Zoltan is a formerly unidentified eurodisco song by French musicians Zoltan Lantos, Vincent Barrès and Marc Beacco in 2007. It was originally created for the French bank Crédit Agricole. The song was commonly believed to be inspired by the Dschinghis Khan song Moskau.
Search History
2019
On May 29th, 2019, WatZatSong user Mosiqa posted the song on the site in hopes of identification. They didn’t provide any information about where they got the song, and said they didn’t have a longer snippet.
Users immediately pointed out that the song seemed heavily inspired by Moskau by Dschinghis Khan, theorizing it could be a parody. User Mortena noted that the singer likely wasn’t a native Hungarian, due to his accent. Dschinghis Khan was contacted, and they didn’t know the song, but they agreed the song sounded similar.
2023-Early 20124
On, January 7th, 2023, the OP came back and said they didn’t remember where they got the song from.
The clip’s filename was 300x200_ca_ja_005.mp3. Discord user Zoltan Beats An Orca said that 300x200 was the resolution usually used in advertisements, but they couldn’t find anything else about the song.
On January 1st, 2024, a subreddit for the song, r/unknownsongZoltan, was made in order to create a larger search team. Not too long after, the song got a channel in the FMM Discord Server.
March-April 2024
On March 28th, 2024, the full original song was found by Reddit user u/Prudent-Feature-2412 in a Dailymotion video posted on August 29th, 2008, by user Stanley Kubik as a performance. The performers have yet to be identified, although some of them have been.
Another video was found shortly thereafter as an advertisement for the French bank Crédit Agricole, uploaded a year before the full video, which was found to be from the bank’s website as part of an internet campaign. This is supposedly where Mosiqa had recorded the snippet from. However, upon contacting Crédit Agricole, they denied producing the song.
On April 14th, 2024, Discord user Nel contacted the video’s director, Samuel Dormond. He confirmed that the song was created specifically for the ad and it was named after Sound engineer Zoltan Lantos.
A day later, on April 15th, 2024, Nel contacted Zoltan Lantos, and he confirmed that he wrote the song, Vincent Barrès composed and recorded the song, and Marc Beacco sang the lead vocals. The additional vocalists are still unknown.
Official lyrics
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