Petar Grašo (born 19 March 1976) is a Croatian pop singer and songwriter. Born in
Split
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Arts, entertain ...
to basketball player Zoran Grašo, he rose to prominence when
Oliver Dragojević performed one of his first songs "Boginja" on the
Dora contest in 1995.
Since then, he has collaborated greatly with Dragojević, and has also worked with
Doris Dragović,
,
,
Goran Bregović
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,
and
Lepa Brena
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Lepa Brena grew up in Brčko, Bosni ...
.
In 1996, he won the
Zadarfest
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music festival in
Zadar
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with his song "Trebam nekoga", which promulgated him to wide fame.
He placed second in
Dora 1997, Croatia's qualifying competition for
Eurovision Song Contest 1997
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.
Today, he is one of the most popular male pop singers in
Croatia
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, and is also well known in
Serbia
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,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Slovenia
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, and
North Macedonia
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.
Grašo co-wrote the lyrics to the song "Metak sa posvetom" with
Antonija Šola for Lepa Brena's 2011 album ''
Začarani krug'', and composed the music himself.
His songs "Volim i postojim" (1997) and "Ko nam brani?" (1999) are credited with helping the public cope with the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
In February 2022, he married Hana Huljić.
Discography
Albums
*''Mjesec iznad oblaka'' (1997)
*''Utorak'' (1999)
*''Šporke riči'' (2003)
*''Best of Petar Grašo Uvertira 1995. – 2005.'' (2007)
Singles
References
External links
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1976 births
Living people
21st-century Croatian male singers
Croatian pop singers
Musicians from Split, Croatia
20th-century Croatian male singers