Ivica Percl

Ivica Percl (Zagreb , January 1, 1945 – Zagreb , March 16, 2007), was a Croatian rock singer songwriter, chanson player, composer, poet, caricaturist, painter. hanson. At the start of his musical career, 1961 - 1965, he was the guitarist of the legendary Zagreb rock band Kristali (2) and also played in various vocal-instrumental ensembles as Mladi Tehnicari, and , Roboti). In 1966 he moved into been performing as a singer-songwriter folk rock protest songs. At the end of the sixties and in the seventies, he devoted himself more and more to composing and writing chansons. He is one of the most consistent interpreters of numerous Croatian poets. Faithfully nurturing the poetic word for decades, he will be remembered for his compositions based on verses by Zvonimir Golob , Dobriša Cesarić , Antun Šoljan , Tino Ujević , Dragutin Tadijanović and Željko Sabol.. He set almost three hundred songs to music based on the verses of ninety Croatian poets and songwriters, as well as lesser known ones such as Mile Prpa . He was a member of the presidency of the Croatian Society of Composers. He led and organized the Music Tribune of that society. He was awarded the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Marko Marulić for services to culture . He also received a high award from the Defense of the City of Zagreb for his services in the Homeland War . He has been drawing since his early youth, and since 1959 he has attended various courses in ceramics, woodcarving, and painting. He has been painting in the oil on glass technique since 1970. He was given his first lessons by the naive painter Ivan Generalić, and later as an external associate of the master workshop of Krsto Hegedušić, he painted for two years under the artistic guidance of prof. Krsto Hegedušić, and then under the supervision of the painter Dušan Malešević. He exhibited at several group exhibitions. Since 1989, he has been a member of the Society of Naive Fine Artists of Croatia (DNLUH), and the Society of Croatian Caricaturists. For years, he published cartoons weekly in the Ve ernji list newspaper. He was previously married to Mirjan Percl.