Tereza Ana Kesovija (born October 3, 1938) is an internationally acclaimed Croatian singer, and previously an important artist of the former Yugoslavia. She also had a successful career in France.
Kesovija was born in Dubrovnik where she got her early music education. She won a federal young Musicians Competition in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Afterwards, she graduated from the flute program at the Academy of Music in Zagreb and as a student started app...
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Tereza Ana Kesovija (born October 3, 1938) is an internationally acclaimed Croatian singer, and previously an important artist of the former Yugoslavia. She also had a successful career in France.
Kesovija was born in Dubrovnik where she got her early music education. She won a federal young Musicians Competition in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Afterwards, she graduated from the flute program at the Academy of Music in Zagreb and as a student started appearing in non-professional music events. In 1962, shortly after the start of her professional career, she won her first international contest at Saint-Vincent, Italy. Later in her career, she won many more music festivals in Yugoslavia and had performed at other international festivals in Rio de Janeiro, Bratislava, Bern and Sopot. She represented Monaco in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966, and in 1972, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia..
Her long lasting career included a number of international tours in countries like the USSR,...
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