Anthony "Tony" Cetinski (born 31 May 1969) is a Croatian pop singer. Today, he is one of the most popular male singers in Croatia and countries of former Yugoslavia.
Biography
Born into a family of musicians in Pula (then SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia), Cetinski began singing when he was 15 years old with various local groups. He moved from Rovinj to Zagreb in 1991 to start his career, and quickly became one of Croatia's leading pop stars. In 1994, he represented Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Nek' ti bude ljubav sva".
At the 10th Croatian Radio Festival in 2006, Cetinski won all three prizes in pop-rock category: HRF Grand Prix – pop-rock, Listener's award and Music Editors award. He also recorded the song "Lagala nas mala" as a duet with Macedonian singer Toše Proeski. This song appears on both of Proeski's 2005 albums, Po tebe and its Croatian edition Pratim te. The song was also remixed by DeeJay Time.
In 2009, Cetinski won the Porin award for best male vocal performance with his song "Ako to se zove ljubav". Cetinski sold out two concerts in Arena Zagreb the same year with more than 30,000 people attending.
In December 2020, Cetinski was announced as one of the 14 finalists for Dora 2021, the national contest in Croatia to select the country's Eurovision Song Contest 2021 entry. He performed the song "Zapjevaj, sloboda je!" in a duet with its author Kristijan Rahimovski.
Personal life
Tony is married to Dubravka Dujak. He is a devout Roman Catholic.
Cetinski starred in the RTL Televizija TV show Mjenjačnica (Exchange Office) where he swapped his job with a stone carver from Donji Humac on the island of Brač for one day.
On 3 November 2017 in Rovinj, Cetinski drove over a 62-year-old man who was lying on the road in an alcoholic state, killing him. He was accused of causing a traffic accident through negligence, and pleaded not guilty. He was ultimately acquitted in September 2019.
In May 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia, Cetinski opposed to the COVID-19 vaccination, claiming that he would rather get detained into a Goli Otok prison for the unvaccinated, and spreading misinformation by relating the vaccination to microchipping. In September 2022, after USKOK arrested twelve Zagreber medical workers for falsifying vaccination certificates, Cetinski's name was one of those on the list of people who were issued false certificates. In July 2023, after Zagreb was hit by a powerful storm that killed two people, Cetinski alleged that the storm had been caused by HAARP.
Discography
Samo srce ne laže (1990) Ljubomora I (1992) Ljubomora II (1993) Ljubav i bol (1995) Prah i pepeo (1996) A1 (1998) Triptonyc (2000) A sada... (2003) Budi uz mene (2005) Ako to se zove ljubav (2008) Da Capo (2010) Best of Tony Cetinski (2011) Opet si pobijedila (2012) Kao u snu (2018)