Martin Ďurinda

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Martin "Maťo" Ďurinda (born 8 November 1961) is the vocalist and guitarist of the Slovak hard rock/heavy metal band Tublatanka. His hometown is Bratislava, Slovakia.

Maťo Ďurinda
blurry image of Maťo Ďurinda a black-and-white zebra print shirt, playing electric guitar and singing into a microphone onstage
Ďurinda performing in 2009
Background information
Birth nameMartin Ďurinda
Born (1961-11-08) 8 November 1961 (age 63)
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
OriginCzechoslovakia
Genres
Occupations
  • Musician
  • songwriter
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • piano
  • guitar
  • bass
Years active1985–present
LabelsEMI Czech Republic
Member ofTublatanka
Formerly ofNervy
Websitetublatanka.sk

Biography

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In his youth, Ďurinda had aspirations of becoming a hockey player while teaching himself to play guitar and piano. He learned to sing from his mother, who was a high school music teacher. Between 1977 and 1980, he was a member of the pop group Nervy. In 1982, he enrolled at Comenius University in Bratislava, where he majored in pharmacy. It was there that he met Juraj Černý and Pavol Horváth, and they formed the band Tublatanka.[1] The group represented Slovakia at the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 in Dublin with the song "Nekonečná pieseň".[2] In 1997, Ďurinda released the solo album Perfektný svet.

Discography

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with Tublatanka

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Studio albums

Compilations

  • Neverending Song (six-track rare CD composed of Czech and English mixes of the track "Neverending Song", issued on the occasion of the band's participation in the Eurovision contest) (1994)
  • Najvačšie hity No.1 – Pravda víťazí (1996)
  • Najvačšie hity No.2 – Ja sa vrátim! (1998)
  • Láska útočí (credited as Maťo Ďurinda, Tublatanka) (2002)
  • Zlatá Tublatanka – 20 rockov (2003)
  • Gold (credited as Tublatanka, Maťo Ďurinda) (2006)
  • Najvačšie hity No.3 – Cítim sa fajn (2012)

Solo

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  • Perfektný svet (1997)

See also

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References

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