Vlado Kalember

{{Short description|Croatian pop singer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Vlado Kalember | image = Vlado Kalember, Nis, pocetak 80-ih.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = Kalember performing live in Niš, 1980s | birth_name = Vladimir Kalember | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1953|4|26}} | birth_place = Strumica, PR Macedonia, FPR Yugoslavia | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = Vlado | occupation = Singer | years_active = 1970s–present | spouse = Ana Rucner (m. 2006 - div. 2014) | children = 1 | partner = | website = }}

'''Vladimir''' "'''Vlado'''" '''Kalember''' (born 26 April 1953) is a Croatian pop singer, famous for his recognisable, husky voice.

In the 1970s, he was the vocalist of the popular pop band, Srebrna Krila.<ref>{{cite news |title=Formula uspeha |url=http://www.novosti.rs/code/navigate.php?Id=16&status=jedna&datum=2007-10-04&feljton=5157 |work=Večernje novosti |date=28 March 2006 |access-date=12 October 2009 }}</ref> After leaving the band, he continued with a solo career. In 1984, together with Izolda Barudžija, he represented Yugoslavia at the Eurovision Song Contest.<ref>{{cite book |title=A song for Europe: popular music and politics in the Eurovision song contest |last=Raykoff |first=Ivan |author2=Robert Deam Tobin |year=2007 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing |isbn=978-0-7546-5879-5 |page=89 }}</ref> He was later a member of 4 Asa.<ref name=glasjavnosti20060305>{{cite news |title=Smetaće mi anonimnost i zaborav |url=http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.rs/arhiva/2006/03/05/srpski/R06030401.shtml |work=Glas javnosti |date=5 March 2006 |access-date=12 October 2009 |archive-date=17 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317081102/http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.rs/arhiva/2006/03/05/srpski/R06030401.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He was married to a young cello instrumentalist, Ana Rucner, and has a child with her.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sandi i Marija uz svjetlost svijeća |url=http://www.javno.com/pr.php?id=190445 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126231535/http://www.javno.com/pr.php?id=190445 |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 January 2013 |work=Javno |date=9 October 2008 |access-date=12 October 2009 }}</ref> His famous songs are "Vino na usnama",<ref>{{cite news |title=Vlado Kalember: Slovenke mi se zahvaljivale |url=http://www.javno.com/pr.php?id=244874 |work=Javno |date=22 March 2009 |access-date=12 October 2009 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> "Ja nisam kockar",<ref name=glasjavnosti20060305/> "Ana",<ref>{{cite news |title=Boris Novković: Ponovno sam sreo Đorđa |url=http://www.javno.com/pr.php?id=121791 |work=Javno |date=7 February 2008 |access-date=12 October 2009 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> "Lili", "Otkad si otišla", "Ja odavde, ona s juga", "Odoh u mornare", "Doris" and many other.

== See also == * Music of Croatia * Srebrna Krila

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{{s-start}} {{succession box | before = Daniel | title = Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest | years = 1984 | after = Doris Dragović }} {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kalember, Vlado}} Category:1953 births Category:People from Strumica Category:Living people Category:20th-century Croatian male singers Category:Croatian pop singers Category:Croatian people of Macedonian descent Category:Yugoslav musicians Category:Eurovision Song Contest entrants