Florin Chilian (born 14 December 1968) is a Romanian musician, composer, guitarist vocalist and journalist. As a young boy he practiced cycling for six years. He won several times the title of national champion (years 1981-1985) in cycling junior competitions categories road bicycle racing, track cycling individual and team pursuits. He has a high school diploma, but no studies in music at all, considering himself a "self-made man" in matters related to music. Musical career The man who guided his very first steps in music was Marcel Condruz, who was his childhood friend. He starts playing music during high school. His first solo show on a stage was in 1986, at Universitas Club. Mircea Vintilă lends him his own guitar for the concert. In 2001, at the age of 33, with the price of personal financial sacrifices, he managed to release his first album, Iubi - Interface to Reality. In 2004 Florin Chilian becomes the first artist who reinterpreted the Ten Commandments through music. Nobody else ever did that. Florin Chilian is known to be one of the Romanian artists who is actively and consistently involved in numerous charity acts, much of the money he earned in concerts being donated to those in need.