O-Zone (1) - Dan and Petru

In January 1998 Dan changed the music style of "Inferialis" to pop-rock but soon he realized that he needed to leave this type of music for a while, do to the fackt that rock was not a popular musick style at that time, but he always knew that he would return to the rock style at some point.

His first song "De La Mine" was released the same year in October; and was soon followed by the biggest hit of 1999 in Moldova - "Dar, Unde Esti"........ but Dan wonted to get a boy band togeather, since boy bands were very popular in that time.
So in September 1999 Dan formed the first boy band in Moldova "O-Zone", composed of two singers: Dan Balan and Petru Jelihovschi (who was the lead singer from the band "Inferialis".
The same year in autum the two guy´s, Dan and Petru, went to Romania and recorded three songs "Timpul Trece Fara Noi", "In Doi" and "M-as Trezi". The first singel they released was "Timpul trece fara noi" and in a couple of months "O-Zone" became the Nr.1 band in Moldova.

In June 2000 they released the first "O-Zone" album called "Dar, Unde Esti'" made up with 11 songs all composed and preformed by Dan. The album had a huge success. seven singels from the album became mega-hits including "Fiesta de la noche", "Crede-ma", "Te voi jubii", "Ciao bambina", "In doi'", "Dar, unde esti", "Tripul trece fara noi".

The same year in summer O-Zone started the first tour in Moldova.
In December Dan wrote a Christmas song called "Sarbatorile de iarna" for the Christmas release of the "Tanti Ludmila Show". Since then this song has becomed a national song for Christmas and New Year Festival and was played everywhere during this period in Moldova.

In spring 2001 Dan decided to go to another level and chose the Romanian market. However his partner Petru was not so interested about Dan´s big plans, he thouht of his preformance in the band more as a hobby. So Dan need to finde someone ells who was as serius about this as he was, so Dan and Petru split up but remanied friends.