# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/grigoras-dinicu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:47:16.400Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/grigoras-dinicu"
name: "Grigoraș Dinicu"
slug: "grigoras-dinicu"
description: "Grigoraș Ionică Dinicu was a Romanian violin virtuoso and composer of Roma ethnicity. He is most famous for his often-played virtuoso violin showpiece \"Hora staccato\" (1906) and for making popular the tune Ciocârlia, composed by his grandfather Angheluș Dinicu for nai. It is rumored that Jascha Heifetz once said that Grigoraș Dinicu was the greatest violinist he had ever heard. In the 1930s he was involved in the political movement of the Romanian Roma and was made honorary president of the \"General Union of the Romanian Roma\". Other well known compositions are: Hora mărțișorului, Ceasornicul and Căruța poștei."
tagline: "Romanian Roma composer and violinist (1889-1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Grigoras_Dinicu_02.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1889-04-03"
deathDate: "1949-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.84
  momentum:             2.830188679245283
  historical:           13.61944
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0996769/"
    handle:    "nm0996769"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump