Toni Kljaković

Croatian pop/schlager singer Born 1931. in Solin - 03. November 2007. in Pula during a performance. Toni Kljaković was a Croatian popular music singer who started his musical career in Zagreb's "Varijete" at the end of the 1950s, which lasted until his death. He was a particularly popular singer in Croatia in the mid-1970s. In his long musical career, he performed at numerous festivals and in 1964, at the Split Festival, singing the song "Nima Splita do Splita" in a duet with Tereza Kesovia, he sang the anthem of that city. The festival with which Toni's name is most often associated is MIK, where he performed 23 times, performed 42 songs, won even a record seven times and left some of the most beautiful songs performed at that festival as a legacy to fans of cha-expression and Istrian coastal melos. "Kartulina z Kraljevice", "Urinjska baklja", "Ognjišće", "Nebuloza" and "Trsački šišjani" are just some of those songs. He perfected the coastal style so much that many thought he was born from the coast, but Toni was born from Solin. He is also famous for his songs "Maškare, ča mogu maškare" and the Croatian rendition of "Bčelica Maje". On November 3, 2007, Toni Kljaković collapsed during a performance in the Istrian National Theater at a concert organized in honor of music pedagogue, conductor and composer Nello Milotti in Pula and died soon after.