VIDEO: Goodbye Dino, Goodbye Croatian Legend

I do not look at the past anymore, or the future. I live for today, were the words that Dino Dvornik said during his last interview.

“I was young, I really loved music and had a lot of ambition. There was drugs, we smoked grass… When I created music I smoked grass, it opens your feelings a bit. Maybe I would have made a bit more without that, but all of us were on opiates and we went wild. I would enter the studio and I would not exit for a month until I made something. I worked in that elation, but it cost me my health. I can not say: “Children, take drugs and make good music”. A man destructs needlessly because of that, but I did it all for the music, and not because I wanted to be on drugs. Then I thought that all musicians in the world were on drugs.  I do not look at the past anymore, or the future. I live for today, were the words that Dino Dvornik said during his last interview. The interview took place a month ago for the magazine Arena.

Dino started with his music and acting career aged only 17

The legendary singer was born on August 20, 1964 in Split, where he grew up. In his young youth he showed his talent for singing and acting. In his starry beginnings, he cacted in the series “Nase Malo Misto” (Our Little Town), and after that in a number of children’s films and series. He attended music school for a while and then quit, which is not surprising considering the life philosophy that he often showed.

The entered the music business aged only 17 with his older brother Dejan, with who he founded the band “Kineski Zid” (Great Wall of China). His music career with that band started improving after they released the first funky record in Croatian discography in 1988. They won their first awards at the Zagreb Fest for the best debut band with the song “Tebi Pripadam” (I Belong to You). The young, rebellious and talented singer reached the height of his career at the start of the nineties, and everybody knows the words to his song Africa. It was this song that won him a Porin award in 1996, and a year later he won another one for the album “Enffant Terrible”. He continues his success in 1998 when he won another Porin for the compilation album “Vidi Ove Pjesme” (See This Song).

Height of his fame

However, parallel to his fast rise on the Croatian music scene is his drug problem.

His only love, his wife Danijela who he married in 1989 has been of great support to him. He was soon blessed with a daughter, Ella, for who he wrote a song with the same name. The song soon became another one of his hits. After his battle with drug addiction for many years, Dino managed to cure his addiction.

He released eight albums in his rich musical career, and he announced a return to the music scene with the album “Pandorina Kutija” (Pandora’s Box), which unfortunately, he did not manage to finish. The personality and works of this music legend will live forever, and he will forever remain an idol for many young musicians.

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