Adolf "Dado" Topić is a Croatian rock musician. He was the lead singer and founder of

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, a 1970s

progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early-to-mid-1970s. Initially termed " progressive pop", the ...

band from the

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. From 1970 to late 1971, he was also the lead singer of the popular prog-rock band

Korni Grupa Korni Grupa ( sr-cyr, Корни Група, trans. ''Korni Group'') was a Yugoslav rock band formed in Belgrade in 1968. Launched and led by, as well as named after, the keyboardist Kornelije Kovač, the band was one of the first Yugoslav ro ...

(also known as The Kornelyans). He is a male vocalist who sang the entry from Croatia in the

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, together with the band

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Career

Topić has performed at Etnofest Neum twice: in 1997 with "Na te mislim" and in 2008 with "Nema prodaje". He collaborated (singing and producing albums) with

Smak Smak ( sr-Cyrl, Смак; trans. ''The end time'') was a Serbian and SFRY, Yugoslav band from Kragujevac. The group reached the peak of popularity in the 1970s when it was one of the most notable acts of the yu rock, former Yugoslav rock scene. T ...

Discography

*1972 -

*1975 - Time II *1976 - Život u Čizmama s visokom petom *1979 - Neosedlani *1980 - Šaputanje na jastuku *2001 - Otok u moru tišine *2004 - Apsolutno sve *2007 - Ultimate collection *2009 - Live in Kerempuh

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Biography
''(in Croatian)''
Dado Topić born on 4 September 1949
''(in Croatian)'' 1949 births Living people People from Nova Gradiška 20th-century Croatian male singers Croatian rock singers Yugoslav male singers City Records artists 21st-century Croatian male singers Eurovision Song Contest entrants {{Croatia-singer-stub