Rajko Dujmić

Rajko Dujmić (7 August 1954 – 4 August 2020) was a Croatian songwriter, composer and music producer best known as a member of the pop group Novi fosili.^[1]

Rajko Dujmić
Born	(1954-08-07)7 August 1954 Zagreb, PR Croatia, Yugoslavia
Died	4 August 2020(2020-08-04) (aged 65) Rijeka, Croatia
Occupations	Songwriter composer music producer
Years active	1974–2020
Spouse	Snježana Dujmić ​ (m. 1990)​
Children	1
Musical career
Genres	Pop
Instruments	Vocals guitar piano violin
Labels	Jugoton Croatia Records

He composed the winner entry of Eurovision Song Contest 1989, "Rock me", along with Stevo Cvikić. They also composed the two previous Yugoslav entries, "Ja sam za ples", sung by Novi fosili, and "Mangup", sung by Srebrna Krila.

He received the Porin award for lifetime achievement at the Croatian music awards in 2013.^[2][3]

Personal life

He married his wife Snježana on 2 December 1990. He had a son Tin from a previous marriage.^[4]

After involvement in a traffic accident in the village of Stari Laz, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, on 29 July 2020,^[5] Dujmić died six days later, on 4 August, at the Rijeka Clinical Hospital Center. He was 65.^[6]