Bata Illic

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Bata Illic at Schlagermove 2015 in Hamburg

Bata Illic ( Serbo-Croatian  Бата ​​Илић / Bata Ilić ; born September 30, 1939 in Belgrade ) is a pop singer from Yugoslavia who lives in Germany .

Life

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The world is full of love
  DE 46 January 15, 1971 (1 week)
Girl when you're lonely
  DE 42 07/15/1972 (2 weeks)
Black Madonna
  DE 48 04/15/1974 (1 week)
Singles
The world is full of love
  DE 28 02/25/1967 (3 weeks)
Blindfolded
  DE 16 11/02/1968 (18 weeks)
Love comes in the evening
  DE 20th 05/03/1969 (9 weeks)
Close your eyes and look into my heart
  DE 23 08/02/1969 (8 weeks)
Shoes as heavy as stone
  DE 32 02/07/1970 (3 weeks)
Where there is love, there is also a way
  DE 28 07/04/1970 (6 weeks)
Candida
  DE 4th 07/11/1970 (18 weeks)
Judy, I love you
  DE 9 05/17/1971 (22 weeks)
A heart never stands still
  DE 17th 11/08/1971 (10 weeks)
Girl when you're lonely
  DE 33 02/28/1972 (4 weeks)
Michaela
  DE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 05/08/1972 (30 weeks)
  CH 3 07/04/1972 (14 weeks)
As long as I live
  DE 13 December 11, 1973 (13 weeks)
Hey little girl
  DE 40 04/02/1973 (3 weeks)
Come on the ship of my dreams
  DE 16 09/03/1973 (16 weeks)
Black Madonna
  DE 6th 11/26/1973 (25 weeks)
  AT 9 02/15/1974 (28 weeks)
  CH 3 03/06/1974 (13 weeks)
On the road of longing
  DE 32 06/10/1974 (5 weeks)
A souvenir from Marie-Antoinette
  DE 44 11/11/1974 (2 weeks)
I still have sand in my Hawaiian shoes
  DE 17th 09/08/1975 (21 weeks)
  AT 19th January 15, 1976 (4 weeks)
Girl with sad eyes
  DE 28 03/08/1976 (13 weeks)
Donna Carmela Gonzales
  DE 43 07/26/1976 (3 weeks)
I want to be the button on your blouse
  DE 36 December 13, 1976 (10 weeks)
With my balalaica I was the king of Jamaica
  DE 49 04/11/1977 (3 weeks)
Like a love song (with Eike Immel )
  DE 18th 03/14/2008 (6 weeks)

Illic was born the son of a tax clerk. After graduating from school, he studied philology , English and Italian and then worked as a teacher for two years. During this time he met the musician Andreas Triphan, who founded a band with him (mostly as "Bata Illic & Band", individual appearances as "Kommando Iffets") and supported them as a drummer and financial sponsor. They parted ways in 1961. Andreas Triphan saw the group's perspective in France . Illic did not want to follow him to Lille for several months .

After performing at the American embassy in Belgrade, Illic and his band “Grandpa's Whites” got a guest performance contract for several months for the American club “Twister” in Bad Kissingen in 1963 . Further commitments for clubs in Bad Hersfeld , Poppenburg , Fulda and West Berlin followed. In May 1966, Triphan and Illic happened to meet again at a small music festival in Bern . Although they had a few appearances together in southern Germany from June to August, both could no longer imagine working together on a joint project for longer.

In 1967 Illic recorded his first record. His first hit titles in the charts were in 1968 Blindfolded and Shoes as Heavy as a Stone . In 1972 he had his greatest success with Michaela . He appeared in numerous music programs, including in the ZDF hit parade , and presented Michaela and the subsequent single as long as I live in the 1973 film Blue Blooms the Gentian . The following years were also very successful for him as a pop singer. At the beginning of the 1980s things got a little quieter around him.

In the 1990s, Illic attempted a comeback. He still appears on radio and television today, preferably with songs by Aznavour , Celentano or Bacharach in German-language versions. But he also sings his old hits at these gigs. From January 11, 2008 to January 26, 2008 the pop singer was in the show Ich bin ein Star - Get me out of here! to be seen on RTL. He took third place on the reality show behind Michaela Schaffrath and the winner Ross Antony .

On February 7, 2008, the retro POP single Tschewaptschitschi was released as a download track. The first single from an album recorded in 2008 is the duet Wie ein Liebeslied , which Bata Illic recorded together with his jungle colleague Eike Immel . Bata Illic thus reached the top 20 of the German single charts, for the first time in 33 years. The maxi CD and a more recent album called Herzgeschichten (Heart Stories ), not belonging to the single , were released on February 29, 2008, the official new album - like the single also titled Like a Love Song - followed on March 7, 2008.

Discography

Albums

  • The world is full of love (1968)
  • Voice of Longing (1971)
  • Girl When You're Lonely (1972)
  • As Long As I Live (1973)
  • Black Madonna (1974)
  • Slavic Dreams (1975)
  • I still have sand in my Hawaiian shoes (1975)
  • With the eyes of love (1976)
  • Bata Illic sings great global hits (1977)
  • Bata Illic (1977)
  • Just A Little Tenderness (1987)
  • Happy Hours (1988)
  • A Little Love (1990)
  • Heart Stories (2008)
  • Like a Love Song (2008, official new album)
  • I want to be the button on your blouse - The best of the best (2008, Best Of)
  • Where the sun never sets (2011)

Singles

  • Blindfolded (1968)
  • Love Comes in the Evening (1969)
  • Close your eyes and look into my heart (1969)
  • Shoes as Heavy as Stone (1969)
  • Where there's love there's a way (1970)
  • Candida (1970)
  • Judy, I love you (1971)
  • A Heart Never Stops (1971)
  • Girl When You're Lonely (1972)
  • Michaela (1972)
  • As long as i live (1972)
  • Hey little girl (1973)
  • I've never been in love like this (1973)
  • Black Madonna (1973)
  • Come on the ship of my dreams (1973)
  • On the Road of Longing (1974)
  • A souvenir from Marie-Antoinette (1974)
  • You are one of many (1975)
  • I still have sand in my Hawaiian shoes (1975)
  • Girl with Sad Eyes (1976)
  • Donna Carmela Gonzales (1976)
  • I want to be the button on your blouse (1976)
  • With my balalaica I was the king of Jamaica (1977)
  • Hey girl, blonde girl (1977)
  • Cupid, Cupid, Cupid (1978)
  • Oh Cleopatra (1979)
  • Adventure with Miss Obermeier (1980)
  • Malinconia (1982)
  • Where white roses bloom (1992)
  • Please, get in touch (1997)
  • Hit Mix '98 (1998)
  • The tax office is broke (2000)
  • Not Forever (But Forever) (2002)
  • Bella Isola (2003)
  • When you laugh (2003)
  • After every goodbye (2004)
  • What's in the Heart (2004)
  • Sometimes (... I would like to be little again) (2005)
  • I still have sand in my Hawaiian shoes (2006)
  • Like a Love Song (2007)
  • You are my most beautiful feeling (2007)
  • Tschewaptschitschi (2008, download single)
  • La Belle Epoque (2008, promo single)
  • Like a love song (duet with Eike Immel) (2008, Maxi-CD)
  • Summer and you (2008, promo single)
  • Isola bella (2011)
  • Even a Clown Has His Tears (2013)
  • There was an angel (2016)

Awards

Private

He has been married to Olga Illic since 1963. He lived with her first in Frankfurt am Main and since 1978 in Munich .

Web links

Commons : Bata Illic  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH
  2. ↑ a b Patrick Kiefer: Bata Illic: “At the age of 70 a lot is put into perspective”. In: welt.de . July 9, 2015, accessed March 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Illic, Bata
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ilić, Bata (Serbian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Yugoslavian pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade