Nenad Radulović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Радуловић; 13 September 1959 – 12 February 1990) was a Serbian rock musician, best known as the frontman of the Yugoslav pop rock band

Poslednja Igra Leptira Poslednja Igra Leptira ( sr-cyr, Последња Игра Лептира; trans. ''Last Dance of a Butterfly'') was a Yugoslav and Serbian pop rock band from Belgrade. Biography The band was formed by Nenad "Neša" Radulović in 1979."EX YU ROCK ...

Biography

Radulović started his career as the singer and the leader of the pop rock band

(''Last Dance Of Butterfly'') in 1979."EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960–2006", Janjatović Petar; The band released well-accepted albums ''Napokon ploča'' (''At Last, a Record''; 1982), ''Ponovo ploča & druge priče'' (''Another Record & Other Stories''; 1983), ''Opet ploča – Srce od meda'' (''Again, a Record – Heart Made of Honey''; 1985), ''Grudi moje balkanske'' (''My

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Heart''; 1986) and ''Zajedno smo piškili u pesku'' (''We Peed in the Sand Together''; 1987) before disbanding in 1989. During the same year, Radulović released his only solo album ''Niko nema što piton imade'' (''Nobody Has what the Python Has''), produced by Srđan Marjanović, which

parodied A parody, also known as a spoof, a satire, a send-up, a take-off, a lampoon, a play on (something), or a caricature, is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satiric or ironic imitation. Often its subj ...

" Turbo-folk music".

Death and legacy

He started working on the new album, but managed to record only the song "Modra bajka" ("Blue Fairytale") before he died of testicular cancer on 12 February 1990. When his brother asked him how he felt twenty minutes before he passed away, his last words are said to have been: "Well, it's not like I can play football now, but I'm good...". The song, Modra bajka, was released for the first time on the Poslednja Igra Leptira compilation album ''Modra bajka – Best of'' (1997). In December 2011, a plateau in

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was named after Radulović. In October 2012, a

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in memory of Radulović was unveiled in Lajkovac."Spomen ploča Neši Leptiru u Lajkovcu", timemachinemusic.org

Discography

Poslednja Igra Leptira

Studio albums

*''Napokon ploča'' (1982) *''Ponovo ploča & druge priče'' (1983) *''Opet ploča – Srce od meda'' (1985) *''Grudi moje balkanske'' (1986) *''Zajedno smo piškili u pesku'' (1987)

Compilations

*''Modra bajka – Best of'' (1997)

Solo

Studio albums

*''Niko nema što piton imade'' (1989)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Radulovic, Nenad 1959 births 1990 deaths Singers from Belgrade Serbian rock singers Serbian pop singers 20th-century Serbian male singers Yugoslav male singers Yugoslav rock singers Deaths from cancer in Serbia Deaths from testicular cancer