Zdenka Vučković ( June 20 Zagreb, 1942 - 7 March 2020) was a Croatian popular music singer with over 60 years of career. Her popularity peaked during 1960s, when she was a teenagers' pop star. She is best remembered for the songs Moja mala djevojčica ["My Little Girl"], best known by the line Tata, kupi mi auto ["Daddy, Buy Me a Car"] and Zagreb, Zagreb, which has become an unofficial anthem of the Croanian capital.[1][2] For little children her voice is familiar for the song Zeko i potočić [hr] ["Bunny and the Stream"]. She announced the end her musical career with the song with a symbolic name Odrasla je djevojčica mala [The Little Girl has Grown Up] performed at the 1989 Zagreb Festival [hr].[3] She still continued singing. In particular in 1991 she performed the song "To Love Somebody" (a song by Bee Gees, in Croatian) in duet with Severina; the song was performed by Zdenka Vučković 20 years earlier and was named "The Interpretation of the Year". In 2010 she performed the song Veslaj ["Row!"] in duet with Luka Nizetic at Split Festival in 2010.[2] [4][5]

In 1971 she married composer Krešimir Oblak [hr], who was her life partner and personal composer since 1950s.[4]

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• Zdenka Vučković at IMDb
• Zdenka Vučković discography at Discogs

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