Background
He was born Miklós Voglhut in 1898 to a Hungarian Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary.
He was born Miklós Voglhut in 1898 to a Hungarian Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary.
Background and Although he went to acting school, he had better success as a cabaret singer. In 1924 as his career was picking up he changed his surname to Vig. He changed his name because Voglhut was a Jewish-sounding name and antisemitism was growing at the time.
Vig means cheerful or merry.
lieutenant is a nice, short, typically Hungarian name that also made a great stage name. Family
Other musicians from the Vig family include saxophone and clarinet player György Vig (brother) and jazz musician Tommy Vig (nephew).
A nephew of Miklós Vig, Doctor John R. Vig, was president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2009. Murder
The Shoes on the Danube Promenade honors the memory of those who were murdered in this fashion.
He was a student of Géza Boross and his talent was discovered by Dezső Gyárfás and Antal Nyáray.
He had his first major successes at the Intim Kabaré 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. A 1935 article in Színházi Élet describes Miklós as a singer of popular sentimental songs.
According to Gramofon (the Hungarian Jazz and Classical music magazine), Miklós was considered part of the first generation of recorded Hungarian musicians.
When Deutsche Gramophone found themselves falling behind the competition, they signed Miklós who ultimately became their first dance-music star "beloved all around the country.".
Born in Budapest on July 11, 1898, he was murdered there on December 19, 1944 by members of the Arrow Cross. On December 19, 1944, Miklós 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.
