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Tereza Kesovija (born October 3, 1938) is Croatian pop singer from Dubrovnik.

Croatian singer Tereza Kesovija was born in Dubrovnik where she got her early music education. She won a federal young Musicians Competition in Ljubljana (Slovenia). After that she graduated the flute at the Academy of Music in Zagreb (in the class of Theo Tabak) and as student started appearing in non-professional stages. Her exceptional musicality and command of the stage, as well as a beautiful voice of particular colour and timbre and a high-profile professional personality gained her international career. Almost at the start of her professional career she won the contest Song for Europe at St.Vincent in Italy (in the 1962). From that moment on she won almost every music festival in ex-Yugoslavia and had some major exits at international festivals in Rio de Janeiro, Bratislava, Bern and Sopot. At Eurovision Song Contest she first appeared in 1966 representing Monaco and in 1972 she represented ex-Yugoslavia.

Her long lasting career includes numerous tours all over the continents (from 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 Doctor Zhivago she gained enormous success, and had some other major exits. She was the only Croatian singer who sang in Olympia several times (the last time was in 1988 - also recorded on a CD and videocassette).

She also participated in charity work, which included UNESCO's gala concerts where she met some famous and significant people like Charlie Chaplin, Richard Burton and Peter Ustinov.

Received 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 singer of the 20th century in Croatia.

Her opulent discography in 9 languages (Croatian, French, Italian, Slovenian, Russian, English, Spanish, Portuguese and German) includes 12 releases for Columbia records and about 30 LP-s, 70 singles, 9 CD-s and numerous songs that didn't appear on them.

In her country she is known for her generosity, which was shown in the Croatian war for independence, helping people who lost everything, in the best way she could do - singing and at that time not thinking about her own tragedy. She was also a refugee and her house, with all of her things were ruined, burned and robbed. She escaped on the time, leaving her home, her memories and practically her life in burning flames of fire.

Today Tereza is still writing Croatian music history with a golden pen.

She hosted one of the greatest composers, singer and instrumentalist, arrangement maker and a conductor Michel Legrand on two big concerts in Croatia. The first one was held in Dubrovnik on 21st of July as a part of 53rd Dubrovnik summer Festival where she showed her endless artistry and versatility. The second concert was held on 23 of July in Split at Split Summer Festival. As the title of the concerts said "BEYOND A DREAM-CONCERT OF THE YEAR" it was sure that Tereza once again showed her musical talent that will never fade away. Tereza has been popular through the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and now maybe more than ever and it is no wonder that one critic said "Tereza is like a wine."

Some of her fans consider her one of the most beautiful female voices, standing ahead with Nana Mouskouri, Edith Piaf, Nina Simone, Milva, Amalia Rodriugez, Barbra Streisand etc.

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