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'''Marko Perković''' Thompson (born 27 October 1966) is a ] musician and has been the lead singer of the band ] since 1991. He is known for promoting peace, love for his country and love for God.His performances are filled with homeland songs and prayers. '''Marko Perković''' Thompson (born 27 October 1966) is a ] musician and has been the lead singer of the band ] since 1991. He is known for promoting extreme nationalist and controversial attitudes and is often linked with glorifying Nazi-Ustasha regime that ruled Croatia during WW2. His performance has sparked reactions from minority and human rights groups in Croatia and abroad and had been banned in some states.


==Early life and War== ==Early life and War==
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==Controversy== ==Controversy==
The lyrics of his songs often feature patriotic sentiments and relate to religion, family, the ], politics and media, but also contain notorious references to war crimes.<ref name="nytimes0707">{{cite news|first=Nicholas|last=Wood|title=Fascist Overtones From Blithely Oblivious Rock Fans|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/02/world/europe/02croatia.html|quote=On a hot Sunday evening in June, thousands of fans in a packed stadium here in the Croatian capital gave a Nazi salute as the rock star Marko Perkovic shouted a well-known slogan from World War II. At a recent concert in ], some fans of ... Perkovic wore the black caps of Croatia's World War II Nazi puppet government, known as the Ustaše. Some of the fans were wearing the black caps of Croatia's infamous Nazi puppet Ustaše government, which was responsible for sending tens of thousands of Serbs, Gypsies and Jews to their deaths in concentration camps.|work=]|date=2 July 2007|accessdate=2 July 2007}}</ref> Accused of ], in 2004, the band was prohibited from performing in the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.xs4all.nl/~afa/alert/engels/sl1_2004.html|title=Alert!: Croatian hate music group banned in Netherlands|publisher=Xs4all.nl|accessdate=18 April 2012}}</ref>
The lyrics of his songs often feature patriotic sentiments and relate to religion, family, the ].


In 2009 a concert in the Swiss city of ] was canceled after the ] called for an urgent statement on the issue of Thompson's concert, calling Perković a fascist.<ref>{{cite web|author=Anamarija Kronast|url=http://www.nacional.hr/clanak/67932/ne-zele-fasiste-thompsonu-zabranjen-koncert-i-ulaz-u-svicarsku|title=Ne žele "fašiste": Thompsonu zabranjen koncert i ulaz u Švicarsku|trans_title=They want no "fascists": Thompson's concert banned and entry to Switzerland declined|work=]|date=29 September 2009|accessdate=18 April 2012|archivedate=23 July 2012|deadurl=no|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/69NYKEuIo}}</ref> This resulted in a three-year ban from Switzerland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vecernji.hr/scena/policija-potvrdila-thompson-tri-godine-ne-smije-svicarsku-clanak-26439|title=Thompsonu zabranjen ulazak u Švicarsku i otkazan , Thompson was prohibited from entering into all Schengen countries for a period of three years, confirmed by Michele Cercone, spokesman for the Vice President of the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vecernji.hr/zvijezde/thompson-cak-tri-godine-ne-moze-uci-ni-u-europsku-uniju-27551|title=Thompson čak tri godine ne može ući ni u Europsku uniju|work=]|date=30 September 2009|language=Croatian|accessdate=7 September 2014}}</ref> In 2009 a concert in the Swiss city of ] was canceled after the ] called for an urgent statement on the issue of Thompson's concert, calling Perković a fascist.<ref>{{cite web|author=Anamarija Kronast|url=http://www.nacional.hr/clanak/67932/ne-zele-fasiste-thompsonu-zabranjen-koncert-i-ulaz-u-svicarsku|title=Ne žele "fašiste": Thompsonu zabranjen koncert i ulaz u Švicarsku|trans_title=They want no "fascists": Thompson's concert banned and entry to Switzerland declined|work=]|date=29 September 2009|accessdate=18 April 2012|archivedate=23 July 2012|deadurl=no|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/69NYKEuIo}}</ref> This resulted in a three-year ban from Switzerland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vecernji.hr/scena/policija-potvrdila-thompson-tri-godine-ne-smije-svicarsku-clanak-26439|title=Thompsonu zabranjen ulazak u Švicarsku i otkazan koncert, lifestyle, showbiz, glazba|publisher=Vecernji.hr|accessdate=18 April 2012|language=Croatian}}</ref> As Switzerland is a member of the ], Thompson was prohibited from entering into all Schengen countries for a period of three years, confirmed by Michele Cercone, spokesman for the Vice President of the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vecernji.hr/zvijezde/thompson-cak-tri-godine-ne-moze-uci-ni-u-europsku-uniju-27551|title=Thompson čak tri godine ne može ući ni u Europsku uniju|work=]|date=30 September 2009|language=Croatian|accessdate=7 September 2014}}</ref>


Perković created controversy by performing "]", a song seen by some as openly glorifying the ] regime and its crimes against humanity during World War II.<ref>{{cite web|author=Staff|url=http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak.aspx?id=178032|title=Thompson - domoljub ili fašist? Konačan odgovor je... - Vijesti.net|publisher=Index.hr|date=28 December 2003|accessdate=18 April 2012|language=Croatian}}</ref> The ] filed complaints to Croatia's state television channel regarding its broadcast of a singer accused of expressing nost, although Perković denies any connection with that period in history. The complaints were ignored.<ref>; accessed 5 March 2014.</ref> Many of his fans are known for their ], demonstrated by Ustaše uniforms (including black hats associated with the movement), symbols, and banners.<ref name="JPost1">{{cite > Perković has denied writing or even performing the song, stating that "he is a musician, not a politician".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adl.org/marko_perkovic|publisher=]|title=Backgrounder: Marko Perković and Thompson|accessdate=22 October 2008}}</ref> An organizer for a Thompson tour of ] in 2007 defended Perković, claiming the musician did not write the song nor is a copy available on any of his albums.<ref Perković created controversy by performing "]", a song seen by some as openly glorifying the ] regime and its crimes against humanity during World War II.<ref>{{cite web|author=Staff|url=http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak.aspx?id=178032|title=Thompson - domoljub ili fašist? Konačan odgovor je... - Vijesti.net|publisher=Index.hr|date=28 December 2003|accessdate=18 April 2012|language=Croatian}}</ref> The ] filed complaints to Croatia's state television channel regarding its broadcast of a singer accused of expressing nostalgia for the ], although Perković denies any connection with that period in history. The complaints were ignored.<ref>; accessed 5 March 2014.</ref> Many of his fans are known for their ], demonstrated by Ustaše uniforms (including black hats associated with the movement), symbols, and banners.<ref name="JPost1">{{cite web|url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1182409638377&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull|title=Ustashe rock n' roll|publisher=Fr.jpost.com|date=11 April 2012|accessdate=18 April 2012}}</ref> Perković has denied writing or even performing the song, stating that "he is a musician, not a politician".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adl.org/marko_perkovic|publisher=]|title=Backgrounder: Marko Perković and Thompson|accessdate=22 October 2008}}</ref> An organizer for a Thompson tour of ] in 2007 defended Perković, claiming the musician did not write the song nor is a copy available on any of his albums.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1192380666628&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull|title=Croatian singer's alleged Nazi sympathies strike a sour note|first=Michal|last=Lando|work=Jerusalem Post|accessdate=21 October 2008|date=27 October 2007}}</ref>


At the beginning of the song "Bojna Čavoglave", Perković invokes '']'' (''Ready for the homeland!''), wich was the slogan/rallying of Nikola Subic Zrinski in1566. He performed two large concerts in Croatia. One was in ], ], on 15 September 2002 with about 45,000 people. The other at ] in Zagreb on 17 June 2007 for 60,000 people. Following the June 2007 concert, the Croatian government released a statement decrying the use of Ustaša symbols. His concert at ] was aired live on the state owned ] pay-per-view channel, and several days later on the main national channel as well. {{citation needed|date=March 2014}} At the beginning of the song "Bojna Čavoglave", Perković invokes '']'' (''Ready for the homeland!''), and was the slogan/rallying cry of the Nazi-affiliated ].<ref>, iht.com, 1 July 2007.</ref> He performed two large concerts in Croatia.<!-- only two (2) ?? --> One was in ], ], on 15 September 2002 with about 45,000 people. The other at ] in Zagreb on 17 June 2007 for 60,000 people. Following the June 2007 concert, the Croatian government released a statement decrying the use of Ustaša symbols. His concert at ] was aired live on the state owned ] pay-per-view channel, and several days later on the main national channel as well. {{citation needed|date=March 2014}}


There have been reports about use of Marko Perović's infamous imagery by football fans in Croatia.<ref>http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2626589/Fascist-rocker-Marko-Perkovic-whips-up-racist-football-fans-in-Croatia.</ref> There have been reports about use of Marko Perović's infamous imagery by football fans in Croatia.<ref>http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2626589/Fascist-rocker-Marko-Perkovic-whips-up-racist-football-fans-in-Croatia.</ref>

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Marko Perković
Marko Perković, 2013Marko Perković, 2013
Background information
Born (1966-10-27) 27 October 1966 (age 58)
Čavoglave, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia (present-day Čavoglave, Republic of Croatia)
OriginCroatia
GenresPop-rock, Folk-rock (earlier), Hard rock, Heavy metal, Progressive metal, Symphonic metal (later)
OccupationSinger-songwriter
InstrumentVocals
Years active1991–present
Musical artist

Marko Perković Thompson (born 27 October 1966) is a Croatian musician and has been the lead singer of the band Thompson since 1991. He is known for promoting extreme nationalist and controversial attitudes and is often linked with glorifying Nazi-Ustasha regime that ruled Croatia during WW2. His performance has sparked reactions from minority and human rights groups in Croatia and abroad and had been banned in some states.

Early life and War

Marko Perković in Frankfurt

Marko Perković was born in 1966 in Čavoglave (at the time SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) to Marija and Ante. He rarely saw his father, who worked as a Gastarbeiter in Germany and rarely came home. He finished high school in Split. In 1991, Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia, prompting the Croatian War of Independence. He joined the Croatian National Guard where he was given the American Thompson gun, which became the nickname given to him by his battlefield comrades.

It was while he was defending his home village that Perković became inspired to write one of the most popular songs during the war: Bojna Čavoglave (Čavoglave Battalion), which launched his music career. In 1992, Perković held numerous humanitarian concerts throughout Croatia, and released his first album the same year. He continued to write songs to raise morale during the war. In 1995 he returned to the Croatian Army and the 142nd Drniš Brigade, and became one of the first soldiers to enter the captured cities of Drniš and Knin during Operation Storm.

Influences

Perković has said he is a fan of Nightwish, Iron Maiden, AC/DC and Dream Theater.

Controversy

The lyrics of his songs often feature patriotic sentiments and relate to religion, family, the 1991-1995 Croatian War of Independence, politics and media, but also contain notorious references to war crimes. Accused of neo-Nazism, in 2004, the band was prohibited from performing in the Netherlands.

In 2009 a concert in the Swiss city of Lucerne was canceled after the Social Democratic Party called for an urgent statement on the issue of Thompson's concert, calling Perković a fascist. This resulted in a three-year ban from Switzerland. As Switzerland is a member of the Schengen Agreement, Thompson was prohibited from entering into all Schengen countries for a period of three years, confirmed by Michele Cercone, spokesman for the Vice President of the European Commission.

Perković created controversy by performing "Jasenovac i Gradiška Stara", a song seen by some as openly glorifying the Ustaše regime and its crimes against humanity during World War II. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre filed complaints to Croatia's state television channel regarding its broadcast of a singer accused of expressing nostalgia for the Ustaše, although Perković denies any connection with that period in history. The complaints were ignored. Many of his fans are known for their ultranationalism, demonstrated by Ustaše uniforms (including black hats associated with the movement), symbols, and banners. Perković has denied writing or even performing the song, stating that "he is a musician, not a politician". An organizer for a Thompson tour of New York City in 2007 defended Perković, claiming the musician did not write the song nor is a copy available on any of his albums.

At the beginning of the song "Bojna Čavoglave", Perković invokes za dom - spremni! (Ready for the homeland!), and was the slogan/rallying cry of the Nazi-affiliated Ustaše. He performed two large concerts in Croatia. One was in Poljud Stadium, Split, on 15 September 2002 with about 45,000 people. The other at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb on 17 June 2007 for 60,000 people. Following the June 2007 concert, the Croatian government released a statement decrying the use of Ustaša symbols. His concert at Maksimir Stadium was aired live on the state owned HRT plus pay-per-view channel, and several days later on the main national channel as well.

There have been reports about use of Marko Perović's infamous imagery by football fans in Croatia.

Personal life

Perković's nickname, "Thompson", is actually a nom de guerre deriving from his time as a soldier in the 1991-1995 Croatian War of Independence, during which he carried a Thompson submachine gun. In the mid-1990s he was in a relationship with Croatian singer Danijela Martinović. Although never legally married, they had a Catholic marriage ceremony. After their separation, he sought a Church annulment, which was granted by the Ecclesiastical Court in Split in 2005. Thus, he was able to have a church marriage with his wife Sandra, a Croatian-Canadian he met during a concert in Canada. Together they have five children.

He owns a 20% share of the radio station Narodni radio, the most successful privately–owned Croatian radio station, notable for airing exclusively Croatian songs.

Pope Benedict XVI received Perković in an audience in December 2009.

Studio albums

Compilation albums

DVDs

  • 2002 - "Turneja - E, moj narode"
  • 2007 - "Turneja - Bilo jednom u Hrvatskoj

See also

References and notes

  1. Thompson: "God-willing, maybe I'll sing in English", Slobodna Dalmacija, 17 April 2008; retrieved 24 April 2008.
  2. Wood, Nicholas (2 July 2007). "Fascist Overtones From Blithely Oblivious Rock Fans". New York Times. Retrieved 2 July 2007. On a hot Sunday evening in June, thousands of fans in a packed stadium here in the Croatian capital gave a Nazi salute as the rock star Marko Perkovic shouted a well-known slogan from World War II. At a recent concert in Zagreb, some fans of ... Perkovic wore the black caps of Croatia's World War II Nazi puppet government, known as the Ustaše. Some of the fans were wearing the black caps of Croatia's infamous Nazi puppet Ustaše government, which was responsible for sending tens of thousands of Serbs, Gypsies and Jews to their deaths in concentration camps.
  3. "Alert!: Croatian hate music group banned in Netherlands". Xs4all.nl. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  4. Anamarija Kronast (29 September 2009). "Ne žele "fašiste": Thompsonu zabranjen koncert i ulaz u Švicarsku". Nacional. Archived from the original on 23 July 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  5. "Thompsonu zabranjen ulazak u Švicarsku i otkazan koncert, lifestyle, showbiz, glazba" (in Croatian). Vecernji.hr. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  6. "Thompson čak tri godine ne može ući ni u Europsku uniju". Večernji list (in Croatian). 30 September 2009. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
  7. Staff (28 December 2003). "Thompson - domoljub ili fašist? Konačan odgovor je... - Vijesti.net" (in Croatian). Index.hr. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  8. "Wiesenthal Center slams Croatian star nostalgic for pro-Nazi regime"; accessed 5 March 2014.
  9. "Ustashe rock n' roll". Fr.jpost.com. 11 April 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  10. "Backgrounder: Marko Perković and Thompson". Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved 22 October 2008.
  11. Lando, Michal (27 October 2007). "Croatian singer's alleged Nazi sympathies strike a sour note". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 21 October 2008.
  12. "A Croatian rock star flirts with the Nazi past", iht.com, 1 July 2007.
  13. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2626589/Fascist-rocker-Marko-Perkovic-whips-up-racist-football-fans-in-Croatia.
  14. "Thompson kupio 20% Narodnog radija za 4000 kuna". Index.hr (in Croatian). 14 April 2004. Retrieved 3 April 2012.
  15. "Papa primio Thompsona dan prije Mesića" (in Croatian). Dnevnik.hr. Retrieved 18 April 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)

External links

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Studio albums
Compilations
Live and other albums
Videos and films
Tours
  • E, moj narode
  • Bilo jednom u Hrvatskoj
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