Šućro "Šeki" Turković ( sr-cyr, Шућро "Шеки" Турковић; born 27 November 1953) is a Serbian

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singer, popular in the

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. He was born in

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in southwestern Serbia.Vesna Danilović
"Šeki Turković – Nisam laktaroš!"
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in 1973, but later on in 1976, Šeki and his cousin Munid moved to Belgrade. A short time after Šeki moved to Belgrade, he and his cousin went around to bars and clubs and started to sing. The manager at one of the clubs heard him sing and asked him "Where do you sing?" "Nowhere!" replied Šeki. The manager soon after offered Šeki an audition and a chance to sing, which turned out to be his life career. Šeki served his mandatory

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military service, first in

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, then later on in Podravska

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. Turković is a

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singer in

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, but he is very popular in

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and in

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. He has been singing since the 1980s. His hits include: "Spomenar", "Poslednji boem", "Da su meni 22" and many more, and he has done many songs with accordionist Buca Jovanović. Šeki currently lives in the United States. Šeki has a daughter, Alma, and grandson Admin.

Discography

* Dok sam te voleo (1982) * Ostanimo prijatelji (1983) * Neobična (1985) * Žao mi je (1986) * Srećo moja još neprežaljena (1987) * Ko je krivac (1988) * Čovek sa srca dva (1989) * Stani čoveče stani (1990) * Ljubav je tvoje ime (1991) * Nisam ti rekao sve (1992) * U vinu je istina (1993) * Evo me ljudi (1994) * Dolaze bolja vremena (1995) * Ja sam momak za devojke sve (1996) * Proklela me proklela (1997) * Taj sam brate (1998) * Čovek dobre duše (1999) * Molićeš za oproštaj (2000) * Ništa nije slučajno (2001) * Uspori živote (2002) * Živim (2004) * Geni (2005) * Unikat (2006) * Neka ti nebo sudi (2008) * Muške suze (2013)

References

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