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Artist
Tereza Kesovija
12+ albums
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about
Croatian singer Tereza Kesovija was born in Dubrovnik where she got her early music education. She won a federal young Musicians Competition in Ljubljana (Slovenia). After that she graduated the flute at the Academy of Music in Zagreb (in the class of Theo Tabak) and as student started appearing in non-professional stages. Her exceptional musicality and command of the stage, as well as a beautiful voice of particular colour and timbre and a high-profile professional personality gained her international career. Almost at the start of her professional career she won the contest Song for Europe at St.Vincent in Italy (in the 1962). From that moment on she won almost every music festival in ex-Yugoslavia and had some major exits at international festivals in Mexico, Brasil, Poland, Romania, Bulgary, Turkey, Switzerland etc. At Eurovision Song Contest she first appeared in 1966 representing Monaco and in 1972 she represented ex-Yugoslavia. Her long lasting career includes numerous tours all over the continents (from ex USSR to Mexico, Egypt, Japan, USA etc) Her French career began in 1965 when she moved to live in France and in 1967 with Lara's song from the film "Dr Zhivago" she gained enormous success, and had some other major exits. She was the only Croatian singer who sang in Olympia several times (the last time was in 1988 - also recorded on a CD and videocassette). In 1988 once again "the town" was Paris "the place" was Olympia and "the singer" was Tereza, her unforgettabl
