His first significant public singing experience occurred in 1968 when he spent a couple of days at the Montenegrin coast for the November 29 holiday (communist Yugoslavia's republic day). Staying in the house his father owned in the coastal community of Bao*i*i, 17-year-old Zdravko got persuaded by a friend Nedim Idrizovi* to enter the amateur signing competition in nearby Bijela. He won second prize singing ``Lady Madonna'' by The Beatles.
Zdravko
Nedim Idrizovi*