Vama Veche was a Romanian soft rock band, founded in 1996, which was also the year of in which they recorded the song "Nu am chef azi" which became a hit in 1997 in Romania. Their first concert took place in 1996 at Lăptaria lui Enache. On March 1 1998 the band played as an opening act for the Robert Plant and Jimmy Page concert at Sala Palatului, Bucharest, in front of 10,000 people. The first album they released, in 1998, was called Nu am chef azi.