Darko Domijan

Darko Domijan is a Croatian pop singer, born on 5 February 1952 in Karlovac, where he also grew up, and he was most popular in the 1970s and 1980s. He went to music school, where he studied the cello, and from about the age of fifteen he played rock and pop, singing songs by the American soul singers Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding. In 1972 he enrolled at the Music Academy in Zagreb, but left it to concentrate on his music career.

His first single, "Ruku mi daj", came out on the Suzy label in 1972. The breakthrough came in 1974 with the hit "Ulica jorgovana" and his first album, Stani bar na tren, and that year Jugoton also released his single "Laku noć, Katarina". From 1974 he sang at the festivals in Zagreb and Split, with songs such as "Naučit ću te mala", "Dugo će boljeti" and "Julske kiše", the last of them a Jugoton single in 1977. His second album, Pastir kraj vatre, followed in 1975.

His greatest commercial success came in the early 1980s. Put u raj (1982), with the hit "Sedam suza", a Croatian version of Goombay Dance Band's "Seven Tears", sold about 170,000 copies, and Ruže u snijegu (1983), whose title song is a version of the same band's "Sun of Jamaica", sold more than 250,000, which made him one of the most successful performers in Yugoslavia. In those years he kept appearing at festivals, with "O, Nela" at Zagrebfest 1982 and a song at the Split festival every year from 1981 to 1986. "Jelena je bila lijepa" is also counted among his best-known songs.

The albums Sunčana obala (1984), Ti si mi sudbina (1985), Ja plaćam noćas (1987) and Čuvam te anđele (1988) followed. From 1989 Darko Domijan performed only now and then and worked mainly as a lawyer, with his own law office in Zagreb. The greatest hits album Sve najbolje appeared in 2001, and in 2011 Croatia Records released Zlatna kolekcija, with 39 songs. According to the Croatian Wikipedia he is active again and preparing an album of new songs.