Miklós Vig

Miklós Vig (11 July 1898 – 19 December 1944) was a Hungarian cabaret and jazz singer, actor, comedian and theater secretary

Background and biography

Early life Vig was born Miklós Voglhut in 1898 to Vilmos Vogelhut (1867-1942) and Roza Vogelhut (1870-1942) in a Hungarian Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. Another nephew, John Vig, is a physicist and was president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2009.

Murder The fact that Vig was married to a Catholic woman, Kató Szőke, and the fact that he changed his name, did not save him from the Holocaust. On 19 December 1944 he was among a group of Jews who were bound, lined up along the banks of the Danube and machine-gunned into the river by Hungarian Nazis, members of the Arrow Cross Party. The Shoes on the Danube Promenade commemorates those who were murdered in this fashion.

Music and comedy

Vig had his first major successes as a soloist, and later performed frequently in other cabarets including the Budapest Operetta Theatre and Budapest Orfeum. Although he made many recordings, he became most famous as a singer of popular music on the radio.

According to Gramofon (the Hungarian Jazz and Classical music magazine), Vig was considered part of the first generation of recorded Hungarian musicians. When Deutsche Gramophone found themselves falling behind the competition, they signed Vig, who became their first dance-music star. 1929 Messze van a Mester ucca Polydor 1929 Minden lány csak Wiener Walzert járt Polydor 1931 Minden ugy lesz, ahogy te kivánod Polydor Minden veréb tudja Polydor Mondd, nem kívánsz te túl sokat 1929 Mostanában mind a bárban... Ervé 1929 Nekem nem kell szerelem Polydor Őszi Fekete fellegek 1929 Pici piros, kicsi csókos szája Polydor 1929 Valami van magában... Polydor 1930 A vén Tabánban Polydor 1929 Vig Miklósnak jó kedve van Polydor 1929 A Volga rabja (Ey uchnjem)... Polydor