Foto: slagartop.wordpress.com- Red and Black, a Romanian rock and beat band, was founded in Bucharest, in 1963.
The founder, Nancy Brandes, left from Bucharest to continue to study at the Conservatory school from Iasi. In the summer of 1967. Nancy meets on the Romanian littoral the Gaudeamus orchestra, led by Bondy Stenzler, a graduater of the Muzic High School from Galati.
In the same period Nancy was a singer in a pub near Eforie Sud Casino, with a Greek band named Chromatic. After the shows he came to the Casino to sing with Bondy and the Gaudeamus band composed of Emil Trocan, Moby, Ernest and a Bulgarian singer, Krasi Borisova.
Bondy gave the wand to Nancy and Gaudeamus became Red and Black, gaining lots of fans in short time. The band had success in concerts, student meetings radio an television.
At Iasi, the members of this new formed band gains a new member, the drummer Ovidiu Lipan Tandarica. He was at that time only 13 years old.
At the first pop music festival from Romania, held in Bucharest, in Club A, the Architecture University Club, in 1969, Red and Black takes all the major awards: The Club A Trophy, first prize at the vocal singer cathegory, second prize for bas guitar.
In 1970 Liviu Tudan left the band and after his departure the troup disbanded. In 1977 two of the great formations are grouping to form a single group, Red and Black-Progressive.
In 1984 the band becames the first from Romania that gained an award to a foreign festival.
