In 1992 Perković held concerts throughout Croatia, and released his first album the same year. It was while he was defending his home village that Perković became inspired to write one of the most popular songs during the war 'Bojna Čavoglave' ( Čavoglave Battalion), which launched his music career. He joined the Croatian National Guard where he was given the American Thompson gun, which became the nickname given to him by his battlefield comrades.
In 1991, Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia, prompting the Croatian War of Independence.
He rarely saw his father, who worked as a Gastarbeiter in Germany and rarely came home. Perković was born in 1966 in Čavoglave (at the time SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) to Marija and Ante.