Tinkara Kovač
Tinkara Kovač (born 3 September 1978) is a Slovenian singer and musician.
Career
Career in general
Her professional career as a singer started in 1997, when she won "Most promising singer award" at the Portorož festival. Her appearance was encouraged by known local composer Danilo Kocjančič, which together with lyrics writer Drago Mislej – Mef and Marino Legovič wrote the winning song and later the whole material for her first album.
In 2004, at the time of her fourth concert in Ljubljana's Cankarjev dom hall, she invited Ian Anderson (singer of the group Jethro Tull), which greatly contributed to her decision to start playing flute. At Anderson's reverse invitation she participated as a guest during the band's tour in Croatia, Italy, Austria and Germany. Later she sang also with Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin and other musicians, like Carlos Núñez Muñoz, Dan Lavery, Massimo Bubola, Bungaro and Paul Millns. Her musical influences are U2, KT Tunstall, Imogen Heap, Pink Floyd, Coldplay and Jethro Tull.
Kovač
Kovač (Ковач), meaning "forger" (or "blacksmith") in Slavic languages, is a common surname in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Slovenia. Outside Europe, the surname is fairly common in the United States (especially Texas and California), Canada, and South America.
Kovač is a common surname in Croatia, with 9,614 carriers (2011 census), most of them living in northern and eastern parts of the country and in Serbia with 8,749 people bearing it. In Slovenia, some 4,800 bear this surname.
The surname Kovács is the Hungarian loanword of this word, and is one of the most frequent surnames in Hungary. The Romanian form is Covaci, and it is also a relatively frequent surname in Romania.
The derivative forms Kovačić or Slovenian Kovačič, as well as Kovačević and Bulgarian Kovachev, are also very common.
Cognates
Kovač (Jičín District)
Kovač is a village and municipality in Jičín District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic.
