Other names Etelka Heka Years active 1966– Other name Etelka Heka | Occupation Writer, poet, singer Parent(s) János Heka
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Born 26 October 1936 (age 80) ( 1936-10-26 ) Gajić Partner(s) Ernő Kenéz, opera singer Website katalogus.nlvk.hu/html/kenezetelka/elete.htm Nationality Croatian, Hungarian, Austrian Similar László Polgár, Ágnes Vanilla, Tamás Mester, Tamás Pál, Sándor Révész | ||
Etelka Kenéz Heka ([ˈɛtɛlkɒ ˈkɛneːz ˈhɛkɒ]) (26 October 1936 in Gajić – ), sometimes Etelka Heka ([ˈɛtɛlkɒ ˈhɛkɒ]) is a Hungarian writer, poet and singer.
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Life
She was born on 26 October 1936 in Gajić (Hungarian: Hercegmárok or Márok), Yugoslavia but she was raised at Zmajevac (Hungarian: Vörösmart). She graduated from the secondary grammar School at Bački Monoštor (Hungarian: Monostorszeg). She took a degree at the Teachers' Training Faculty in Hungarian in Subotica, University of Novi Sad. After her graduation she started to learn to sing from opera singer Margit Markovics privately. She played at Novi Sad Theatre and sang at Radio Television of Vojvodina. She also sang in Vienna in 1966, then in West Germany and Denmark. Although she is a Hungarianwoman, she visited Hungary for the first time in 1974, and she met her husband, opera singer Ernő Kenéz in Budapest. They moved to Vienna where they married and they had a restaurant. In 1997 they came to Hungary when her husband became deathly ill and her spouse died at his birth town, Hódmezővásárhely in 1998.
She has three citizenships: Hungarian, Austrian and Croatian and she has got houses also in Vienna and Szeged but she lives in Hódmezővásárhely. She wrote about 90 books.