Đorđe Novković

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Đorđe Novković
Born (1943-09-02) 2 September 1943 (age 80)
Vladimirci, German-occupied Serbia
GenresPop music
Occupation(s)Songwriter
Years active1967–present

Đorđe Novković (

Yugoslavia and Croatia. Novković composed more than 2,500 songs and sold approximately 20 million records.[1] He is also known as the father of popular Croatian singer Boris Novković
.

Biography

Novković was born to a Serb father Vukašin and a Croat mother Danica[2] during World War II in the village of Vladimirci on the German-occupied territory of what only a few years earlier used to be Kingdom of Yugoslavia's Drina Banovina.

He moved to Sarajevo at an early age, so his musical talent was discovered very early, and he joined the musical school in Sarajevo at the age of 6. After graduating conducting from Musical Academy in Sarajevo, he founded a band Pro Arte during the fall of 1967.[citation needed]

In 1968, Đorđe's wife Ozana gave birth to their son Boris, and the family moved to Zagreb. Boris later became a rock singer-songwriter, but he split abruptly with his father at the age of 19. Đorđe's first hit came in 1969 with the song "Više se nećeš vratiti" (You Will Not Return) performed by Mišo Kovač and sold in half a million copies, and a later version in 1985 had similar success. In 1973, Pro Arte merged with another Sarajevo pop group Indexi, but the experiment lasted only several months. Pro Arte existed in continuity until 1980, as well as off-and-on throughout the 1980s. In 1989 Novković moved to live in Rovinj, Croatia.[citation needed]

After Pro Arte, Đorđe Novković switched to writing songs, creating material for some of the hits of the former

Žanamari Lalić and others.[citation needed
]

After the

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Since 1997, he co-owned and managed the Croatia Records label, together with Miroslav Škoro. In 2000, he moved to Zagreb again. In 2003, Novković gained a lot of popularity as judge of Story Supernova Music Talents, a reality show for aspiring musicians similar to Popstars aired on Nova TV.

Death

He died suddenly at the age of 63, from an apparent stroke, in Zagreb. In a Roman Catholic funeral ceremony he was buried in Zagreb's Mirogoj Cemetery.[4]

Notes

References

  1. ^ https://shop.crorec.hr/crorec.hr/izvodjac.php?OBJECT_ID=210852
  2. ^ "Odlazak našeg najvećeg tvorca hitova". Jutarnji list (in Croatian). 6 May 2007. Archived from the original on 2020-07-17. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Veliki povratak Đorđa Novkovića - Hitmejker koji je Severinu pretvorio u megazvijezdu". Nacional (in Croatian). No. 341. 29 May 2002. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  4. ^ "Video: Ispraćen Đorđe Novković". Dnevnik.hr. Retrieved 11 January 2014.