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Name: Goran Bregovic  
   
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Date of Birth: 22nd March 1950
   
Place of Birth: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
   
Profession: Composer
 
 
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Goran Bregović (born March 22, 1950) is one of the most recognizable modern composers of the Balkans.

Early life

Goran Bregović was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina in former Yugoslavia to a Bosnian Croat father and a Bosnian Serb mother. His father was an officer in the Yugoslav People's Army. His parents divorced and he remained living with his mother in the Muslim part of Sarajevo.

Goran played violin in a music school, but was thrown out of it in second grade for being untalented. His musical education was thus reduced to what his friend taught him until Goran's mother bought him his first guitar in his early teens. Bregović was to enter a fine arts school but his aunt told his mother that it was full of homosexuals. His mother sent him to a technical (traffic) school and allowed him to grow long hair as a compromise. Upon entering the school, Goran joined the school band "Izohipse" and played bass guitar. But he was kicked out of that school, too (this time for misbehaviour - he crashed a school-owned Mercedes). Bregović then entered grammar school and its school band "Beštije" (again as a bass guitar player). When he was sixteen, his mother left him and went to the seaside. Goran had to take care of himself. He did that by playing folk music in a bar in Konjic, working on construction sites, and selling newspapers.

On a "Beštije" gig Željko Bebek spotted him and invited him to play bass guitar in his band "Kodeksi". Goran accepted. In the summer of 1969 they played for tourists in hotel Splendid in Dubrovnik. After finishing their job there, they were invited to Naples to play in a night club. They accepted, but lost their employment there by playing more progressive music and refusing to play the same repertoire as in Dubrovnik, which was what the owner wanted of them. Still, they remained in Naples and continued to play the music they fancied. In next few months "Kodeksi" shifted setup so Goran moved from bass guitar to lead guitar, and in the summer of 1970 "Kodeksi" had the following line-up: Goran Bregović, Željko Bebek, Zoran Redžić and Milić Vukašinović. All of them would eventually become members of Bijelo Dugme at some point in the future. At the time, they were largely influenced by Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, which was the merit of Milić Vukašinović who "infected" them with that kind of music. In the fall of 1970 this resulted in departure of Željko Bebek who (both as rhythm guitar player and singer) wasn't needed anymore in the band. At the end of the year, Goran's mother and Zoran's brother arrived to Naples and took the band back to Sarajevo.

Then in the autumn of 1971 Goran entered university and decided to study philosophy and sociology. He soon quit, however. In the same time Milić Vukašinović left for London, so Goran and Zoran started playing in a band, named Jutro (trans. "Morning"). The band in the next few years transformed a lot and on January 1, 1974 the band changed its name to Bijelo Dugme ("White Button").

Bijelo Dugme


Main article: Bijelo Dugme

The cult rock group Bijelo Dugme became one of the most popular groups of former Yugoslavia between the late 1970s and mid 1980s.

After Bijelo Dugme

Goran Bregović, Zoran Redžić and Željko Bebek on 2005 Bijelo Dugme concert in Sarajevo

At the time Bijelo Dugme was falling apart, Goran entered the world of film music. His first project was Emir Kusturica's Time of the Gypsies (1989) which turned out a great success (both the film and the music from it). Goran and Emir's collaboration continued and Goran composed music, which was performed by Iggy Pop) for Emir's next film Arizona Dream (1993). His next major project, music for Patrice Cheraeau's Queen Margot was again a great success, and the film won 2 awards on the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. Next year's Golden Palm went to Underground, for which Goran Bregović composed the music.

Bregović's music carries both South Slavic and Gypsy themes and is a fusion of popular music with traditional polyphonic music from the Balkans, tango and brass bands. Although he is a very popular musician in Eastern Europe, Bregović has been accused on several occasions of 'stealing' original Gypsy and folk music of the Balkans and ultimately rewriting and branding it as his own creation.

In 2005 he took part in 3 large farewell concerts of Bijelo Dugme.

Goran Bregović currently lives in Paris with his spouse Dženana Sudžuka and their three daughters: Ema, Una and Lulu. He also has a daughter Željka (from his university days relationship with a dancer in a Sarajevo night club) who gave birth to Goran's grand daughter Bianca. He has a brother named Predrag who lives in New York.

(Incomplete) list of films he did music for

  • 1977 - Butterfly cloud (Leptirov oblak) - Directed by: Zdravko Randić
  • 1979 - Personal Affairs (Lične stvari) - Directed by: Aleksandar Mandić
  • 1988 - Time of the Gypsies (Dom za veÅ¡anje) - Directed by: Emir Kusturica
  • 1989 - Kuduz - Directed by: Ademir Kenović
  • 1990 - Silent Gunpowder (Gluvi barut) - Directed by: Bahrudin ÄŒengić
  • 1991 - The Serbian Girl (Das Serbische Mädchen) - Directed by: Peter Sehr
  • 1991 - The Little One (Mala) - Directed by: Predrag Antonijević
  • 1991 - Charuga (ÄŒaruga) - Directed by: Rajko Grlić
  • 1993 - Arizona Dream - Directed by: Emir Kusturica
  • 1993 - Toxic Affair - Directed by: Philoméne Esposito
  • 1993 - La Nuit sacrée - Directed by: Nicolas Klotz
  • 1993 - La Nombril du monde - Directed by: Ariel Zeitoun
  • 1994 - Queen Margot - Directed by: Patrice Chéreau
  • 1995 - Underground - Directed by: Emir Kusturica
  • 1997 - A Chief in Love (Shekvarebuli kulinaris ataserti retsepti) - Directed by: Nana Dschordschadse
  • 1997 - The Serpent's Kiss - Directed by: Philippe Rousselot
  • 1997 - XXL - Directed by: Ariel Zeitoun
  • 1998 - Train de Vie - Directed by: Radu Mihaileanu
  • 1999 - The Lost Son - Directed by: Chris Menges
  • 1999 - Tuvalu - Directed by: Veit Helmer
  • 2000 - 27 Missing Kisses - Directed by: Nana Dschordschadse
  • 2000 - Je li jasno prijatelju? - Directed by: Dejan Ačimović
  • 2002 - Music for Weddings and Funerals - Directed by: Unni Straume

List of his film music albums

  • Arizona Dream
  • Underground - Soundtrack
  • La reine Margot - soundtrack
  • Time of the Gypsies / Kuduz - soundtrack
  • P.S.
  • Tales and songs from weddings and funerals

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