Zrinko Tutić

Zrinko Tutić is a Croatian singer-songwriter, composer and producer of pop music, born on 2 March 1955 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Croatian Wikipedia calls him a Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian songwriter. His real career began in Zagreb, where he lives.

He first made his name in the pop group Selekcija, writing its music, lyrics and arrangements; at the end of 1973 Jugoton released its single "Stari kovači" with "Magle". As a composer he first appeared at the Zagreb festival in 1974, when Ksenija Erker sang his "Doći će dan", and as a singer-songwriter in 1977 with "Nepoznata, tako ću te zvati". Between 1977 and 1980 he wrote more than a hundred children's songs, crowned by the television musical Bajka o maslačku to words by Sunčana Škrinjarić, and the music for the TV series Marko Marulić.

He sang "U tebi je nešto" at Zagrebfest 1979, and "Doris" at Zagrebfest 1981 opened a run of four albums of his own: Doris (1981), Plavi leptir (1982), Pola jabuke (1984) and Zrinko Tutić (1985). The double compilation Dnevne temperature followed in 1997 and Gold Collection in 2008.

His songs went to the Eurovision Song Contest three times: "Željo moja" sung by Doris Dragović in Bergen in 1986 (11th), "Hajde da ludujemo" by Tajči in Zagreb in 1990 (7th) and "Sveta ljubav" by Maja Blagdan in Oslo in 1996 (4th). He has produced more than thirty best-selling albums, and his songs have been sung by Severina, Mišo Kovač, Željko Bebek, Ivan Mikulić, Neda Ukraden, Tereza Kesovija, Novi fosili, Massimo and Davor Radolfi.

He wrote the music for five feature films, among them Zlatne godine, Nausikaja and Garcia, and won Golden Arenas at the Pula Film Festival for Putovanje tamnom polutkom (1995) and Kad mrtvi zapjevaju (1998). Until 2000 he was the author of the musical identity of Croatian Radio and Television. Since 1992 he has run Tutico, a record label and concert agency. A founder of the Croatian music award Porin, he received the Porin for lifetime achievement in 2017, the Milivoj Körbler award in 2019 and the Nova ploča award for 2023.