Marinko Rokvić

Marinko Rokvić
Birth name	Маринко Роквић
Born	January 27, 1954 Bosanski Petrovac, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
Origin	Belgrade, Serbia
Genres	Folk , Pop-folk
Occupation	Musician
Years active	1974–present
Labels	PGP, Diskos, Diskoton, Grand Production

Marinko Rokvić (Serbian Cyrillic: Маринко Роквић) is a Serbian pop-folk singer, popular in former Yugoslavia and to a lesser degree in Bulgaria. He has made over 20 albums and also won the "Zlatni Melos"-award in 1993.

Life

Rokvić was born into an ethnic Serb family in Kolunić, near Bosanski Petrovac, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia (modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina). At the age of 14 he moved to Belgrade. He studied electrical engineering.

He is married to Slavica who is a nurse, and together they have two sons. One son, Nikola Rokvić, is also a recording artist (and appeared as a contestant in season 3 of Survivor Srbija), the second is Marko Rokvić and he is singer too. He also has a son from one of his previous relationships named Dario.

Discography

• Ruža (1981)
• Jedna je želja moja (1982)
• Potraži sunce (1983)
• Kako da dođem na svadbu tvoju (1984)
• Budi dobra do povratka moja (1985)
• Čuvaj me od zaborava (1986)
• I pijan i trezan (1986)
• Bila si mi sve (1987)
• Ljubav stara srce para (1988)
• Sevdalinke (1988)
• Da me nije srela (1989)
• Posle tebe (1992)
• Nismo mi anđeli (1993)
• Zbogom ženo nevernice (1995)
• Što nisi tuđa (1996)
• Sunce i zora (1998)
• Ti za ljubav nisi rođena (2000)
• Pravo na ljubav (2001)
• Skitnica (2003)
• Gatara (2008)

External links

• "Marinko Rokvić biography" (in Serbian).