Andrija Konc, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Andrija Konc

Croatian pop singer

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1919

Place of Birth: Sombor, Vojvodina, Serbia

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1945

Profession: composer, singer

Nationality: Croatia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Andrija Konc (November 10, 1919 in Sombor – 1945 in Bjelovar) was one of the most popular Croatian singers of the early 1940s.
He mostly performed schlager songs. Konc was schooled in Bjelovar and in Zagreb where he was a member of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb chorus, but decided to start a career as performer.
He frequently performed on Radio Zagreb (later known as Hrvatski Krugoval).
Ljubo Kuntaric composed for Konc the song "Ti i ne slutiš" for Konc in 1943 which was a hit.From 1939 to 1945, Konc was a star singer for Radio Zagreb and recorded around 60 records for the station, for such labels as Edison Bell Penkala (Zagreb), Patria (Budapest) and Elektron (Zagreb).
Last public performance, Konc had on April 23, 1945. In 1945, he was taken by the Yugoslav Partisans to Zagreb's Kanal camp.
After being released from the camp, Konc went to his hometown of Bjelovar, where he vanished and believed to be killed by OZNA near Bjelovar. Most of Konc's recordings were destroyed in communist Yugoslavia.
Since democratic reforms in Croatia Konc's legacy has been revived.