Ivan "Ivica" Vdović ( sr-cyr, Иван "Ивица" Вдовић; 14 March 1961 – 25 September 1992), also known as Vd ( sr-cyr, Вд), was a
Serbia
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n musician,
drummer
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of
Yugoslav rock
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bands such as
Suncokret,
Šarlo Akrobata and
Katarina II.
In his junior year of high school, Vdović became a member of the band Limunovo drvo led by
Milan Mladenović.
He later played drums in
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 th ...
's band Suncokret which had two famous members
Bilja Krstić and
Gorica Popović. In the early 1980s he briefly played in Annoda Rouge band/project with
Goran Vejvoda and his then-girlfriend
Bebi Dol on vocals, and Slobodan Trbojevic on bass. The band never released any official material for commercial exploitation. Vdović became famous as the drummer of Šarlo Akrobata whose other two members were Mladenović and
Dušan Kojić.
He stayed with Šarlo Akrobata from April 1980 to October 1981, and then joined Mladenović to form Katarina II together with
Bojan Pečar,
Gagi Mihajlović and
Margita Stefanović. After Mihajlović left the band, the name was changed to Ekatarina Velika but Vdović soon left the band in 1985.
The same year, Vdović was
diagnosed to be
HIV-positive.
He was the first person in Yugoslavia to be officially registered as HIV-positive.
He died of
AIDS
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on 25 September 1992
and is buried in
Belgrade
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.
He is considered as one of the most important cultural reformers of music in
former Yugoslavia, and one of the starters of the
new wave.
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1961 births
1992 deaths
Musicians from Belgrade
Yugoslav musicians
Serbian rock drummers
Serbian punk rock musicians
Post-punk musicians
AIDS-related deaths in Serbia
20th-century drummers