Ivo Robić
Ivo Robić (born 28 January 1923 in Garešnica in Bjelovar, Yugoslavia, now Croatia; † March 9, 2000 in Rijeka ) was a Yugoslav and Croatian pop singer.
Musical career
Robić began his musical career with studies at the Zagreb Conservatory with the goal of becoming a music teacher. During his studies he learned the piano, saxophone, clarinet, flute and bass fiddle to play. In addition to his studies, he worked as a singer in the dance orchestra of Radio Zagreb. He was discovered by the Yugoslav record company Jugoton, with Robić produced a first record in 1948. Until 1977, published by Jugoton by Ivo Robić about 100 records, which made him one of the most successful Yugoslav disk stars. From 1977 he also took up records for the Czechoslovak record company Supraphon. At the beginning of the 1950s Robić began performing abroad, as in Czechoslovakia, Austria and the GDR.
Making his first appearance in the Federal Republic had Robić 1955 in Hof (Saale). But it took until 1958 before it came to a recording contract in Germany. The initiative came from Robić woman sent the demo tapes to various German record companies. The only Polydor showed interest and invited Robić to a screen test. After two recorded in January 1959 with cover versions of songs were rejected by the Chessmen and Ray Peterson, the first Robić single with the titles morning and Ay, ayay Paloma was launched in May 1959. Producer Bert Kaempfert was, the Robić also supervised in the following years. The title of the morning had Peter MOESSER composed, he also worked for some time with Robić together. Morning became a worldwide success. Although he reached in Germany only second place in the listing of the journal published by the music market, but was awarded a platinum record and was awarded the Bronze Lion from Radio Luxembourg. Also, the American music magazine Billboard took the original German title, which had been published by the Laurie label, on its Hot 100. Morning held up for 14 weeks there and rose to number 13. Polydor took the title in the UK to market, where it reached number 23 in the charts. With the second plate with Ivo Robić Polydor proceeded from the beginning twofold. The German title Muli song was published simultaneously in Germany and the U.S., in the states but in the English version of The Happy Muleteer. This version also came back into the Hot 100 Billboard or five weeks there was noted and rose to 58th place. This made it Robić in the U.S. entertainment, so he was invited to the Ed Sullivan Show and the Dick Clark Show, among others in the Perry Como Show.
While the Muli- song in Germany make it to the seventh, scored Robić in 1961 with the cover version of the U.S. title Save the Last Dance for Me by the Drifters a number-one success. The German version of 17 captures the life only to has been recorded by music Markt 32 weeks and was in March 1961 at two weekly analyzes on the first place. Radio Luxembourg time awarded him the Silver Lion. Then Ivo Robić had reached the peak of his career in Germany. Only with the published in 1962, entitled A life, a cover of Ray Charles 's success I Can not Stop Loving You, he came again into the top 10 (8th place ). After him the music market until 1967, listed three times only to lower ranks. In 1968, Bert Kaempfert pulled back as a producer to concentrate on its own career, and Robić recordings was now maintained by Kai Warner. After Robić 1971 again listed with the title I 'll show you the sunshine of the music market ( 45th ), sparked the 1973 Polydor recording contract on. Robić settled permanently in Croatia, where he owned with his wife Marta a house in the small fishing village of Ičiči on the Croatian Riviera. In Jugoton he continued to publish more plates for the Yugoslav market. The last years until his death he was honorary chairman of the Croatian Musicians Union. He died in 2000, 77 -year-old from the effects of a gall bladder operation in a hospital in Rijeka. His final resting place he found at the Zagreb Mirogoj cemetery.