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Tereza Kesovija
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Tereza Kesovija (October 3, 1938) is a famous Croatian singer who began popular in the 1960s.
Born in Dubrovnik where she began her musical career that would soon spread to competitions. One of her earliest wins was at the young Musicians Competition in Ljubljana (Slovenia). After that, she graduated at the Academy of Music in Zagreb (in the class of Theo Tabak) and as student started appearing in non-professional stages. Her exceptional vocal talents and command of the stage soon earned her national recognition. Almost at the start of her professional career she won the contest Song for Europe at St.Vincent in Italy (in 1962).
From that moment on she won almost many music festivals in ex-Yugoslavia and had some major exits at international festivals in Mexico, Brasil, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Switzerland. For the Eurovision Song Contest, she first appeared in 1966 representing Monaco and then in 1972 representing the former Yugoslavia. Her long career includes numerous tours all over the continents (from the 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 the Olympiahall several times (the last time was in 1988).
She has also participated in charity work, some which include UNESCO's and UNICEF's gala concerts. She received a Knighthood of High Decoration of Arts and Culture in France and upon a candidacy by the International Humanist League she was bestowed the Golden Chart of Humanism.
A poll by Croatian daily newspaper Vecernji list proclaimed her a top singer of the 20th century in Croatia.
In her country she is known by her generosity, which was shown in the Croatian war for independence, where she was also a refugee; her house, with all of her things were ruined, burned and robbed during the siege of Dubrovnik.
She hosted the great compsoser Michel Legrand on two big concerts in Croatia, one in Dubrovnik as part of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival and another at Split during the Split Summer Festival in 2002.