Zdenka Vučković (

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, 20 June 1942 - 7 March 2020) was a

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n popular music singer with a career spanning 60 years. Her popularity peaked during the 1960s, when she was a teen

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. She is best remembered for the songs ''Moja mala djevojčica'' My Little Girl" best known by the line ''Tata, kupi mi auto'' Daddy, Buy Me a Car" and ''Zagreb, Zagreb'', which became an unofficial anthem of the Croatian capital."Umrla je Zdenka Vučković"
/ref> Her voice is made familiar by the song ' Bunny and the Stream" She announced the end of her career with the song ''Odrasla je djevojčica mala'' The Little Girl has Grown Up"performed at the 1989 . However, in 1991, she performed the song " To Love Somebody" (a song by the

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in Croatian) in a duet with Severina. In 2010, she performed the song "Veslaj" Row!"with

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at the

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. "Danas nas je napustila istinska legenda domaće glazbene scene: sjećate li se kako su zajedno pjevale Zdenka Vučković i Severina?"
/ref>"The legend of the ex-Yugoslav music scene, Zdenka Vučković, has left us"
/ref> In 1971, she married composer .

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* * 1942 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Croatian women singers {{croatia-musician-stub