Florian Pittis

Florian Pittis was a Romanian stage and television actor, theatre director, folk music singer and radio producer. He attended “Gheorghe Lazăr” High School in Bucharest and in 1968 he graduated from the Institute of Theatre. As a young actor he was hired at one of the best theatres in Bucharest, the Bulandra Theatre, where he worked with famous Romanian directors, such as Andrei Şerban, Liviu Ciulei, Alexandru Tocilescu. In the early '70s he studied in Paris with the well-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau.

In 1992 he, along with Mircea Baniciu, Mircea Vintila, and Vladi Cnejevici founded the band called Pasarea Colibri. I see him as a hero for the message in his songs, where he treated at the most practically and logically some of the everyday life concerns of the common man. Along with his pleasant voice the humor found in the songs make his music very catchy and lively. Along with his artistic talent, he was a great personality, a man of balance in the modern society because his spirit was forever young, and he managed to be appreciated by both the young and the old at the same time. I also admire him for his way of living, in spite of his unhealthy habits, because of his emblematic image granted by his informal wear and the long hair. He also wrote a song about the prejudice the society has about the image of a person, a thing I appreciate mostly of his work, because I hate prejudice and the differences made between people considering their image.

He was called many superlative and admiring names such as "the prophet of the blue-jeans generation" and "the most beautiful voice in the Romanian theater”. On August 5th 2007 he left this world, leaving behind the memory of a great man, of a true hero who will be carried away by the coming generations along with his name which will never be forgotten.