#BIRTHDAY: 27 Sept – Daniel Kovač is 70

Did we hear you ask for a duet? Did we? Did we? well, you’re getting one anyway. One from a famous year which featured songs with a very common theme. Yep, the year of note was 1990.

Our friends in Germany sent today’s birthday boy Daniel Kovač – a Yugoslav (well, he was at the time), along with his pal Chris Kempers. It was an inspired choice with a contest in Zagreb, which was also then in Yugoslavia. On the downside, due to walls tumbling down in Europe, a few other countries sang songs about walls crumbling before your very eyes. In the scheme of things, their ninth place was a good result. It did best out the three songs in German and got a 12 and a 10. Maybe the song performed after them overshadowed this earnest little song, but it was pleasantly free of histrionics.

Authors: Riigi Ametnik, John Stanton

Source: OnEurope