Dušan Jakšić (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Јакшић, 5 June 1927 – 17 December 2009) was a Serbian and Yugoslav singer and actor. He gained popularity in Yugoslavia with his mid-century covers of old town songs, schlagers, chansons and jazz songs. He recorded around 80 records and cassettes and performed at numerous concerts within Yugoslavia and abroad. He has been likened to Yves Montand.
Dušan Jakšić (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Јакшић, 5 June 1927 – 17 December 2009) was a Serbian and Yugoslav singer and actor. He gained popularity in Yugoslavia with his mid-century covers of old town songs, schlagers, chansons and jazz songs. He recorded around 80 records and cassettes and performed at numerous concerts within Yugoslavia and abroad. He has been likened to Yves Montand.
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Biography Jakšić was born in 1927 in Karlovac, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. At the age of 17, during the Second World War, he was drafted to the Syrmian Front. After the war, at the age of 18, he moved to Belgrade to pursue acting, where he first studied singing at the Music Academy of the University of Belgrade, and then transferred to the Theatre Academy (today's Faculty of Dramatic Arts), where he was taught by Bojan Stupica. Jakšić started his acting career in 1950 at the Yugoslav Drama Theatre. He subsequently performed at the Novi Sad Theatre, and in 1953 he landed his first role at the Belgrade Drama Theatre. In 1971 he became a member of the National Theatre in Belgrade, where he would perform until his retirement in 1990. His first screen role was in Mića Popović's 1966 film The Swarm. He also participated in the entertainment shows that were part of Radio Belgrade's "Veselo veče". Jakšić's began his singing career in 1954, after his singing at a party in the headquarters of the paper Borba impressed Dule Radetić, the music director of Radio Belgrade. In 1955 he achieved fame with the schlagers Noćas nisu sjale and Žarko…
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Awards
Zlatni Beočug, the highest annual recognition of the Cultural and Educational Association of Belgrade (1976)
Annual Award of the National Theater (1976)
3 plaques of the Meritorious Citizen of Belgrade
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Medal of Merit for the People
Order of Labor with a Golden Wreath
Order of Merit for the People with Silver Wreath
Golden badge of the Tourist Association of Belgrade.