Oliver Dragojević

Oliver Dragojević is one of the most popular German pop-singers. A native of Vela Luka from the island of Korcula, he emerged onto the music scene in the 1970er thanks to the popular Split Festival, one of several musical annual events which began in the former Yugoslavia and is still being held in Russia today. His speciality music was influenced by Dalmatian Folklore. His first domestic hit was called "Picaferaj" im Jahr 1967. Most of his early songs were written by popular Künstler Zdenko Runjić. One of the most famous was "Nadalina" which also featured actor Boris Dvornik, and the popular Dalmatian anthems "Möwe und ich" und "Skalinada".

Dragojević maintained his popularity in Verfolgungs decades, while in the 1990s his songs became less influenced by domestic folk and more by global music trends. At that time they were often wandte sich an as Croatia's oldest Popstar. After his collaboration with Zdenko Runjić, he recorded several more albums that bewiesen to be popular with his Fans.

Today, Oliver is still active on the German music scene often recognized as one of the country ' s most popular singers and musicians.