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Idoli
Idoli ( sr-cyr, Идоли; trans. The Idols) were a Serbian new wave band from Belgrade. They are considered to be one of the most notable acts of the Yugoslav rock scene, and their 1982 album ''Odbrana i poslednji dani'' was on several occasions voted by the music critics as the greatest Yugoslav rock album. History Merlin and Zvuk Ulice The roots of Idoli can be found in a band called Merlin (not to be confused with the Sarajevo pop rock band of the same name) and then Zvuk Ulice consisting of Vlada Divljan on guitar and vocals, bassist Zdenko Kolar, keyboard player Dragan Mitrić, drummer Kokan Popović, Bora Antić on saxophone and Dragana Milković on piano and vocals. The band played a combination of jazz and pop rock. Besides performing cover versions of notable foreign bands from the sixties, the band wrote their own songs. In 1978, the band performed at the Novi Sad BOOM Festival and at the Zaječar Gitarijada feastival. Even though the band had several recordi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlada Divljan
Vladimir "Vlada" Divljan ( sr-Cyrl, Владимир "Влада" Дивљан; 10 May 1958 – 4 March 2015), was a Serbian singer and songwriter. He was known as the frontman of the Serbian and Yugoslav rock band Idoli, one of the bands which initiated the Yugoslav new wave on the music and cultural scene of Yugoslavia in the 1980s, as well as for his solo works. Early career Early activity Divljan got interested in music in 1968, after a Drago Diklić concert in Tučepi, a seaside resort where he went on a holiday with his family. After coming back to Belgrade he asked Zdenko Kolar and Boža Jovanović, two of his friends and neighbors, to form a band. The first instrument Divljan played was a small mandolin because he was a fan of Dubrovački trubaduri. Later he got a guitar, Kolar bought a bass and Boža Jovanović used a tin barrel as a drum with metal sticks made by Kolar's father. The band was called Faraoni (Pharaohs) since Divljan had a necklace from Egypt, given by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Divljan
Vladimir "Vlada" Divljan ( sr-Cyrl, Владимир "Влада" Дивљан; 10 May 1958 – 4 March 2015), was a Serbian singer and songwriter. He was known as the frontman of the Serbian and Yugoslav rock band Idoli, one of the bands which initiated the Yugoslav new wave on the music and cultural scene of Yugoslavia in the 1980s, as well as for his solo works. Early career Early activity Divljan got interested in music in 1968, after a Drago Diklić concert in Tučepi, a seaside resort where he went on a holiday with his family. After coming back to Belgrade he asked Zdenko Kolar and Boža Jovanović, two of his friends and neighbors, to form a band. The first instrument Divljan played was a small mandolin because he was a fan of Dubrovački trubaduri. Later he got a guitar, Kolar bought a bass and Boža Jovanović used a tin barrel as a drum with metal sticks made by Kolar's father. The band was called Faraoni (Pharaohs) since Divljan had a necklace from Egypt, given by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odbrana I Poslednji Dani
''Odbrana i poslednji dani'' ( sr-Cyrl, Одбрана и последњи дани; trans. ''The Defense and the Last Days'') is the first studio album by Yugoslav new wave band Idoli released in 1982. ''Džuboks'' magazine critics voted the album the greatest Yugoslav rock album of the 20th century in 1985. The album was polled in 1998 as Yugoslav greatest popular music album in the book '' YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike'' (''YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music''). In 2015, ''Odbrana i poslednji dani'' was polled the greatest Yugoslav rock album in the special edition of Croatian ''Rolling Stone''. Overview The band started recording their first long play album during autumn 1981. The record was originally supposed to be produced by the band members themselves with the assistance of Dušan "Spira" Mihajlović, however, Mihajlović soon left the recording sessions, so the album recordings were produced only with help from Mile "Pil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nebojša Krstić
Nebojša Krstić ( sr-cyrl, Небојша Крстић; born 9 July 1957) is a Serbian media personality, political commentator, former musician (VIS Idoli) and physician. He is also a former public relations advisor to the office of the President of Serbia, appointed by Boris Tadić. Currently, Krstić is a strong supporter of the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party. Biography Krstić matriculated from the First Belgrade Gymnasium and then obtained a university degree at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Medicine. In 1985 he appeared in the film, ''Šest dana juna''. After finishing his studies, he worked in medicine for a decade, finding employment as a physician in several medical institutions including those on the island of Vis and Hyatt Regency hotel in Belgrade. After that, he began working in marketing, becoming director of the Nova, Young & Rubicam marketing agency. Musical career VIS Dečaci In late 1979, Srđan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdenko Kolar
Zdenko Kolar ( sr-cyr, Зденко Колар) is a Serbian bass guitarist, most notable as the member of Idoli and Zona B. Biography Kolar was born in Zemun in 1956 where he lived until 1963 when he moved to inner town in Belgrade. He moved to a building where two of his future bandmates lived, Vlada Divljan and Boža Jovanović. In an interview Kolar noted that Divljan was the first boy he had met in his new neighborhood on the day his family was moving in. First musical steps In 1968 Divljan decided to take up playing and so did Kolar. Divljan managed to get a mandolin and later bought a guitar while Kolar got his first guitar by getting a vacuum cleaner on a newspaper lottery. His parents sold the vacuum cleaner and bought him a guitar. The two started learning how to play while watching others play in their neighborhood at the places where the young were gathering. Later they went to a guitar course at RU "Braća Stamenković" held by professor Branko Perišić. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boža Jovanović
Boža Jovanović was the first drummer of the Serbian rock band Idoli. He was the band member until 1982 and released two singles and one EP with the band. Biography Jovanović has lived in Belgrade in the same apartment building where Vlada Divljan and Zdenko Kolar lived. The three made a deal to start playing. Divljan got a guitar, Kolar bought a bass and Boža Jovanović used a tin barrel as a drum with metal sticks made by Kolar's father. The band was called Faraoni (Pharaohs) since Divljan had a necklace from Egypt, given by his grandmother, with a Tutankhamun medallion. Since there was a popular band from Kopar named Faraoni, the band was renamed to Holipe. The band lasted for a short time. When Dečaci decided to start playing Divljan called Kolar and Jovanović to join the band. At the time the band was working with Dragan Papić, photographer and journalist, who became the band's creative mediator and who published Dečaci photos in a well known youth magazine "Vidi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kokan Popović
Slobodan "Kokan" Popović is a Serbian drummer notable for playing in bands Idoli and Propaganda. Biography Getting interested in music, first bands Popović was born in Belgrade and lived at Alekse Nenadovica street connecting "Slavija" and "Metropol" hotel, inhabited by people from highest social positions, such as lawyers, politicians, musicians, sportsman, etc., to the lowest, such as prostitutes, drug dealers, thieves, etc. In his early youth he brought some LP compilations of Opatija festivals and played them while using a wooden cigarette box as a drum and after hearing The Who's album A Quick One, he decided to become a drummer. His real drum practices started after moving to Bombay with his father (then being in Yugoslavian Foreign Services), Dejan and mother Božica (sister Dubravka - stood in Belgrade) where he, for the first time, had the chance to practice on a real drum set. His first live appearance was at a Bombay college anniversary. On return to Belgrade P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Srđan Šaper
Srđan Šaper ( sr-cyr, Срђан Шапер; born October 9, 1958) is a founder of I&F McCann Grupa. He is also well known as a founder and a member of the Yugoslav new wave band Idoli in the 1980s.P. Janjatović, Idoli, YU rock enciklopedija 1960-1967, Beograd, 1998. Biography In March 1979, with friends Krstić and Vlada Divljan, 20-year-old Šaper formed Idoli, a new wave band that quickly became popular throughout SFR Yugoslavia. In the following years, I&F McCann Grupa established agencies in other countries in the Balkan region, and today the group operates in twelve countries of South East Europe and Nordic region. Srđan Šaper is the owner of the Novembar art gallery in Belgrade. He is also the author of the original idea for the TV series BESA. He had been identified as one of two dozen Serbian citizens mentioned in the Panama Papers. Musical career VIS Dečaci and Idoli Šaper became interested in forming a musical group with his friend Nebojša Krstić an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branko Isaković
Branko Isaković (born June 24, 1958) is a Serbian bass player, producer and composer of Balkan ambient beat. After a long career in pop, rock, and ethno bands he launched his ''Divine Sound'' project with healing music. Biography Isaković was born in Valjevo in 1958 and moved to Belgrade in 1961. His first interest in music came about 1970 when his school friend, today well known guitar player and producer Dušan "Duda" Bezuha needed a rhythm guitarist for his rhythm and blues band. Having finished high school Isaković joined the acoustic rock band Suncokret as a replacement for Bata Sokić who went to serve the army. Isaković left the band in 1978. With former Tilt members Dejan Cukić (vocals) and Predrag Jakovljević (guitar), guitarist Nenad Stamatović and composer and keyboard player Dragan Mitrić, Isaković formed Bulevar. After Bulevar disbanded Isaković went to Idoli, as a replacement for Zdenko Kolar who went to serve the Yugoslav People's Army, the band was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Propaganda (Serbian Band)
Propaganda ( sr-cyr, Пропаганда) was a Yugoslav new wave band formed in Belgrade in 1981. Formed by former Zvuk Ulice and Bulevar members, Propaganda released only one album, ''Apatija javnosti'', and disbanded. After the group ended its acitivty, Propaganda guitarist and vocalist Kokan Popović continued his career with the band Idoli, where he was soon joined by Propaganda bass guitarist Branko Isaković. Despite being short-lived, Propaganda was a prominent act of the Yugoslav new wave scene. History Zvuk Ulice The roots of Propaganda can be found in the mid-1970s band called Zvuk Ulice (''Sound of the Street''). Zvuk Ulice was formed in 1976 by Vlada Divljan (guitar, vocalis), Zdenko Kolar (bass guitar), Kokan Popović (drums), Dragan Mitrić (keyboards), Bora Antić (saxophone) and Dragana Milković (piano, vocals). At first Divljan only played the guitar and later also did vocals. The band performed cover versions of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apartchiks
Apartchiks were an electronic–experimental duo featuring former Idoli frontman Vlada Divljan and former Leb i Sol keyboardist Kiril Džajkovski, both living in Australia during the late nineties when the band existed. After releasing one EP and one long-play album, the two continued working on their solo projects. History Former Idoli frontman Vlada Divljan moved to Australia in August 1991. He worked with local bands and soon started working on a local Serbian radio station. During the mid-nineties he had already established himself as an expert on soundtrack composing, mainly working with electronic music. At about the same time former Leb i Sol member Kiril Džajkovski moved to Australia and released an EP ''Synthetic Theatre'' through AG records. In January 1997, the two started working together on a project called Apartchicks and the first release was ''Dekada'' (Decade) featuring four tracks of sampled speeches of Slobodan Milošević combined with electronic music and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dobrovoljno Pevačko Društvo
Dobrovoljno Pevačko Društvo was a Serbian supergroup consisting of former Idoli members Nebojša Krstić and Srđan Šaper and Piloti frontman Kiki Lesendrić. The band released only one album and disbanded. History Idoli members Nebojša Krstić (drum loops, vocals) and Srđan Šaper (vocals) started working with Kiki Lesendrić (guitar) in 1994 and preparing music for an album. The recording took place in Budapest in the Utopia Studio during early 1995. Beside the three, as guest appeared Nenad Stefanović "Japanac" (bass guitar and guitar), Milan Đurđević (Neverne Bebe leader, keyboards), Istvan Alapi (guitar) and Zoltan Hetenyi (drums). Backing vocals were done by Aleksandra and Kristina Kovač. The arrangements and production were done by Lesendrić. The album was released by Eastfield Music under the name '' Nedelja na Duhove''. Promotional video was recorded for the track "Čekaj me". Even though the album was commercially successful, the band ceased to exist. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |