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Mišo Kovač
12+ albums
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Mate "Mišo" Kovač (pronounced [mǎːte mîʃo kôʋatʃ]; born 16 July 1941) is a Croatian recording artist. He is the best selling artist from Croatia, with well over 20 million records, cassettes and compact discs sold to date, and is often regarded as one of the most popular musical performers from Southeastern Europe. Kovač was born in Šibenik during the Italian occupation of Dalmatia in the World War II as the second child of Zrinka and Jakov Kovač. His mother was originally from the island of Vrgada, and his father was from the Škopinac district of Šibenik. Mišo grew up in a family with his brother Ratko and sister Blanka. As a child, he grew up in a street in Šibenik's Varoš, where musicians Vice Vukov and Arsen Dedić lived at the same time. As a young man, he practiced football as a goalkeeper and started playing for the junior team of HNK Šibenik, dreaming of a professional football career in Hajduk Split, which he was also a fan of, often traveling by boat from Šibenik to Split for matches. He was receiving defeats of his team very emotionally. Hearing the performances of the Šibenik-based singer Ljubo Lučev, 16-year-old Kovač is slowly giving up football and dedicating himself to music. He listened to popular Italian performers such as Luciano Tajoli, Tony Dellag and Adriano Celentano and the American Johnnie Ray. He finished industrial high school, learning the trade of upholsterer. In 1961, at the Prvi glas Šibenika (First Voice of Šibenik) competition, he shared the
