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Edition "Music Collection" continues today. Luke is the protagonist of the story Fanica National Journal.

Undersigned IORDACHE - Luke Stephen (Fanica LUCA), honored artist of the RPR and State Prize Laureate, First Class, awarded the medal and the Order of Labor, Professor at the High School of Music in Bucharest, no. 1 class - the flute.

So Luke presents Fanica in writing entitled "Autobiography". Born in 1894 in Bucharest in a large family. His father was a fiddler, plays the flute and flute. Luke Fanica musicians started at an early age given the difficult conditions of life. The first flute he received from his father. He began to earn money by playing summer gardens: the ship, Herastraul Old Royal Villa.

At 13 years singing in a folk band with a fiddler named Lache of Gaesti. In 1910 he left the country in Zmirna, then in Istanbul. He returned to the country where he played Suzana restaurant. Then he left the army. He spent the war as a prisoner difficult moments. Between 1920-1929 he played at various restaurants in Bucharest. He began working in radio in 1929, but went to Warsaw with the orchestra "Ciolac".

In 1937 through collaboration with Grigoras Dinicu and orchestra went to Paris. Following successes was decorated by the French Ministry of National Education with the "Palmes" of the French Academy, in grade officer. He received the Diploma of Honor Gold Medal First Class.

He remained in Paris as an employee of the Chatelet theater where he enjoyed great success. Fanica Luke was very popular in Paris, being respected by the press. In 1938 he traveled to England and was employed at the Palladium Theatre. Soon he went to the International Exhibition in New York at the express request of doamei Roosevelt.

He started the war and returned to the country Fanica Luke. He has held concerts for soldiers on the front and in hospitals. In the communist era of Soviet countries played in Europe, in China and Korea. He was appointed professor at the music school no. 1 of Bucharest. Fanica Luke died at the age of 74 years in 1968. Most of life and a dedicated music, pan flute respectively.