Zoran "Kiki" Lesendrić ( sr-Cyrl, Зоран "Кики" Лесендрић) is a

Serbian rock Serbian rock is the rock music scene of Serbia. During the 1960s, 1970s and the 1980s, while Serbia was a constituent republic of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Serbian rock scene was a part of the SFR Yugoslav rock scene. The Socia ...

musician, most notable as the founding member of the rock band

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Early career

With

he released a number of albums in the former

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in the

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and

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, with the final album released in 1996. He also composed hits for other musicians, most notably the hit "Kolačići" for Marina Perazić in 1987, and "Barakuda" for Viktorija in 1988. Recently he released his first solo album, ''Mesec na vratima'' ("Moon at the Door").

Later career

In 2011, he composed the music to two songs on

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's album ''

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''. The lyrics to the songs, "Valja se" and "Ćutim k'o stvar", were written by

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. From 2013 to 2015 Lesendrić was a judge on ''

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''.

Discography

With Piloti

Studio albums

* ''Piloti'' (

PGP RTB PGP-RTB (abbreviation for sr, Produkcija gramofonskih ploča Radio televizije Beograd) was a major state-owned record label and chain record store in the former SFR Yugoslavia, based in Belgrade, Socialist Republic of Serbia. After the breakup ...

, 1981) * ''Dvadeset godina'' (

, 1982) * ''Kao ptica na mom dlanu'' (

, 1987) * ''Osmeh letnje noći'' (

, 1988) * ''Neka te bog čuva za mene'' (

, 1990) * ''Zaboravljeni'' (

PGP RTS PGP-RTS ( sr, Produkcija gramofonskih ploča Radio televizije Srbije) is a major record label based in Belgrade, Serbia. It is a successor of PGP-RTB which was established in 1959 in Belgrade, then capital of Socialist Republic of Serbia and So ...

/ Komuna, 1993) * ''Dan koji prolazi zauvek'' ( Komuna, 1996) * ''Slučajno i zauvek'' (

City Records City Records (full legal name in Serbian: Предузеће за издавачко-пропагандну делатност City Records д.о.о. Београд/''Preduzeće za izdavačko-propagandnu delatnost City Records d.o.o. Beograd'') ...

, 2012)

Compilation albums

*''Najveći hitovi 1981–1991'' (

, 1991) *''Ne veruj u idole – Kompilacija'' (Bread Ventures Records, 1997)

With Dobrovoljno Pevačko Društvo

* '' Nedelja na Duhove'' (Eastfield music, 1995)

Solo works

* ''Mesec na vratima'' (Power music, 2008)

References

Official page

Exit Festival

Zoran Lesendrić at Disocogs

Kiki Lesendrić o muzici, albumu, planovima… govori za „Blic“ – Osamdesete se neće povratiti, ''Blic'', December 14, 2008
1961 births Living people Musicians from Belgrade Serbian rock guitarists Serbian rock singers Yugoslav rock singers 20th-century Serbian male singers Singers from Belgrade Yugoslav male singers {{Guitarist-stub