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DAG (former Yugoslav Band)
DAG ( sr-cyr, ДАГ), also known as Trio DAG (Трио ДАГ) were a Yugoslav rock band formed in Belgrade in 1972. Although short-lasting, they were one of the most notable representatives of the Yugoslav acoustic rock scene. The band consisted of Dragan Popović (guitar, vocals) and brothers Grujica (percussion, vocals) and Aleksandar Milanović (guitar, vocals). Initially, the band performed acoustic music, but on the recording of their only studio album, ''Sećanja'' (1974), they played electric instruments. The album, featuring poetic lyrics written by lyricist Marina Tucaković, was praised by the critics, but saw little commercial success, and Popović left the band, DAG ending their activity soon after. History 1972-1975 The band was formed in 1972 as an acoustic trio consisting of Dragan Popović (guitar, vocals), and brothers Grujica (percussion, vocals) and Aleksandar Milanović (guitar, vocals). They named the band after the initials of their first names (Dragan, Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgrade
Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. The population of the Belgrade metropolitan area is 1,685,563 according to the 2022 census. It is one of the Balkans#Urbanization, major cities of Southeast Europe and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, third-most populous city on the river Danube. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign of Augustus and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zagreb
Zagreb ( ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slovenia at an elevation of approximately above mean sea level, above sea level. At the 2021 census, the city itself had a population of 767,131, while the population of Zagreb metropolitan area is 1,086,528. The oldest settlement in the vicinity of the city was the Roman Andautonia, in today's Šćitarjevo. The historical record of the name "Zagreb" dates from 1134, in reference to the foundation of the settlement at Kaptol, Zagreb, Kaptol in 1094. Zagreb became a free royal city in 1242. In 1851, Janko Kamauf became Zagreb's List of mayors of Zagreb, first mayor. Zagreb has special status as a Administrative divisions of Croatia, Croatian administrative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San (band)
San ( sr-cyr, Сан, trans. ''The Dream'') was a Yugoslav rock band formed in Belgrade in 1971. Formed and led by keyboardist and composer Aleksandar "Sanja" Ilić, San was a prominent act of the early 1970s Yugoslav rock scene. The group disbanded in 1975, after the band's vocalist Predrag Jovičić died in concert from an electric shock. Band history 1971–1975 San was formed in 1971 by keyboardist and composer Aleksandar "Sanja" Ilić, formerly of the band Vragolani (''The Imps''). San consisted of Ilić (keyboards), Predrag Jovičić (vocals), former Bele Višnje member Aleksandar Slaviković (guitar), Dragoslav Jovanović (bass guitar) and former Smeli (''The Daring Ones'') member Aleksandar Grujić (drums). In 1971, the band released their debut record, a 7-inch single featuring the songs "Tebe sam želeo" ("I Wanted You") and "Helena", through PGP-RTB record label. Two years later, the band released another single, featuring the songs "Papirni brodovi" ("Paper Ships") ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dušan Prelević
Dušan Prelević "Prele" (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Прелевић Преле; 11 November 1948 – 28 July 2007) was a Serbian and Yugoslav singer, journalist and writer. Prelević was widely known for his raspy voice, his transgressive public persona, and his trademark eyepatch (which he startred wearing in mid-1990s, after he lost his right eye in a fight). During his musical career, Prelević released three solo albums and one album with the symphonic rock band Opus. He also made recordings with rock band Korni Grupa and jazz rock band Oliver. Prelević wrote articles and short stories for a number of Serbian and Yugoslav magazines and authored three books of short stories. Biography Early life Prelević was born in Belgrade on 11 November 1948. As young, he studied to become a clockmaker. In his early years, Prelević was interested in sports: he played in football clubs Bulburderac and Red Star Belgrade, and was a goalkeeper in the ice hockey club Partizan. Musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jadranka Stojaković
Jadranka Stojaković ( sr-Cyrl, Јадранка Стојаковић, 24 July 1950 – 3 May 2016) was a Bosnian singer-songwriter popular in the former Yugoslavia, known for her unique voice. Her best known hits are "Sve smo mogli mi", "Što te nema", and "Bistre vode Bosnom teku". Biography Stojaković was born in Sarajevo to a family of school teachers. Her infancy was spent in a small village near Bosanski Novi where her parents were assigned as teachers. Her parents soon divorced and she moved with her mother back to Sarajevo. Over the subsequent few years, the two were continually on the move—throughout Yugoslav towns and communities experiencing shortages of primary school teachers where her mother would get work—Dubrovnik, Gradac na Moru, Vareš, etc. Stojaković and her mother eventually settled in various villages around Sarajevo, which is where Stojaković spent a notable part of her childhood. At the age of 16, Stojaković joined her uncle Vukašin Radulović's ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slađana Milošević
Aleksandra Milošević Hagadone ( sr-cyr, Александра Милошевић Хагадон; 3 October 1955 – 26 March 2024), better known as Slađana Milošević ( sr-Cyrl, Слађана Милошевић, ), was a Serbian and Yugoslav singer, songwriter, record producer, and author. Often referred to by the nickname "Rock Princess", Milošević was one of the most prominent female artists of the Yugoslav rock scene. Milošević began learning classical music at the age of five, playing piano and later switching to violin. As a teenager, she played bass guitar in several bands, including one of the last lineups of the popular band Džentlmeni. After performing and recording with the Radio Television Belgrade Orchestra and Saša Subota's Orchestra during early and mid-1970s and performing with the disco group Zdravo, Milošević started her solo career in 1977 with the single "Au-au". Her following singles and her erotic image brought her large media attention. She rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dado Topić
Adolf "Dado" Topić is a Croatian rock musician. He was the lead singer and founder of Time, a 1970s progressive rock band from the former Yugoslavia. From 1970 to late 1971, he was also the lead singer of the popular prog-rock band Korni Grupa (also known as The Kornelyans). He is a male vocalist who sang the entry from Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, together with the band Dragonfly. Career Topić has performed at Etnofest Neum twice: in 1997 with "Na te mislim" and in 2008 with "Nema prodaje". He collaborated (singing and producing albums) with Smak. Discography *1972 - Time Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequ ... *1975 - Time II *1976 - Život u Čizmama s visokom petom *1979 - Neosedlani *1980 - Šaputanje na jastuku *2001 - Otok u moru tišine *2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raša Đelmaš
Ratislav "Raša" Ðelmaš ( sr-Cyrl, Ратислав-Раша Ђелмаш; 26 January 1950 – 28 October 2021) was a Serbian and Yugoslav rock musician, best known as a member of the bands YU Grupa and Zebra. Musical career Đelmaš started his career as the drummer in the band Anđeli (''The Angels''), continuing in the bands Hendriksova Deca ('' Hendrix's Children''), Mobi Dik (''Moby Dick'') and Felix. In 1972, he was a forming member of Pop Mašina, later that year he moved to Siluete, and finally to YU Grupa. With YU Grupa he recorded commercially successful and critically acclaimed albums '' YU Grupa'' (1973), '' Kako to da svaki dan?'' (1974) and '' YU Grupa'' (1975), before leaving the group and forming Zebra in 1976. With Zebra he recorded the album ''Kažu da takav je red'' (''They Say That's the Way It Should Be'', 1979), on which he played drums and keyboards and sang. Zebra disbanded in 1979 due to lack of commercial and critical success of their only album. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flute
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, flutes are edge-blown aerophones. A musician who plays the flute is called a flautist or flutist. Paleolithic flutes with hand-bored holes are the earliest known identifiable musical instruments. A number of flutes dating to about 53,000 to 45,000 years ago have been found in the Swabian Jura region of present-day Germany, indicating a developed musical tradition from the earliest period of modern human presence in Europe.. Citation on p. 248. * While the oldest flutes currently known were found in Europe, Asia also has a long history with the instrument. A playable bone flute discovered in China is dated to about 9,000 years ago. The Americas also had an ancient flute culture, with instrumen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sitar
The sitar ( or ; ) is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument was invented in the 18th century, and arrived at its present form in 19th-century India. Khusrau Khan, an 18th-century figure of the Mughal Empire has been identified by modern scholarship as the inventor of the sitar. According to most historians, he developed the sitar from the setar, an Iranian instrument of Abbasid or Safavid origin. Used widely throughout the Indian subcontinent, the sitar became popularly known in the wider world through the works of Ravi Shankar, beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The advent of Psychedelia, psychedelic culture during the mid-to-late 1960s set a trend for the use of the sitar in popular music, sitar in Western popular music, with the instrument appearing on tracks by bands such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Metallica and many others. Etymology The word ''sitar'' is derived from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Nemeček
Robert Nemeček (Serbian Cyrillic: Роберт Немечек, 26 May 1949 – 9 January 2024) was a Serbian and Yugoslav musician, music producer, television editor, and organizer of events related to music. Nemeček started his musical career as a member of the progressive/psychedelic rock band Dogovor iz 1804. After the group ended its activity, Nemeček shortly played with one of the last lineups of Džentlmeni, before forming the progressive rock band Pop Mašina in 1972. The band achieved nationwide success, disbanding in 1978. In 1980, Nemeček, with other former members of Pop Mašina, formed the short-lasting but influential hard rock and heavy metal band Rok Mašina. After Rok Mašina disbanded in 1982, Nemeček retired from music. Nemeček started his career in the media in the late 1970s, as correspondent from London for Yugoslav magazines. He worked in Dadov Theatre as an editor of the theatre's rock concerts program, before becoming the film program editor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sloba Marković
Slobodan ( sr-Cyrl, Слободан) is a Serbo-Croatian masculine given name which means "free" (''sloboda'' / meaning "freedom, liberty") used among other South Slavs as well. It was coined by Serbian liberal politician Vladimir Jovanović who, inspired by John Stuart Mill's essay ''On Liberty'' baptised his son as Slobodan in 1869 and his daughter Pravda (Justice) in 1871. It became popular in both the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1945) and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945–1991) among various ethnic groups within Yugoslavia and therefore today there are also Slobodans among Croats, Slovenes and other Yugoslav peoples. During the decade after World War II, the name Slobodan (means "freedom") became the most popular Serbian male name, and it remained so until 1980. Common derived nicknames are Sloba, Slobo, Boban, Boba, Bobi and Čobi. The feminine counterpart is Slobodanka. A rare short form of the name Slobodan is Bodan, used sometimes in North Mace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
