Martin "Maťo" Ďurinda (born 8 November 1961) is the vocalist and guitarist of the Slovak

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Tublatanka Tublatanka is a Slovak rock band formed in the autumn of 1982 in Bratislava, best known for the hits "Pravda víťazí" and "Dnes". The band's classic lineup consisted of Maťo Ďurinda, Palo Horváth, and Juraj "Ďuro" Černý, from 1982 to 1 ...

. 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

. The group represented Slovakia at the

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in Dublin with the song "Nekonečná pieseň".eurovision.tv/country/slovakia
/ref> In 1997, Ďurinda released the solo album ''Perfektný svet''.

Discography

with Tublatanka

Studio albums * ''

'' (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)

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