The love of music led him to the 1959. music festival The First Voice of Sibenik where he won. His musical success continues with a victory in Split in 1971.  when in two days he won five awards. Earnings from the sale of plates he gave for the construction of the highway Zagreb-Split, which he did again 30 years later when the highway was finally finished.
He was also an actor playing with Šerbedžija in a movie Afternoon of a Pheasant.