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(s) 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.[1]

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.[2] He also has a son from one of his previous relationships named Dario. [3]

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