Kid Durbin

Blaine Alphonsus "Kid" Durbin (September 10, 1886 – September 11, 1943) was a left-handed Major League Baseball outfielder and pitcher. He was born in Lamar, Missouri. Durbin was short for a Major League Baseball player, listed only at 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) tall and weighing 155 pounds, which may have resulted in him not having a better chance to play at the big league level full-time.

Major League career

Kid Durbin made his Major League debut on April 24, 1907, for the Chicago Cubs. That season, he appeared in 5 games as a pitcher, going 0–1 with a save. He also played the outfield in 5 games that season. He played for the Chicago Cubs during their 1907 and 1908 pennant-winning seasons but did not play either World Series. Before he was traded by the Cubs on January 18, 1909 along with Tom Downey to the Cincinnati Reds for John Kane, he had a batting average of only .250 and over 14 games played. He played six games for the Cincinnati Reds. A few months later, Durbin was traded on May 28, 1909 to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Ward Miller and cash. He finished his Major League career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, playing his final game on June 30, 1909.

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Seka Aleksić

Svetlana Aleksić Piljikić (pronounced [sʋɛ̌tlana ǎlɛksitɕ]; born 23 April 1981), known by her stage name Seka Aleksić, is a Serbian pop folk recording artist. Born in Bosnia, she moved to Serbia in 1992, at the start of the Bosnian War. After several years singing at discotheques throughout Europe, she had a breakthrough in 2002, after performing at a music festival. Her debut studio album Idealno tvoja was released 5 May 2002.

Early life

Svetlana Aleksić was born in Zvornik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She was born into an ethnically mixed marriage, the daughter of a Serb father Milorad Aleksić and Bosniak mother Ibrima (née Ramić). Her father hails from Niš, and currently lives in Loznica. Several regional media outlets have erroneously reported birth name as being Zuhra Ramizaj, a rumor started by Jelena Karleuša in August 2009 on Facebook. Her birth certificate, released to media 27 August 2013, proved that she was born as Svetlana Aleksić. Aleksić has a younger half-brother named Nedžad Ramić.

Tanja Savić

Tanja Savić (Serbian Cyrillic: Тања Савић; born 20 March 1985) is a Serbian pop-folk singer. She became famous aged 19 in 2004 while competing on the first season of the Zvezde Granda television singing contest and making it into the final six. Her debut album, Tako mlada, was released 16 June 2005.

Musical career

Despite not winning the grand finale, her public profile was raised sufficiently for Grand Production record label to sign her to a contract. This led to her debut album Tako mlada that turned into a major success, paving the way for a career that followed. With this album she become one of biggest stars in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria and on. She twice finished second and once fourth place at the Grand Festival.

Her two singles "Suknjica" and "Gde ljubav putuje" were theme songs for films Gucha: Distant Trumpet and Serbian Scars (2008), respectively.

Personal life

Tanja was born in Radinac village in Smederevo municipality, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia, to parents Staniša and Živana. In a 2004 interview, she stated that she was of Romani descent; she has since denied this.

Željko Joksimović

Željko Joksimović, often credited as Zeljko Joksimovic, (pronounced [ʒěːʎko jôksimoʋitɕ]; born 20 April 1972) is a Serbian singer, composer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He plays 12 different musical instruments including accordion, piano, guitar, and drums. Joksimović is multi-lingual, being fluent in Greek, English, Russian, Polish and French as well as his native Serbian.

He has a career as a solo pop artist and at the same time he is a prolific composer for other singers. He can be called a master of The Balkan Ballads for having written four of the most famous: "Lane moje", "Lejla", "Oro", and "Nije ljubav stvar". He also composes music for films, television series and theater shows. He represented Serbia and Montenegro in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Lane moje", placing second. He represented Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan and finished third.

He is a judge on the first series of X Factor Adria.

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