[Upd: replaces {“Romanian Ambassador Filip Teodorescu”} with {Consultant Minister Alexandru Muresan, deputy head of the Embassy of Romania in Chisinau”}. Friends, relatives, officials and admirers of the late Ion and Doina Aldea-Teodorovici have participated today in a requiem held at the Central Cemetery in Chisinau, where the two artists were buried. On the night of October 30, it was 17 years of the tragic accident in which the two were killed, Info-Prim Neo reports. Doina's mother Eugenia Marin said with tears in her eyes that she cries for her children every day. “I cannot remember them because I did not forget them,” said singer Stefan Petrache. “They formed part of my life and my soul. The song is the cradle of Ion and Doina Aldea-Teodorovici. God needs beautiful people,” Petrache said. Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca said that Ion and Doina sang songs about the pain and needs of our people. “Their music is a blessing. All the generations should know their songs as they express the truth and freedom,” the mayor said. Attending the ceremony, Consultant Minister Alexandru Muresan, deputy head of the Embassy of Romania in Chisinau, said that the two artists represent the pillars that created a bridge and consolidated the Romanian spirituality. “They lived in an important period that we, as a people, must also go through. They are our heroes. We should think more about the spiritual values,” said Minister of Culture Boris Focsa. “For the Romanians from the two banks of the Prut River, they are real heroes who sang that there is only one people, not two, the Romanian people,” said a Romanian student, Gheorghe Simion. The requiem continued at Mihai Eminescu's bust in the central park, where young people from a number of high schools and universities told the passersby about Ion and Doina Aldea-Teodorovici. Ion and Doina Aldea-Teodorovici lost their lives in a road accident when returning to Chisinau from Bucharest. On the night of October 30, 1992, the car on which they were traveling crashed into a tree near Cosereni settlement, which is located 49 kilometers from Romania's capital.