Martin Ďurinda

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Maťo Ďurinda
Ďurinda performing in 2009
Background information
Birth name	Martin Ďurinda
Born	(1961-11-08) 8 November 1961 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Origin	Czechoslovakia
Genres	Heavy metal hard rock alternative
Occupations	Musician songwriter
Instruments	Vocals piano guitar bass
Years active	1985–present
Labels	EMI Czech Republic
Member of	Tublatanka
Formerly of	Nervy
Website	tublatanka.sk

Martin "Maťo" Ďurinda (born 8 November 1961) is the vocalist and guitarist of the Slovak hard rock/heavy metal band Tublatanka. His hometown is Bratislava, Slovakia.

Biography

In his youth, Ďurinda had aspirations of becoming a hockey player while teaching himself to play guitar and piano. He learned to sing from his mother, who was a high school music teacher. Between 1977 and 1980, he was a member of the pop group Nervy. In 1982, he enrolled at Comenius University in Bratislava, where he majored in pharmacy. It was there that he met Juraj Černý and Pavol Horváth, and they formed the band Tublatanka. The group represented Slovakia at the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 in Dublin with the song "Nekonečná pieseň". In 1997, Ďurinda released the solo album Perfektný svet.

Discography

with Tublatanka

Studio albums

• Tublatanka (1985)
• Skúsime to cez vesmír (1987)
• Žeravé znamenie osudu (1988)
• Nebo – peklo – raj (1990)
• Volanie divočiny (1992)
• Poďme bratia do Betlehema (1993)
• Znovuzrodenie (1994)
• Pánska jazda (2001)
• Patriot (2005)
• Vianočný deň (2006)
• Svet v ohrození (2010)
• Uprostred chaosu (2023)

Compilations

• Neverending Song (six-track rare CD composed of Czech and English mixes of the track "Neverending Song", issued on the occasion of the band's participation in the Eurovision contest) (1994)
• Najvačšie hity No.1 – Pravda víťazí (1996)
• Najvačšie hity No.2 – Ja sa vrátim! (1998)
• Láska útočí (credited as Maťo Ďurinda, Tublatanka) (2002)
• Zlatá Tublatanka – 20 rockov (2003)
• Gold (credited as Tublatanka, Maťo Ďurinda) (2006)
• Najvačšie hity No.3 – Cítim sa fajn (2012)

Solo

• Perfektný svet (1997)

See also

• The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time

External links

• Tublatanka official website