Antun Nikolic Tuca was born on June 10,1943 in Zupanja. In 1949, at the age of six he performs for the first time in public with his older brother . In 1956. his family moves to Osijek where he officially starts to study tambura at STD "Pajo Kolaric". Two years later he becomes a member of "Radio Osijek Tamburica Orchestra". His teacher was legendary Jaso Lakatos. He starts to play guitar in 1960, and together with Krunoslav Slabinac - Kico forms a band called Tornado, later in 1963 he forms another band with Kico called Dinamiti (one of the first rock bands in Croatia). He plays with Dinamiti until 1967. At that time he revives "Radio Osijek Tamburica Orchestra" and in 1971 forms "Slavonski Becari". Last year Slavonski Becari celebrated their 25 year anniversary. Tuca has promoted tambura music all over the world, recoded over 250 songs and since 1969 he was a music director at Radio Osijek. Slavonski Becari are still active and Tuca is still performing and recording.

Here is an old picture of Slavonski Becari from 1967

Tuca i Kico founded Slavonski Becari back in 1971. Since then, there were more than 26 different band memebers. Besides Kico, other lead vocalists were Mirjana Primorac, Šima Jovanovac, Miroslav Škoro, Željko Barba, Željko Loncaric Žec,
Viktorija Kulišic, Mario Nikolic i Marta Nikolin.

Slavonski Becari toured US and Canada nine times. They toured Australia two times. They performed in every Europena country. In 2002 Becari will be celeberating their 30th Anniversary and areplanning a big anniversary concert in Osijek, Croatia.

Slavonski Becari today
Members are Antun Nikolic Tuca, Mario Nikolic, Dalibor Stanarevic, Boris Kiraly i Igor Milic.