Branko Črnac Tusta

Branko Črnac – Tusta (1955–2012) was a Yugoslav-born singer, frontman of the Croatian cult punk-band KUD Idijoti.

He was born on 6 October 1955 in Pula, in a family originating from an unspecified village on the Ćićarija hill.

[1] He graduated from Pula Technical School, and from 1978 till death he worked at Uljanik Electric Machines and Equipment Factory (TESU), where he eventually became a head of a department; he was a trade-union representative for the Trade Unions of Istria, Kvarner and Dalmatia, and he actively organized and participated in workers' protests.

[2] He joined KUD Idijoti in 1985, four years after the band's formation, and due to his charisma, stage persona and sincere anti-fascist convictions he soon became one of the best known and most important punk singers in former Yugoslavia.

[5] Being the frontman of KUD Idijoti, Tusta participated in the recording of all the band's albums: On the second anniversary of his death, one street in Pula was named after him, the stairwell that leads to the Uljanik rock-club, one of the main meeting-points for local alternative musicians.