Vuco

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Siniša Vuco (born April 29, 1971 in Split, Croatia), his stage name being simply Vuco, is a Croatian singer and songwriter. Common, recurring themes in his songs include: addiction, alcoholism, love, the past, and suffering. Siniša Vuco began his career as a rock musician, but his big break came in 1992 when he appeared in the Split Music Festival. He presented himself as one of the first Croatian Pop musicians to introduce the accordion (which was being regarded as rural and primitive by many advocates of Urbanism), Roma music and oriental sounds in his work, in a time when it was politically incorrect for Croatians to do so because it was somehow redolent of Turbo-folk music. Vuco, together with Zlatko Pejaković, much to the dismay of pop/folk critics and social commentators, introduced elements of turbo-folk to Croatian pop music. Although officially frowned upon, such trends apparently struck the chord among a large section of the Croatian public and Vuco acquired loyal following. In the late 1990s his songs were subjected to a semi-official ban in the Croatian state media. It had less to do with the quality or questionable origin of Vuco's music, and more with Vuco's temperament and his tendency not to mince words when talking about some of his peers and their personal habits. Some of those names apparently included some of the most powerful people in the Croatian entertainment industry. Apart from having a turbo-folk career, Siniša Vuco is also a vocalist and guitari