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Listen to a famous Croatian song O MARIJANA in Japanese
http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/9719/1/Listen-to-a-famous-Croatian-song-O-MARIJANA-in-Japanese.html
By Prof.Dr. Darko Zubrinic
Published on 02/5/2009
 
A famous Croatian tune O MARIJANA composed by Vlaho Paljetak from Dubrovnik, Croatia, is now available via Internet, sung by Seiji Tanaka in Japanese and Croatian. The song was recorded in Japan already in 1976. It is extremely popular in Croatia.

Vlaho Paljetak's tune sung by the Japanese singer Seiji Tanaka in 1976


O Marijana, issued in Japan in 1976, sung by Seiji Tanaka, Japanese pop singer born in 1947.


 

We invite you to listen to Vlaho Paljetak's tune O, MARIJANA, sung by Seiji Tanaka in Japanese and Croatian, recorded in 1976:

O MARIJANA [mp3] 3.6 MB

By the courtesy of Dr. Drago Štambuk, Croatian ambassador in Tokyo.

Source: Croatia - Japan



Vlaho Paljetak (1893-1944), born in Dubrovnik



Another Croatian song which is well known in Japan is U BOJ from the opera Nikola Šubić Zrinski by Ivan Zajc.
 


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