Vice Vukov

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, as well as law and economic and social sciences in Paris. His singing career began in 1959 at the Festival of Opatija. In the 1960s, the baritone was one of the most famous musicians in Yugoslavia. In 1963 he joined the Euro Vision Song Contest with the song " Brodovi " on, two years later, he represented his country in the same competition with the song " Čežnja ".

After the Croatian Spring, he was under the pretext that he was " Croatian nationalist " banished from public life. In order to escape the wave of arrests, he returned from a tour in Australia in 1972 not to Zagreb back, but remained until the year 1976 in France in exile. After his return he was allowed to continue until 1989, no longer appear in public; his records were removed from the market.

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

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