Zorana "Lola" Novaković ( sr-cyr, Зоранa "Лола" Новаковић); (25 April 1935 – 3 April 2016) was a Serbian singer, hugely popular during the 1960s and to a lesser degree the 1970s. She was born in
Belgrade
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,
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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. She represented
FPR Yugoslavia at the
Eurovision Song Contest in
1962
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Events January
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, where she finished fourth.
In 1962, she starred in ''
Šeki snima, pazi se'', a full-length comedy inspired by the public persona of football sensation
Dragoslav Šekularac.
She died on 3 April 2016, at age 80.
References
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1935 births
2016 deaths
Singers from Belgrade
Yugoslav women singers
Eurovision Song Contest entrants