Toma Zdravkovic, when his friends called him Dado, is a Serbian singer, poet and composer. He is considered the first and greatest bohemian of Serbian folk music, the Serbian Elvis Presley and the king of the cafe, which for him was the only house in which he was relaxed. He was born on November 20, 1938 in Aleksinac, and died on September 30, 1991 in Belgrade. He finished elementary school and a course for a tractor driver. At the end of primary school, he became a member of the Pecenjevac amateur theater. He did the hardest physical work, and during the break he sand. He started his singing career in Leskovac. There, hungry and cold, in 1958 he met the singer Silvana Armenulic, who took him to the Radar tavern and helped him learn folk, fun and old-town songs.
Silvana Armenulic
People started to love him very much and to listen his beautiful voice. He soon became popular, and began performing at the Tuzla Hotel Bristol. There he met the blonde Slavica with whom he fell i love. Although he found a diary in witch she wrote about her intimate life with other men, he decided to give her a second chance and took her to Novi Sad.
Novi Sad
One evening he sang in the Zrenjanin Hotel Vojvodina, where he met a black woman named Olgica, because of whom he forgot Slavica. he proposed to her very quickly, and on November 22, 1963, they had a daughter, Jacqueline.
Hotel Vojvodina Zrenjanin
