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Vajta (actually silk MeMIC, born March 8, 1950 in Travnik, Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina ) is a musician living in Germany, Yugoslavian origin, for Yugoslavia took part in 1981 in the Euro Vision Song Contest.

Life

He first worked as a tailor in a factory Borac in Travnik, and sang after work in a band called " Veseli akordi " ( "Merry chords " ), which occurred on a small scale and songs by, among others, The Troggs, The Monkees and The Spencer Davis Group nachspielte. He immigrated to Austria from where two of his uncles already lived, and trained as a molder at the valve manufacturer Schmiedl in Hall in Tirol. After his return to Travnik he put together with a friend her costume jewelry.

In 1975 he went to Sarajevo and was, as the successor of Fadil Toskić († 2006), singer of the band founded in 1974, Teska industrija ( " heavy industry "). Although he only stayed until 1976 a member of this band, this had. However, with him and with his successor Goran Kovačević, who was from 1976 to 1978 singer of the band, their greatest successes

Vajta launched a solo career and was a Yugoslav participants at the Euro Vision Song Contest 1981; with the composed by Ranko Boban song Leila he only reached the 15th place. In addition to the Serbo-Croatian original version also has a plate recording was produced with English text. Vajta took in 1982, 1983 and 1987 participated in the Yugoslav preliminary rounds for Euro Vision Song Contest, but without winning again.

In the 1980s Vajta appeared as an actor on television shows for children. Since 1994 he lives in Hamburg. In recent years, he appeared in the successor states of Yugoslavia as well as in Denmark. At the International Festival on Korčula he won in 2001 with the song Vratit cu se plavom nebu juga mog the first Audience Award and in 2002 with Ako me zaborave the first prize of the jury. He says that he has received a total of about 150 songs and sold four million records. In 2007 he participated in revival performances and a CD recording of Industry of Teska.

Trivia

The nickname or stage name Vajta goes to the figure of "Captain Quincy Wyatt " back to Gary Cooper in the film Distant Drums (1951, German release title: The Devil's Brigade, Yugoslav rental Title: Doživljaji kapetana Vajta, literally translated: " The adventures of Captain Wyatt " ) played.