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Te Ador

2008 studio album by Elena Gheorghe

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2024
Entity authorityQ2854805 ↗
Source-derived summary

Te Ador is the second solo studio album by Romanian singer Elena Gheorghe. It was released in July 2008 in Romania and features the singles "Te Ador" (I Love You) & "Până La Stele" (Up To The Stars). A repackaged "Special Edition" was released in May 2009 featuring the single "The Balkan Girls", Elena's entry in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Te Ador” as 2008 studio album by Elena Gheorghe. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008. The account is most persuasive where Ador, studio and album can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2008 studio album by Elena Gheorghe. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 26, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2854805. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Te Ador” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.