December 23, 2022 - The famous Croatian singer Massimo Savic has died.

As Jutarnji writes, his daughter and wife reported on their father's and husband's sudden death on Facebook.

"Our dad, husband, pride, and love, Massimo Savic, left us after a short but heroic struggle.

Although he left this world, he will live forever in our souls; smiling, warm, strong, full of love, and woven of art.

We'll be your girls forever.

Eni and Mirna'"

The sad news was also confirmed by the record company Aquarius Records. Massimo died in the Vinogradska hospital, where he was treated for lung cancer.

Massimo Savic was born in Pula on June 6, 1962. He attended and graduated from high school in Zagreb, where his musical career began.

He presented himself to the public for the first time in 1983 as the leader of the synth-pop group Dorian Gray when he released the first album 'Sjaj u tami'. Their second album, "For Your Eyes," was released two years later.

After the group's breakup, Massimo began a successful independent career in the nineties and released four albums in collaboration with Zrinko Tutic.

After a five-year hiatus, he released a new album with the simple title Massimo, followed by the acclaimed albums Vještina and Vještina 2, which returned Massimo to the very top of Croatian mainstream pop-rock music and confirmed that he was one of the best singers in the area.

In the middle of 2011, Massimo released a huge hit, 'Iz jednog pogleda,' whose lyrics and music were written by Predrag Martinjak. This was their first collaboration, which continued until the very end.

In his career, he won nine Porin discography awards and released 17 solo albums.

Massimo tried his hand several times as a jury member in singing shows. The first time was in 2015 when he was a jury member in RTL's X Factor. Two years later, on RTL as well, but this time in Zvijezde. In 2019, Massimo became one of the mentors on the Croatian version of the world-famous project The Voice.

Massimo was also nominated eight times for the Golden Studio media award and won the award twice - for song of the year and best singer.

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