Miro Ungar

Miro Ungar is a Croatian pop singer, born on 2 May 1937 in Zagreb. He has been singing since 1955, at home in the festival songs of Zagreb, Split and Opatija as much as in American jazz standards.

He studied at the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art and graduated in Italian from the Faculty of Philosophy. In 1956 he co-founded the vocal group 4M with Ivica Krajač; it sang at the Varieté in Zagreb and toured Bulgaria in 1957 and Vienna in 1958, and later Austria, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, the Soviet Union and Israel.

In 1965 he moved to Paris with his then wife, Tereza Kesovija, and recorded his first solo record there under the name Tim Twinkleberry; they separated in 1973. For Jugoton he recorded "Comme d'habitude", the French song that became "My Way" in English, and with his son Alan he had a big hit with "Al' tata ti me voliš".

At the festivals he sang "Nema života bez ljubavi" in Split and "Noćas si lijepa, ljubavi" in Opatija in 1968, where it came second in the audience vote, "U jednom stisku ruke" in Zagreb in 1969, "Svatko mora imat nekog" in Opatija in 1970, "Đovanina" in Split in 1972, "Jabuke su bile zrele" in Zagreb in 1973, "Na dnu skala pjaca mala" and "Svi putovi vode u Split" in Split in 1978 and "Poleti, bijela ptico" in Zagreb in 1979. In 1971 he won first prize at Viña del Mar in Chile, against songs from 27 countries.

He worked with Ivo Robić, Josipa Lisac and Nikica Kalogjera, toured the Soviet Union many times and also became popular in East Germany. He marked 30 years on stage in the Lisinski hall in 1986, 40 years at Kerempuh in 1996 and 50 years at Tvornica kulture with the HRT Big Band in December 2006. In 2011 he danced in Ples sa zvijezdama, and from 2012 he toured with The Golden Sixties Revival and The Great American Songbook. The playlist is his album Sentimentalno putovanje.