[1] Zámbó started his singing career in the Hungarian State Radio Children's Choir.

His 2000 album Christmas With Jimmy had been Hungary's top-selling record for many weeks before his death.

Between March 2000 and his death he hosted his own popular show on commercial TV station RTL.

Budapest police said that he leaned out of a window and fired two shots from his 9 mm Beretta at a neighbor's rooster whose crowing was disturbing his sleep, in an effort to scare it away.

Then, to show his wife that there were no more bullets in the gun, he removed the magazine, put it to his head and pulled the trigger.