Zdenka Vučković

Zdenka Vučković (June 20 Zagreb, 1942 - 7 March 2020) was a Croatian popular music singer with over 60 years of career. Her popularity peaked during 1960s, when she was a teenagers' pop star. She is best remembered for the songs Moja mala djevojčica ["My Little Girl"], best known by the line Tata, kupi mi auto ["Daddy, Buy Me a Car"] and Zagreb, Zagreb, which became an unofficial anthem of the Croatian capital.[1][2] Her voice is made familiar by the song Zeko i potočić ["Bunny and the Stream"]. She announced the end her musical career with the song with a symbolic name Odrasla je djevojčica mala [The Little Girl has Grown Up] performed at the 1989 Zagreb Festival.[3] She still continued singing. In particular in 1991 she performed the song "To Love Somebody" (a song by Bee Gees, in Croatian) in duet with Severina; the song was performed by Zdenka Vučković 20 years earlier and was named "The Interpretation of the Year". In 2010 she performed the song Veslaj ["Row!"] in duet with Luka Nizetic at Split Festival in 2010.[2] [4][5]

Zdenka Vučković

In 1971 she married composer Krešimir Oblak, who was her life partner and personal composer since 1950s.[4]

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  1. "UMRLA LEGENDARNA PJEVAČICA ZDENKA VUČKOVIĆ 'Bila je naša prva djevojčica koja je postala zvijezda, koja je ostvarila sjajnu karijeru'"
  2. "Umrla je Zdenka Vučković"
  3. "In memoriam: Zdenka Vučković (1942. - 2020.)"
  4. "Danas nas je napustila istinska legenda domaće glazbene scene: sjećate li se kako su zajedno pjevale Zdenka Vučković i Severina?"
  5. "The legend of the ex-Yugoslav music scene, Zdenka Vuckovic, has left"


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