Idols

In the last few weeks we wanted to find out which idols our parents and grandparents used to have. You know how it was when we were young and collected posters, adored beautiful actresses, listened to our most favourite singers and admired our successful sportsmen. However, we all had somebody who we looked up to. We prepared a questionnaire in which 165 parents took part. Here is the list of the most popular Slovenian and foreign idols:

IDOL	AREA	NUMBER OF VOTES
The Beatles	music	20
Elvis Presley	music	15
Abba	music	15
Josip Broz Tito	policy	14
Ingemar Stenmark	sport	9
John F. Kennedy	policy	6
Ivica Šerfezi	music	5
John Wayne	film	4
Tom Jones	music	3
Tereza Kesovija	music	3
Novi fosili	music	3
Elizabeth Taylor	film	3
Brigitte Bardot	film	3

 

SLOVENIAN IDOLS:

IDOL	AREA	NUMBER OF VOTES
Ansambel bratov Avsenik	music	20
Miro Cerar	sport	18
Bojan Križaj	sport	16
Marjana Deržaj	music	15
Ansambel Lojzeta Slaka	music	13
Milena Zupančič	film	7
Leon Štukelj	sport	7
Pepel in kri	music	6
Majda Sepe	music	5
Janez Polda	sport	4
Mateja Svet	sport	3
Vili Resnik	music	3
Oto Pestner	music	3

 

Avsenik Brothers Ensemble is probably the world’s most successful Slovenian music group. It operated from 1953 to 1990. The group was originally a trio, which soon grew into a quartet and 1955 in the Gorenjska quintet, which was then renamed the brothers Avsenik Quintet. During the operation they released around 120 records and cassette tapes in the total circulation of more than 30 million individuals. Together they have about 670 songs. The most popular song of Avsenik’s band is the polka titled “Na Golici” in Slovenian, (“Trumpet Echoes” in English), which is the most played instrumental song in the world. (Source: http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansambel_bratov_Avsenik)

 

During the course of his international career, he won 21 European medals, including 10 golds, to go with his six World and two Olympic gold medals.

Miroslav Cerar competed in three Olympiads – in 1960, 1964 and 1968. Known as the king of the pommel horse event for more than a decade, four of his six world championship medals, and both Olympic gold medals, in 1964 and 1968, came on that apparatus. (Source: http://www.gymmedia.com/ljubljana04)

Bojan Križaj, born in Kranj, was a member of a well known Tržič, Slovenia ski family so he started skiing at the age of 3. In the season 1976/77 he received the first World Cup point, qualified among the 15 best slalom runners and later during that season in Madonna di Campiglio he hit his first top 3 podium. On January 20, 1980 he achieved the first Slovenian World Cup victory in Wengen, Switzerland and later he won seven more times, thus still being Slovenia’s most successful alpine skier ever. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojan_Kri%C5%BEaj)

 

(C) Andreja Vavpetič & Zdenka Wicher