- She performed on many famous festivals (in Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Sopot, Palma de Majorca, Sofia, Istanbul etc.).
- TShe spent 1963 and 1964 touring USSR, Poland, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden. She also had a lot of TV appearances in these countries.
- Jacques Chirac honored Tereza in 1999 with Knighthood of High Decoration of Arts and Culture.
- She was frequently called as La bête de scène or Super-Dalida by French press.
- She won many golden records and for it, she won for several times the Yugoslav award for Best Record Seller - Golden Bird.
- She participated in charity work, which included UNESCO's gala concerts.
- She won a federal young musicians competition in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Afterwards, she graduated from the flute program at the Zagreb Music Academy, and as a student began appearing in amateur music events.
- She is an internationally acclaimed Croatian recording artist.
- Kesovija finished the 1980s touring in Scandinavia and representing Yugoslavia national football team on Italian TV during the World Cup.
- In 2002, her concert from Olympia was realized on CD edition. That 2002 is important year in her career, because she had some concerts together with Oscar and Grammy winner, Michel Legrand. They performed together superbly Les parapluies de Cherbourgh, which was announced as a concert of the year.
- She has held many concerts around the world, being one of the few Yugoslav musicians to have sold out shows in The Royal Albert Hall, L'Olympia and Carnegie Hall.
- With the song "Bien plus fort", Tereza was chosen by Grace Kelly to represent Monaco in the Eurovision 1966.
- She spent 1963 and 1964 touring USSR, Poland, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden. She also had a lot of TV appearances in these countries.
- In Yugoslavia, she was honored with Best Female Singer of the Year Award six years in a row (1974-79).
- She also had a successful career in France.
- In 1965, she moved to France, although she did not speak French. There she became a famous star. At the beginning she was singing in cabarets; she was mostly singing in Carevic cabaret.
- At the end of the 70s she was at the height of her fame. All her records were awarded, she sang to Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito and she was Tito's favourite singer.
- In 1962, shortly after the start of her professional career, she won her first international contest at Saint-Vincent, Italy.
- Tereza Kesovija was one of the most recognizable figures on the music scene in former Yugoslavia, and is renowned for her wide vocal range and operatic style.
- She was honoured with the Best Yugoslav Female Singer of the Year award for several times and she realised golden, platinum and diamond records, but the most important event was in 1988, when she performed at Olympia Hall in Paris. It was announced as the event of the season.
- Her press conference for her first post-war concerts in Serbia was heavily covered, with more than 200 journalists.
- Her Croatian album Zaustavi vrijeme (Stop the Time) was third best-selling album in Croatia.
- Following the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, there were wars all over the former Yugoslavia, including the Croatian War of Independence between 1991 and 1995. She defended it with a song. She had a lot of concerts in Italy, France and Germany for collecting money to the defence of Croatia.
- In 2010, she celebrated 50 years onstage with a concert "JoS se srce umorilo nije" at Zagreb's Lisinski Concert Hall.
- Claudio Villa recorded "Il tuo mondo", an Italian version of Tereza's "Nono" and Mireille Mathieu recorded the French version, "Pour deux coeurs qui s'aiment".
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