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Srđan Marjanović
Srđan Marjanović ( sr-cyr, Срђан Марјановић) is a Serbian singer-songwriter from Belgrade. Musical career Early career Marjanović was born in 1952 in Banja Luka. In 1961, he moved to Belgrade, where he became interested in rock music. He played guitar in the bands Svici (''Fireflys''), Usamljeni (''The Lonely Ones'') and Gru. In 1971, he travelled to Sweden, where he performed songs by Donovan and Bob Dylan, accompanying himself with a guitar and a harmonica. 1972 and onwards Marjanović returned to Belgrade in 1972, and soon became a part of the Belgrade acoustic rock scene. At the time he also performed in the musical ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', played in Atelje 212, playing one of the priests. In 1973, at the Festival Omladina, he won the Jury Award for the song "Tražim" ("I Am Searching"). During the same year, he appeared at the Zagreb Festival with the song "Prvi put sretni" ("Happy for the First Time"). In 1974, at the Opatija Festival, he performed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banja Luka
Banja Luka ( sr-Cyrl, Бања Лука, ) or Banjaluka ( sr-Cyrl, Бањалука, ) is the List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the largest city in Republika Srpska. Banja Luka is the traditional centre of the densely forested Bosanska Krajina region of northwestern Bosnia (region), Bosnia. , the city proper has a population of 138,963, while its administrative area comprises a total of 185,042 inhabitants. The city is home to the University of Banja Luka and University Clinical Center of the Republika Srpska, as well as numerous entity and state institutions for Republika Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina, respectively. The city lies on the Vrbas (river), Vrbas river and is well known in the countries of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, former Yugoslavia for being full of tree-lined avenues, boulevards, gardens, and parks. Banja Luka was designated European city of sport in 2018. Name The name ''Banja Luka' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donovan
Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer. He emerged from the British folk scene in early 1965 and subsequently scored multiple international hit singles and albums during the late 1960s. Donovan discography, His work became emblematic of the flower power era with its blend of Folk music, folk, Pop music, pop, Psychedelic music, psychedelica and jazz stylings. Donovan first achieved recognition with live performances on the pop TV series ''Ready Steady Go!'' in 1965. Having signed with Pye Records that year, he recorded singles and two albums in the folk vein for Hickory Records, scoring three UK hit Single (music), singles: "Catch the Wind", "Colours (Donovan song), Colours" and "Universal Soldier (song), Universal Soldier", the last written by Buffy Sainte-Marie. He then signed to Epic Records, CBS/Epic in the US and became more successful internationally, beginning a long collaboration w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomaž Domicelj
Tomaž is the Slovene form of the male given name Thomas. People Bearers of these names include: * Tomaž Barada, Slovenian martial artist * Tomaž Čižman (born 1965), Slovenian alpine skier * Tomaž Humar (born 1969), Slovenian mountaineer * Tomaž Jemc (born 1964), Slovenian alpine skier * Anton Tomaž Linhart (1756–1795), Slovene playwright and historian * Tomaž Marušič (born 1932), Slovenian lawyer and politician * Tomaž Ocvirk, Slovenian handball coach * Tomaž Pengov, Slovenian guitar player *Tomaž Pirih (born 1981), Slovenian rower * Tomaž Pisanski (born 1949), Slovenian mathematician * Tomaž Razingar, Slovenian ice hockey player *Tomaž Šalamun Tomaž Šalamun (July 4, 1941 – December 27, 2014) was a Slovenian poet who was a leading figure of postwar neo-avant-garde poetry in Central EuropeColm Tóibín (2004The comet's trail The Guardian, Guardian and an internationally acclaimed Absu ... (born 1941), Slovenian poet See also * Sveti Tomaž (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivica Percl
Ivica is a Slavic masculine given name, a diminutive form of Ivan. The direct English equivalent of the name is Johnny, while the equivalent of its augmentative Ivan is John. It is one of the frequent male given names in Croatia, and is also present in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Croatia, the name Ivica became one of the most common masculine given name in the decades between 1950 and 1989, peaking at second most common 1970-1979. Ivica is also a common character in Croatian jokes, like Perica. In Slovenian, Ivica is both a masculine and feminine given name. Notable people named Ivica * Ivica Avramović, Serbian footballer * Ivica Dačić, Serbian politician, Prime Minister of Serbia * Ivica Dragutinović, Serbian footballer * Ivica Džidić, Croatian footballer * Ivica Grlić, Bosnian Croat footballer * Ivica Kostelić, Croatian alpine skier * Ivica Kralj, Montenegrin footballer * * Ivica Mornar, Croatian footballer * Ivica Olić, Croatian footballer * Ivica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drago Mlinarec (musician)
Drago Mlinarec (born 14 December 1942) is a Croatian rock musician who became known in the former Yugoslavia with popular progressive rock band Grupa 220. Life Mlinarec was born and grew up in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. During his formative years, Yugoslavia was under Tito's form of communism though it had open borders with the West. He has stated that his lyrics were inspired, at least in part, by the Noir films he had seen at the cinema. jetset.cro.net Work Besides playing in one of the most popular rock bands in Yugoslavia, , Mlinarec in the 1970s composed music for several theatre plays, TV shows, ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bora Đorđević
Borisav "Bora" Đorđević ( sr-Cyrl, Борисав, Бора Ђорђевић; 1 November 1952 – 4 September 2024), also known as Bora Čorba ( sr-Cyrl, Бора Чорба), was a Serbian singer-songwriter and poet. He was best known as the frontman of the rock band Riblja Čorba. Early life Čačak years Đorđević was born in Čačak in 1952 to machinist father Dragoljub and mother Nerandža, who taught Serbo-Croatian and Russian. At the age of thirteen, he formed his first band, Hermelini ("The Stoat, Ermines"), with Borko Ilić (lead guitar), Prvoslav Savić (rhythm guitar), and Aca Dimitrijević (drums). Đorđević played bass guitar, and the band's sound was influenced by the Zagreb-based Beat music, beat band . Two years later, Đorđević switched to rhythm guitar and began writing song lyrics and poetry. One of his earliest poems, "Moje tuge", would later be recorded as a song and released on the band Suncokret's debut single "Kara Mustafa" / "Moje tuge", as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft Machine
Soft Machine are an English Rock music, rock band from Canterbury, Kent. The band were formed in 1966 by Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen and Larry Nowlin. Soft Machine were central in the Canterbury scene; they became one of the first British psychedelic music, psychedelic acts, and later moved into progressive rock, progressive and jazz rock. In 1971, Soft Machine became a purely instrumental band. Soft Machine's lineup has undergone many changes, and has included Andy Summers, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, John Stanley Marshall, John Marshall, Karl Jenkins, Roy Babbington and Allan Holdsworth. , the current lineup consists of John Etheridge, Theo Travis, Fred Thelonious Baker and Asaf Sirkis. Though they achieved little commercial success, critics consider Soft Machine to have been influential in rock music. Dave Lynch at AllMusic called them "one of the most influential underground bands of their era". The band's name originates from William S. Burroughs's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7-inch Single
In music, a single is a type of release of a song recording of fewer tracks than an album ( LP), typically one or two tracks. A single can be released for sale to the public in a variety of physical or digital formats. Singles may be standalone tracks or connected to an artist's album, and in the latter case would often have at least one single release before the album itself, called lead singles. The single was defined in the mid-20th century with the ''45'' (named after its speed in revolutions per minute), a type of 7-inch sized vinyl record containing an A-side and a B-side, i.e. one song on each side. The single format was highly influential in pop music and the early days of rock and roll, and it was the format used for jukeboxes and preferred by younger populations in the 1950s and 1960s. Singles in digital form became very popular in the 2000s. Distinctions for what makes a ''single'' have become more tenuous since: the biggest digital music distributor, the iTune ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opatija
Opatija (; ; ) is a List of cities and towns in Croatia, town and a municipality in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in northwestern Croatia. The traditional seaside resort on the Kvarner Gulf is known for its Mediterranean climate and its historic buildings reminiscent of the Austrian Riviera. Geography Opatija is located northwest of the regional capital Rijeka, about from Trieste by rail and from Pula, Croatia, Pula by road. The city is geographically on the Istrian peninsula, though not in Istria County. The tourist resort is situated on the Kvarner Gulf, part of the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic coast, in a sheltered position at the foot of Učka massif, with the ''Vojak'' peak reaching at a height of . census, the municipality had 10,661 inhabitants in total, of which 5,715 lived in the urban settlement. The town is a popular summer and winter resort, with average high temperatures of 10 °C in winter, and 32 °C in summer. Opatija is surrounded by woods of bay laurel. T ... [...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] |
Festival Omladina
Festival Omladina (English: ''Youth Festival''), also known as Omladinski Festival, is a music festival held in Subotica, Serbia. The festival was founded in 1961 as a competition of young composers of popular music. Their compositions were initially performed by pop singers, but soon the performers of competing compositions became rock bands. In the 1970s, the non-competitive part, featuring established rock acts, was added to the program, and in the 1980s the festival became a competition of young rock bands. During the years, some of the most notable acts of the Popular music in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav pop and rock scene performed on the festival. In 1990, at the beginning of the breakup of Yugoslavia, the festival ceased to exist. In 2011 the festival anniversary was celebrated with a concert of famous acts who made their first steps on the festival, and in 2012 the festival was reestablished. 1961 The festival was founded by the members of Mla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atelje 212
Atelje 212 ( sr-Cyrl, Атеље 212) is a theatre located in Belgrade, Serbia. Established in 1956 on the premises of the '' Borba'' building in front of 212 chairs, its opening play was the staging of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's '' Faust'' directed by Mira Trailović. History Although the theater's official inauguration took place on 12 November 1956, various plays had already been staged throughout 1956 by the same group of individuals. The most notable such staging was the summer 1956 semi-clandestine performance of Samuel Beckett's ''Waiting for Godot''—a play that had been banned in all Communist countries—in front of some forty people on a ramshackle makeshift stage in painter Mića Popović's private atelier. The concealed performance came on the heels of a ''Godot'' staging in the Belgrade Drama Theatre (BDP)—that had been prepared by theater director Vasilije Popović with Ljuba Tadić, Rade Marković, Bata Paskaljević, Mića Tomić, and among the cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
