Born on 9 July 1989 in
Oradea, Ciente discovered his musical passion and talent at a young age, taking classical piano lessons at the age of nine. He went on to study music and graduated from the
National University of Music Bucharest. As a teenager, Ciente was the keyboard player in a local
rock band, named Chrome, and later joined fellow local project Danger with which he had concerts in Romania and abroad. Upon leaving the group, Ciente revived Raza—later known as Electric Fence—with Elena Vasile. They submitted the entries "Șun-ta" and "Emilia" for the
2012 and
2013 Selecția Națională, an event organized to select Romania's
Eurovision Song Contest entries for the respective years, finishing second on both occasions. In the subsequent years, Ciente signed a record deal with Romanian label
Global Records and established himself as a producer, notably having worked with Romanian singer
Inna on all tracks included on her sixth and seventh studio albums
Yo (2019) and
Heartbreaker (2020). He further collaborated with native artists Lariss, Shift and
Andra, as well as with
Alicia Keys and
Adam Lambert. In 2020, Ciente composed the song "Ring" featured on
Selena Gomez's
Rare. ==Production discography==