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Lola Novaković

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Lola Novaković
Лола Новаковић
Lola Novaković at the Eurovision Song Contest 1962
Lola Novaković at the Eurovision Song Contest 1962
Background information
Born(1935-04-25)25 April 1935
Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died3 April 2016(2016-04-03) (aged 80)
Serbia
Occupationsinger

Zorana "Lola" Novaković (Serbian Cyrillic: 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, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. She represented FPR Yugoslavia at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1962, where she finished fourth.[1]

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.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Raykoff, Ivan; Tobin, Robert Deam (2007). A song for Europe: popular music and politics in the Eurovision song contest. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-7546-5879-5. Archived from the original on 20 February 2023. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
  2. ^ "Preminula legendarna pevačica Lola Novaković". Archived from the original on 2019-04-02. Retrieved 2016-04-03.