ro.
A fighter for the victory of the Romanian Revolution in December 1989 with a patent conferred by the Romanian Presidency in 1995, according to www.cdep.ro, Victor Socaciu was appointed in January 2013 as Secretary of State at the State Secretariat for Revolutionary Affairs in December 1989. During 2014-2017, Victor Socaciu was Consul General, Head of the Consulate General of Romania in Montreal, Canada.
In 2002, the Ministry of Culture awarded him the Honorary Award for his entire activity in the service of Romanian song, and in 2004 the President of Romania awarded him the Order of “Cultural Merit” in the rank of Knight, writes Agerpres.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
