After recovering from a suicide attempt, he held a big concert at Dom Sportova in Zagreb. However, that was not the end of Kovač's career. New albums followed; in 1999, Mišo recorded the album "Budi čovjek dobre volje" ("Be a Man of Good Will"), as he says, thanks to his daughter Ivana. The following year, he briefly returned to music festivals and immediately won the Split Festival with the song "Vraćam ti se Dalmacijo mati" ("I'm Returning to You, Mother Dalmatia"). In the same year he recorded the big hit "Dalmatino", a kind of anthem of Dalmatia. In September 2001, he held two concerts in New York for Croatian emigrants and donated half of the proceeds to the families of firefighters killed on 11 September. For the new studio album "Mir u srce" ("Peace in the Heart"), released in 2004, in 2006 he received a silver award, and for the compilations "Pjevaj, legendo" ("Sing, Legend"; 1999) and "Najdraže pjesme Miše Kovača" ("Favorite Songs by Mišo Kovač"; 2003) two platinum awards. From the album "Mir u srce", the single "Rođo moj" ("My Cousin") achieved the greatest success. In August 2004, with Klapa Teuta as guests, he held a concert on the Republic of Croatia Square between the Cathedral of St. James and the city hall in Šibenik. The concert was published on the DVD "Mišo u Šibeniku" ("Mišo in Šibenik").