Goran Bregovic

Goran Bregovic is a popular European composer and musician who is famous for his work as the leader of the group "Bijelo Dugme" as well as the creation of soundtracks for films by Emir Kusturica. Perhaps his biggest hit is "In the Death Car."

The biography of Goran Bregovic begins on March 22, 1950, when he was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. During one of the conversations with journalists, he described his father Franjo as a cold-blooded officer of the Yugoslav Army, and his mother as an unusually beautiful woman, who was called "Tsitsa" among her relatives, even though her name was Borka. Goran believes that he inherited a Nordic character from his father, and perseverance from his mother.

Goran's father is Croatian and his mother has Bosnian roots. On the basis of these two facts, Bregovic concluded that he was Yugoslav by nationality and remained faithful to this belief all his life.

Unfortunately, the life together of "Tsizi" and Franjo did not last long - when the musician was ten years old, and Predrag, his younger brother, five, parents separated. Little Goran stayed with his mother, and his brother went to live with his father. In the future, Goran Bregovic will write the album "Alcohol", dedicating it to his father, because the reason for the divorce was the man's addiction to strong drinks.

Goran lived with his mother Borka in Sarajevo, while his father and younger brother moved to Livno. There the musician's father worked as a commandant of the barracks. Despite the fact that the family was divided, Goran visited his father and younger brother every year.

As a child, the future composer dreamed of becoming an artist, but the stories of the aunt-nurse that from the art gymnasium "come only pederasts", plunged Goran's mother into shock. She forbade the boy to go there. Instead, Goran tried his hand at music - he was kicked out of music school in the second year, arguing that he was talentless and lazy.

Many people have difficulty in pronouncing his name - the accent in the name, and in the last name falls on the first syllable.

Although the music school did not work, Goran continued to be interested in music, and when he was 11, his mother gave the boy a guitar for the New Year. The first chords of the guy edo Sidran, brother of the popular poet and screenwriter Abdul Sidran.

Boring classes in the music school were left behind - now Goran devoted himself daily to playing the guitar in the yard, learning new chords. He decided to create a musical group for the first time when he was in the eighth grade.

At the end of his studies at school, Goran decided to let go of his long hair, but for this he needed his mother's blessing. He promised her that he would quit smoking and finally do something worthwhile. So the future musician entered the transport school, from where he flew out because of bad behavior.

Upon learning of her son's misconduct (he crashed a Mercedes belonging to a school facility), her mother was angry - she broke into Goran's concert when he was playing with the band Izohipse, and in the middle of the concert she smacked him with a savoury snulace.

However, later she relented, made concessions and gave the guitar that Goran dreamed of. The young musician began to play in the band "Beshtier" where he is noticed by Jeljko Bebek. He invited Goran to play in the Group Codex.

In the late 1970s, the band performed in Naples with varying success, but later disbanded. His mother takes Goran back to Sarajevo. In 1971 he entered the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, but dropped out of the 4th year.

1970 was a key year in Goran Bregovic's career. He first tried himself as a composer, organizing the band Jutro under the patronage of Ismet Arnautalic. The first singles were recorded two years later. Despite the fact that the band developed, its "ideologist" Ismet was dissatisfied with the musical style of the band. He leaves, taking with him the name of the group.

The guys thought about the new name for a long time, but on January 1, 1974 they finally dubbed it the legendary name "Bijelo dugme", which means "White Button". It was within this group that Goran Bregovic became famous and popular. In ten years, the band recorded 9 albums, shot several music videos.

International popularity came to Bregovic after the release of films by Emir Kusturica, for which the musician wrote music ("Underground", "Gypsy Time", "Arizona Dream" (with the participation of Iggy Pop).

Another big project in the cinema was the work of Patrice Shero "The queen Margot." The film was an incredible success for the audience and film critics. The film won two awards at the Cannes Film Festival.

He creates and performs songs in such an unusual genre of music that there are no indifferent listeners. It is a combination of elements of Balkan and gypsy traditional music combined with wind instruments, basses and bits.

After the break-up of the band in the 90s and to this day the musician performs with other artists, touring with different bands. In 1997, Bregovic recorded an album with Turkish singer Sezen Aksu, and in 2000 he released a joint album with Polish singer Kaya. And in 2010, it was Goran who performed the composer of the song sung by Milan Stankovic from Serbia at the Eurovision Song Contest.

In 2014, the musician came to Ukraine, took part in the filming of the humorous show "95 quarter", where he performed the song "Bella Chao" and even played one of the roles in the episode.

In 2015, Goran visited Moscow, where he visited the Comedy Club. There he and his ensemble opened a show of incendiary Balkan song. By the way, he often comes to Russia, he is really loved here, he regularly gives concerts that take place at a sold-out.

At the same time, Bregovic performed with the Gypsy Wedding and Funeral Orchestra as part of the Great Balkan Concert in the Kremlin.

In his youth, he was still that rock 'n' rollman. Hardly anyone will argue that he is a prominent man (height - 182 cm), charismatic and talented. So the women's attention was never deprived. For example, in the late 80's he and his girlfriend went on a round-the-world trip by sailing boat. They crossed the Atlantic and sailed from Split (Croatia) to Barbados in six months. We walked along the African coast, through the Canary Islands. He said this in an interview, of course, the journalist asked where this girl is now. As it turned out, she became his wife.

He has been married to model Jenane Sujuca since 1993. They met back in the 70s, at the time she was only 15 years old, and he is 27. They managed to get married only in the 90s.

They had three children: Ema (born 1995), Una (born 2001) and Lula (born 2004).

It is also known that Bregovic has a granddaughter, the daughter of his illegitimate daughter, Jelka. The girl was born during Goran's turbulent youth, when he had an affair with the dancer Ashenka.

Most of the time the composer and musician spends in Paris and Belgrade. Wife with children mostly lives in France, but he is on constant trips.

Bregovic has long been happy to travel the world, he even reached New zealand and Hong Kong. He regularly visits the maestro and Russia, which is not indifferent to him. In March 2018, Bregovic visited Russia again and gave a concert on the stage of the HeadClub Green Concert.

And in 2018 he visited Georgia, where he performed a concert in Tbilisi on georgian Love Day on April 15. In general, his tour is scheduled for six months or a year in advance. The current poster with upcoming concerts is posted on the official website of the musician.

1990 – «Dom za vesanje» 1993 – «Arizona dream» 1994 – «La reine Margot» 1995 – «Underground» 1997 – «Silence of the Balkans» 2002 – «Tales and songs from weddings and funerals» 2007 – «Karmen with a happy end» 2008 – «Alkohol: Šljivovica» 2009 – «Mustafa» 2010 – «Alkohol: Champagne» 2012 – «Alkohol: Champagne for Gypsies'» 2017 – «Three letters from Sarajevo»

1988 - "Gypsy Time" (director: Emir Kusturica) 1993 - "The Arizona Dream" (director: Emir Kusturica) 1994 - "The Margot queen" (directed by Patrice Shero) 1995 - "Underground" (director: Emir Kusturica) 1997 - "A Thousand and One Recipes of a Loving Cook" (directed by Nana Giorgadze) 1998 - "The Train of Life" (director: Radu Mikhailyanu) 2000 - "Summer, or 27 Lost Kisses" (director: Nana Giorgadze) 2004 - "Turkish Gambit" (directed by Janik Faizyev) 2004 - "Life as a Miracle" (director: Emir Kusturica) 2006 - "Borat" (directed by Larry Charles) 2008 - "Mustafa" (directed by Jan Dundar)

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