Vladimir Savčić (born 6 June 1948 in

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- died 20 March 2009 in

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) was a Serbian singer. Widely known as Čobi (after

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), he was most prominent as the singer of a popular band Pro arte during the late 1960s and 1970s. He's had a long career in music both before and after. One of his best known solo hits was "Gdje ste noćas prijatelji" from 1999. He died on March 20, 2009, of colon cancer after struggles with obesity. Born in the family of a

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officer from

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. His family was colonized in

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after the Second World War. Young Vladimir moved around Yugoslavia a lot wherever it was that his father was stationed. The family eventually settled in

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Preminuo Vladimir Savčić Čobi
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