In 2000 she won the gold trophy Little Bear (in Baia Mare) with One Moment In Time by Whitney Houston.Mandinga was placed 4th in the Romanian National Eurovision Selection in March 2005 with the song My Sun which was awarded a golden disc one year later.In January 2006, she opened her own dance school called Passitos and a month later ended the collaboration with Mandinga, starting her solo career with the help of musical producer Laurenţiu Duţă.[citation needed] The song was performed in the second half of the first semi-final on 12 May in Moscow, where it came ninth with 67 points.There she performed the 22nd song of the evening and Gheorghe presented a concept show about wooden fairies called Iele in Romania.[4] After Eurovision she became more famous Europe-wide and released her single "Disco Romancing" which was a smash hit in Romania as well as a top-ten in Hungary and a mild success in Czech Republic, Netherlands, Poland or Slovakia.