Aura Urziceanu (born Bucharest, 14 December 1946), also known as Aura, is a Romanian female pop star who was famous in the 1970s and 1980s.[1] In America she had performed as Urziceanu-Rully and Aura Rully.[2]
^Denise Roman Denise Roman, Fragmented Identities: Popular Culture, Sex, and Everyday Life in Postcommunist Romania (New York: Lexington Books, 2003) 0739121189 - 2007 "In the late 1980s, the most famous Romanian vocalist-stars of muzică ușoară [light music] were Angela Similea, Corina Chiriac, and Mirabela Dauer, together with the rocker Dida Dragan and the internationally acclaimed Aura Urziceanu, a professional jazz-singer who, in the 1970s had concerted in North America accompanied by Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, Dizzie Gillespie, and Ella Fitzgerald."
^Jazz Forum: - Issues 51-56 - Page 49 1978 "With the bonus of Romanian-born singer Aura Rully (always introduced simply and with a hint of mystery by Thad Jones as "Aura"), Nice audiences, and indeed others at European festivals last summer, heard big band jazz at its invigorating ."
