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Infobox musical artist | name = Goran Bregovic| image = Brega7-large.jpg| alt =| caption =| image_size =| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name =| alias = Brega| birth_date = Birth date and age|1950|03|22| death_date =| origin = Sarajevo , SR Bosnia and Herzegovina , SFR Yugoslavia | Nationality = flagicon|SRB Serbian | instrument = Guitar , Singing|Vocals , Bass (guitar)|Bass | genre =| occupation = guitarist, composer, band leader| years_active = 1969–| label =| associated_acts = Kodeksi , Jutro , Bijelo Dugme | website = http://www.goranbregovic.rs/ www.goranbregovic.rs| notable_instruments = Goran Bregovic ( Serbian Cyrillic : ????? ????????, IPA-sh|g??ran br?^?g??it?|pron, born 22 March 1950 in Sarajevo , SR Bosnia and Herzegovina , SFR Yugoslavia ) is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composer s of the Balkans . He currently splits his time between Paris and Belgrade , where he settled down during the Yugoslav Wars . http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hk5bdDmkh9HpxSl-ID9M1gWzvchw Balkan musician Bregovic 'injures spine in tree fall', AFP, June 12, 2008 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/musicnightlife/2009359880_bregovic21.html Goran Bregovic bringing his musical feast to Seattle's Moore Theatre, The Seattle Times, June 21, 2009
Bregovic has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora . He rose to fame playing guitar with his rock band Bijelo dugme . Among his better known scores are Emir Kusturica ’s films ( Time of the Gypsies , Arizona Dream , Underground (1995 film)|Underground ).
Musical style
Bregovic’s compositions, extending Balkan musical inspirations to innovative extremes, draw upon European classicism and Balkan rhythms.Lincoln Center Festival website
Bregovic's music carries Serbian music|Serbian , Bosnian music|Bosnian , Croatian music|Croatian , Bulgarian music|Bulgarian , Greek music|Greek and Romani music|Romani themes (in that order) and is a fusion of popular music with traditional Polyphony|polyphonic music from the Balkans, tango music|tango and Balkan Brass Band|brass band s.
Early life and career
Bregovic was born in Sarajevo , SR Bosnia and Herzegovina , SFR Yugoslavia , to a Serbian mother and Croatian father. http://www.goranbregovic.rs/biography.html His father was an officer in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). When his parents divorced he remained living with his mother in Sarajevo.
Goran played violin in a music school . However, deemed untalented, he was thrown out during second grade. His musical education was thus reduced to what his friend taught him until Goran's mother bought him his first guitar in his early teens. Bregovic wanted to enroll in a fine art s high school, but his aunt told his mother that it was supposedly full of homosexuals, which precipitated his mother's decision to send him to a technical (traffic) school. As a compromise for not getting his way, she allowed him to grow his hair long. Upon entering high school, Goran joined the school band " Izohipse " where he began on bass guitar . Soon, however, he was kicked out of that school too (this time for misbehaviour - he crashed a school-owned Mercedes-Benz ). Bregovic then entered grammar school and its school band " Beštije " (again as a bass guitar player). When he was 16, his mother left him and moved to the coast, meaning that other than having a few relatives to rely on, he mostly had to take care of himself. He did that by playing folk music in a kafana in Konjic , working on construction sites, and selling newspapers.
Spotting him at a Beštije gig in 1969, Željko Bebek invited 18-year-old Bregovic to play bass guitar in his band Kodeksi , which Goran gladly accepted.
main|Kodeksi Eventually, Kodeksi shifted setup so Goran moved from bass guitar|bass to lead guitar , resulting in Kodeksi having the following line-up during summer 1970: Goran Bregovic, Željko Bebek, Zoran Redžic and Milic Vukašinovic . All of them would eventually become members of Bijelo dugme at some point in the future. At the time, they were largely influenced by Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath . During the fall of 1970, this resulted in departure of Željko Bebek, who (both as rhythm guitar player and singer ) got phased out of the band. At the end of the year, Goran's mother and Zoran's brother arrived to Naples and took them back to Sarajevo .
Then in the autumn of 1971, Goran entered university and decided to study philosophy and sociology . He soon quit, however. At the same time, Milic Vukašinovic left for London , so Goran and Zoran started playing in a band named Jutro ("Morning"). In the next few years, the band changed lineups frequently, and on 1 January 1974 changed its name to Bijelo dugme ("White Button").
Bijelo dugme
main|Bijelo dugme Bregovic played lead guitar and composed most of the music for the rock group Bijelo dugme ( White Button ). They were one of the most popular bands in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|SFR Yugoslavia right from their arrival on the scene in 1974 until their folding in 1989.
After Bijelo dugme
At the time Bijelo dugme was falling apart, Goran entered the world of Film score|film music . His first project was Emir Kusturica 's Time of the Gypsies (1989). This turned out to be a great success (both the film and the music from it). Goran and Emir's collaboration continued, and Goran composed music (which was performed by Iggy Pop ) for Emir's next film Arizona Dream (1993).During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina Goran lived in Paris but he also lived in Belgrade. His next major project, music for Patrice Chéreau 's La Reine Margot (1994 film)|Queen Margot was again a great success, and the film won two awards on the 1994 Cannes Film Festival . Next year's Palme d'Or|Golden Palm went to Underground (1995 film)|Underground , for which Goran Bregovic composed the music.
In 1997, he worked with Turkish singer Sezen Aksu on her album Dügün ve Cenaze ( Wedding and Funeral ). After that album, he continued making composite albums with other musicians that were based on his music and singers' lyrics.
He made an album with George Dalaras in 1999 named Thessaloniki - Yannena with Two CanvasShoes . In the same year, Bregovic recorded an album called Kayah i Bregovic (Kayah and Bregovic) with popular Poland|Polish singer Kayah (singer)|Kayah which sold over 650,000 copies in Poland (six times platinum record).
In 2001, he recorded another album with another Polish singer, Krzysztof Krawczyk (singer)|Krzysztof Krawczyk , titled "Daj mi drugie zycie" ("Give Me Second Life").
In 2005, Bregovic took part in three large farewell concerts of Bijelo dugme.
A number of works by Bregovic can be heard on the soundtrack to the 2006 film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make BenefitGlorious Nation of Kazakhstan , most notably "Đurdevdan." The film itself actually features more Bregovic samples than the soundtrack.
Weddings and Funerals Orchestra
Bregovic performs with a large ensemble of musicians. A brass band, bagpipes, a string ensemble, a tuxedo-clad all-male choir from Belgrade , and traditional Bulgaria n and Romani people|Roma singers make up his 40-piece band and orchestra.
Since 1998, Bregovic has been performing his music mainly in the form of concerts all over the world with his Weddings and Funerals Orchestra. This consists of 10 people (in the small version) or 37 (in the large version, although at some instances this number will be different, depending on participants from the host country).
The small orchestra consists of Alen Ademovic (vocals, drums), Bokan Stankovic (first trumpet), Dalibor Lukic (second trumpet), Stojan Dimov (sax, clarinet), Aleksandar Rajkovic (first trombone, glockenspiel), Miloš Mihajlovic (second trombone), Dejan Manigodic (tuba) and Goran himself. The uniqueness of the orchestra comes from the voices of the Bulgarian singers Daniela Radkova|Daniela Radkova-Aleksandrova and Ludmila Radkova|Ludmila Radkova-Traikova . The large orchestra usually has singers from the Belgrade Orthodox male choir, string performers from Poland, or from the country in which they perform, as well as other local performers.
Eurovision
During the Eurovision 2008 final in Belgrade Arena , Serbia, he had a small concert. http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=PF8gVaEHnRI& feature=related dead link|date=September 2011 He also composed the Serbian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010; 'Ovo Je Balkan' sung by Milan Stankovic .
Personal
In 1993, Bregovic married his long-time girlfriend Dženana Sudžuka. The wedding ceremony held in Paris featured film director Emir Kusturica as the groom's best man and longtime Bijelo dugme backing vocal Amila Sulejmanovic as the bride's maid of honour.
The couple has three daughters: Ema (born in March 1995), Una (February 2002) and Lulu (May 2004).
Bregovic owns real-estate properties all over the world, but spends most of his time between Belgrade , where most of his musical collaborators reside, and Paris , where his spouse lives with their three daughters.
He also has a daughter named Željka (born out of wedlock from a previous relationship) who gave birth to Goran's grand daughter, Bianca. He has a brother named Predrag who lives in New York City and sister Dajana who lives in Split, Croatia|Split .
On 12 June 2008, Bregovic injured his spine in a fall from a tree. He fell four meters from a cherry tree in the garden of his home in Senjak , a Belgrade district, breaking vertebrae. However, according to the doctors, his condition was "stable without neurological complications." After surgery, he made a quick recovery and on 8 July and 9 July, he held two big concerts in New York City, where for more than two hours each night, he proved his performance skills had not suffered from the accident. http://blog.veni.com/? p=518 Goran Bregovic plays in New York
Bregovic prefers to avoid delving into politics. "Yugoslavia is the intersection of so many worlds: Orthodox, Catholic, Muslim," says Bregovic. "With music, I don't have to represent anyone except myself -- because I speak the first language of the world, the one everyone understands: music." http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2009/06/goran_bregovic_to_perform_at_p.html Goran Bregovic to perform at PlayhouseSquare
2005 - '' I giorni dell'abbandono - Directed by: Roberto Faenza
2006 - Karaula - Directed by: Rajko Grlic (This is not true)
2006 - Le Ličvre de Vatanen - Directed by: Marc Rivičre
2006 - Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make BenefitGlorious Nation of Kazakhstan (soundtrack)|Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make BenefitGlorious Nation of Kazakhstan (non-original music; "Ederlezi" from Dom za vešanje)
2007 - Fly by Rossinant - Directed by: Jacky Stoév
2008 - Mustafa (film)|Mustafa - Directed by: Can Dündar
Songbook (compilation)|Songbook (compilation 2000, Mercury Records - Universal Music Group|Universal )
Kris & Goran with Krzysztof Krawczyk (singer) (2002)
Tales and Songs from Weddings and Funerals (2002)
'' Goran Bregovic's Karmen with a Happy End (2007- Universal Music Group|Universal )
Alkohol (Šljivovica & Champagne) (2008)
Welcome to Bregovic (2009)
Champagne for the Gypsies (2012)
Honours and awards
Flag|Albania: On 31 June 2006 received a copy of the key of the city of Tirana by Edi Rama on the occasion of his visit to Albania. http://www.tirana.gov.al/Celesi_qytetit/bregovit.jpg Received a copy of the key of the city of Tirana
http://www.europopmusic.eu/Yugoslavia_pages/Bregovic.html Goran Bregovic on Europopmusic.eu (English)
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http://www.yu4you.com/trazi.php? terms=Goran+Bregovic& lang=en More Goran Bregovic's music
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php? id=52491 Goran Bregovic Interview at Allaboutjazz.com
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