He learned singing, playing piano and guitar from age 6 with a private teacher, and from 14, in a school of music.

Discovering his talent and wide-spectrum voice, he was taught by known figures like composer György Geszler and András Bágya.

The two songs, and his first prize at the largest pol-beat festival of the Eastern Bloc in Sochi made him well known in the region.

The ongoing popularity came with a change of lifestyle, including heavy smoking and alcohol, habits his weak heart could not bear.

He was buried in the Farkasréti Cemetery in Budapest, an event that was attended by tens of thousands of mourning fans.