Biography
Goran Bregovich is a popular European composer and a musician who became famous as the leader of Bijelo Dugme group, as well as the creation of soundtracks to the films of Emir Kusturica. Perhaps his most important hit is the song in the Death Car ("in the death car").Childhood and youth
Harran Bregovich's biography begins on March 22, 1950, when he was born in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). During one of the conversations with journalists, a man said about his father Fano, as a cold-blooded officer of the Yugoslav army, and about the mother - as an unusually beautiful woman, which is in the circle of loved ones, called Citz, although her boyfriend was called. Goran believes that he inherited nordic character from the Pope, and from Mom - perseverance.
Father has a Croatian, and mother - Bosnian roots. Based on these two facts, Bregovich concluded that by nationality he is Yugoslav, and it remains true to this conviction all his life.
Unfortunately, the joint life of Qice and Fano lasted long. When the musician was 10 years old, and prevail, his youngest brother, - 5, parents diverged. Little Goran stayed to live with her mother, and brother left to live to his father. Subsequently, Bregovich recorded the album "Alcohol", devoting him to his father, because the cause of the divorce was the addiction of a man to strong drinks.
Goran lived with his mother's boyfriend in Sarajevo, while his father and younger brother moved to the sieve. Fano worked there a barracks commandant. Despite the fact that the family was divided, the future composer visited the father and the younger brother every year.
As a child, Goran dreamed of becoming an artist, but the stories of the nurses of nurse are about the fact that one of the artistic gymnasium "Some Pederesses come," the mother plunged into shock. She banned the boy to come there. Instead, the son tried himself in music, but he was kicked out of a music school on the second year, arguing that he was the talentless and lazy.
Many have difficulties about the pronunciation of the name of the celebrity - emphasis in the name, and in the surname falls at the first syllable.
Personal life
In the youth, Goran was still the rock and rollschik. It is unlikely that someone will argue that a man is visible (height 182 cm), charismatic and talented, so that female attention was never deprived.In the 70s, the name of the popular musician did not go with the lanes of the tabloid due to the details of his personal life. At that time, he consisted in a romantic connection with the Serbian model Lily Tika. It was this girl that inspired the composer to create a Bitanga I Princeza song from the 1979 album of the same name. Later they broke up.
In the late 1980s, Goran with his girlfriend went on a world journey on a sailing boat. They crossed the Atlantic, sailed from Split (Croatia) to Barbados for 6 months. They walked along the African coast, through the Canary Islands. Bregovich told about it in one of the interviews, of course, the journalist asked where this girl is now. As it turned out, she became his wife.
Since 1993, a man is married to the Jianne Judjuk's mannequin. By nationality, she is Bosnik, by the religion of Muslim. They met in the 70s, at that time she was only 15 years old, and he was 27. Only the 90s managed to enter into marriage.
The spouses were born three children - AMA (1995), UNN (2001) and Lula (2004).
It is also known that Bregovich has a granddaughter, daughter of his extramarital daughter cheering. The girl was born in the times of turbulent youth Herran, when he had an affair with a dancer ash.
Most of the time the composer spends in Paris and Belgrade. Wife with children mostly lives in France, but he is in constant traffic.
Music
Although it did not work with the music school, Goran continued to be interested in music, and when he was 11 years old, the mother presented a guitar for the new year. The first chords of the boy taught Edo Sitran, the brother of the popular poet and the scriptwriter Abdula Cider.
Boring classes in a music school stayed behind. Now Goran daily devoted himself a playing guitar in the yard, learned new chords. He decided to create a musical team for the first time when he was in the 8th grade.
At the end of study at school, Goran decided to let go long hair, but for this he needed a blessing of the mother. He promised her that he would throw smoking and would be dealt with something. So the future musician entered the transport school, from where it flew out due to bad behavior.
Having learned about the misconduct of the Son (he broke "Mercedes" belonging to the educational institution), the mother was in anger. She burst into the concert of Bregovich when he played with the IzoHipse group, and in the middle of the concert, he shrugged him with a savory ground.
However, later I softened, I went to concessions and gave the guitar about which I was so dreamed of Goran. The young musician began to play in the group "Bezti", where Zelko Bebek noted him. He suggested Harran to join the Codex team.
In the late 70s, the group with varying success performed in Naples, but later broke up. Mother took Harran back to Sarajevo. In 1971, he entered the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, but stopped studying at the 4th course.
1970 became the key in the career of Harran Bregovich. He first tried himself as a composer, organizing the ARNAutalich group by the group Jutro under the patronage of Ismet. The first singles were recorded after 2 years. Despite the fact that the team developed, her "ideologist" Ismet was dissatisfied with the musical style of the collective. He left, taking a name with him.
The guys thought for a long time over the new name and on January 1, 1974 he died her Bijelo Dugme, which means in the translation of the "white button". Just as part of this team, Goran Bregovich became famous and popular. For 10 years, the group recorded 9 albums, removed several clips.
International popularity came to Bregovich after the release of films Emir Kusturica, for whom the musician wrote music ("Anderong", "Time Gypsy", "Arizona Dream" with the participation of Iggy Pop). Soundtracks to film were so popular that they went out. Among the loved tracks, such songs as Ederlezi, Tango, Pjesma, Talijanska were listed. Later, some of them were used in the Kinine "Borat".
Another big project in the movie was the work of Patrice Shero "Queen Margo". The picture had an incredible success in the audience and film critics. The film received two awards at the Cannes Festival.
Bregovich creates and executes songs in such an unusual genre that there are no indifferent listeners. This is the connection of the elements of the Balkan and Gypsy traditional music in combination with wind instruments, bass and bits. Hits "Disco-Partizans", MahalageAska, Kalasnjikov are sounded at the concerts of Harran. These compositions have no one decades.
Goran Bregovich cooperates with other performers. So, for many years, his friend and colleague becomes the singer Heads and Cholic. In 1975, the composer wrote two hits for the artist, which entered the album Ti I JA. Later, the musicians created the Kamarad label, on which Bregovich worked as a producer and arranger.
After the collapse of the White Button group in the 90s and to date, the musician protrudes with other artists, tours in the composition of different collectives. In 1997, he recorded an album with the Turkish singer Seasy Aksu, in 2000 released a joint record with the Polish singer Kayei.
In 2010, it was Goran that made a composer of the song that Milan Stankovich sang from Serbia on Eurovision. 2 years before, Bregovich became a guest of an international competition, when the event took place in Belgrade. On the main scene of the city during the final, the artist gave a small concert.
In 2014, the musician came to Ukraine, took part in the shooting of the humorous show "95 Quarter", where he performed the song Bella Ciao and even played one of the roles in the episode.
In the same period, during the tour in Moscow, Goran visited the Studio of the ProjectorParisHilton program. Later, the artist visited the air Comedy Club and at the TV show Ivan Urgant. By the way, he often arrives in Russia, he really love him here, a man regularly gives concerts that are underway with the manshlag. In 2015, the star of Balkan music in the Crimea took place. Goran is convinced that the artist should be higher policies, so always goes on the stage where he is waiting for him.
At the same time, Bregovich with the Gypsy wedding-funeral orchestra performed as part of the Bolshoi Balkan concert in the Kremlin. The musical team accompanies the composer for many years. The orchestra includes from 10 to 37 people, depending on the program. In 2017, the Master's discography was replenished with Three Letters from Sarajevo album ("Three letters from Sarajevo"). The planing of the composer devoted to his native city.
Bregovich has long been and with pleasure, he struggles around the world, he even drove to New Zealand and Hong Kong. And in 2018 he visited Georgia, where he made a concert in Tbilisi to the Georgian day of love on April 15. His touring tour is scheduled for half a year and ahead. The actual poster with the upcoming concerts is posted on the official website of the musician.
Does not forget the composer and about Russia. In 2019, Goran became the hero of the musical transmission of the "apartment at Margulisa", where he gave a watch concert.
Goran Bregovich now
Now the creative life of Bregovich is no less active and interesting than a few decades ago. In 2019, he became a member of the UNICEF EUROPE & Central Asia Forum, where the problems of the younger generation were discussed. About this musician reported from his page in "Instagram". Here, in the composer account, photos taken at his concerts appear.In the same year, a re-performance of Harran in the Crimea took place, and on New Year's Eve the musician was already in Yerevan.
In February 2020, Bregovich gave another concert in Moscow. In the capital of Russia, he brought a concert program consisting of musical numbers - soundtracks to the film Kusturica "Underground". The speech of Master took place in the "headlub Green Concert".
Discography
- 1990 - Dom Za Vesanje
- 1993 - Arizona Dream
- 1994 - La Reine Margot
- 1995 - Underground.
- 1997 - Silence of the Balkans
- 2007 - Karmen With a Happy End
- 2008 - Alkohol: Šljivovica
- 2009 - Mustafa.
- 2017 - Three Letters from Sarajevo