Vice Vukov

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Vice Vukov (born August 3, 1936 in Šibenik , Kingdom of Yugoslavia , † September 24, 2008 in Zagreb ) was a Croatian singer and politician.

Life

Vukov studied philosophy and Italian literature in Zagreb and law , economics and social sciences in Paris. His career as a singer began in 1959 at the Opatija Festival . In the 1960s, the baritone was one of the most famous musicians in Yugoslavia . In 1963 he appeared in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Brodovi", two years later he represented his country in the same competition with the song "Čežnja".

After the Croatian Spring he was banned from public life on the pretext that he was a “Croatian nationalist”. In order to escape the wave of arrests, he did not return to Zagreb from a tour of Australia in 1972, but remained in exile in France until 1976 . After his return he was no longer allowed to perform in public until 1989; his records were removed from the market.

After Croatia's independence , Vice Vukov ran several times as a prominent representative for the Croatian Social Democratic Party . Between 2003 and 2006 he was a member of the Croatian Parliament . On November 17, 2005, he fell down a flight of stairs in the parliament building and sustained severe head injuries. Shortly after his admission to the hospital, he fell into a coma , from which he only woke up temporarily from November 2007. He died on September 24, 2008.

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SURNAME Vukov, Vice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian singer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Šibenik , Kingdom of Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 2008
Place of death Zagreb