Nenad N. Bach (born 1954) is a Croatian American

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, composer, performer, producer and

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. He has performed with a wide range of artists, including Luciano Pavarotti, Bono &

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(U2), Brian Eno,

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and

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Biography

Born in

Zagreb, Croatia Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slov ...

, Bach graduated as a civil engineer from the

University of Rijeka The University of Rijeka ( hr, Sveučilište u Rijeci) is in the city of Rijeka, Croatia, with faculties in cities throughout the regions of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Primorje, Istria and Lika. The University of Rijeka is composed of eleven fa ...

. His band Vrijeme i Zemlja was formed while he was in college and had two Number 1 albums in Europe (''Vrijeme i Zemlja I'' in 1980 and ''Greatest Hits'' in 1988). Pavarotti & Friends 1995

Bach moved to New York in 1984, and recorded his first US album, "Greatest Hits" in 1987 with the track "You Need a Love" receiving a

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which would be played on MTV. He performed the song "Can We Go Higher?", written as a call for peace during the

war in Croatia The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY)—and the Serb-controlled Yugosl ...

and

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...

, at

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in the United States and in

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at the 1995 concert " Pavarotti & Friends" The song appears on the album " Pavarotti & Friends for the Children of Bosnia" (1996) and is featured on Bach's album "A Thousand Years of Peace". The album, engineered by John Holbrook, features guest artists Garth Hudson (The Band), Vince Welnick (Grateful Dead),

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, Michael York, Martin Sheen and others. In 1998 he collaborated on a compilation album with Bruce Springsteen,

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and others. In March 1999 Bach opened the

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in Europe. He scored the

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film ''

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'' (1998) the Croatian entry for Best Foreign Film in the 1999

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. ''Transatlantic'' had premiered the a year earlier in Croatian Film Festival in Pula where it won four Golden Arena Awards and was shown in the official program of the festival in Moscow in 1999, as well as in the official competition of the festival in Mar del Plata, and globally in other world class film festivals. He has also scored many features and short films, including ''King of Cool'', the biopic about the life of Steve McQueen which premiered on

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(AMC) at 10:00 PM March 31, 1998. Bach was a speaker at the TEDxZagreb conference held in Zagreb, Croatia on April 17, 2010. From 2012 to 2014 Nenad Bach served on the Artistic Board for the International Somobor Film Music Festival. Bach was diagnosed with

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, and stopped playing the guitar. He has credited taking up

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

for improving his condition and regaining the ability to play instruments. He is the founder and board member of Ping Pong Parkinson, a 501(c)(3) organization established in 2017 with the goal of using table tennis as a form of physical therapy for Parkinson's disease. Bach has been involved in the promotion of the inaugural ITTF Parkinson's World Table Tennis Championships, which was held in October 2019 in New York.

Nenad Bach Recent Discography

Produced "Everything is Forever" by Nenad Bach Band, NBM Ltd. 2015 Produced "All I Want Is Freedom" by Nenad Bach Band, NBM Ltd. 2010 Produced "Klapa Luka" by Klapa Luka, NBM Ltd. 2007 Produced "Dan Vičere" by Klapa Navalia, NBM Ltd 2007 Produced "Lipo Ime" by Klapa Sinj, NBM Ltd 2005 Produced "Klapa Fa Lindjo" by Klapa Fa Lindjo, NBM Ltd 2005 Re-released enhanced CD album; "A Thousand Years of Peace"/ NBM Ltd 2002 Recording Contract - performed on charity CD "We Are Family" 2001 Produced CD album "Following the Cross" by St. Stephen's Choir NBM Ltd 2000/ ARCANA 2002 Produced CD album "Novaljo, Novaljo" by Klapa Navalia NBM Ltd 2000 Produced CD album "Fire on the Sea" by Klapa Fortunal NBM Ltd/SIAM records 1999 Released enhanced CD album; "I Love Losers"/NBM Ltd 1996 Performance on "News Goo" compilation album with Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Allen Ginsberg and others Mercury/Polygram 1998 Performance on "Pavarotti and Friends" compilation album with Pavarotti, Bono, The Edge, Meatloaf,

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, The Jewish Historical Society of New Haven, 1998. (born February 26, 1953), known professio ...

and others Decca/London 1996 Single "Can We Go Higher?" Rockworld/Sony 1993 Single "Can We Go Higher?"

Croatia Records Croatia Records is the largest major record label in Croatia, based in Zagreb ( Dubrava). Summary Croatia Records d.d. is a joint-stock company currently led by the chief executive officer Želimir Babogredac, a notable sound engineer. It releases ...

1993

References

External links

NenadBachBand.com

NenadBach.com
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bach, Nenad Croatian composers Living people Musicians from Zagreb Croatian people of German descent Yugoslav emigrants to the United States 1954 births People with Parkinson's disease Croatian film score composers