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Goran Bregovic

Goran Bregović
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Background information
Birth name Goran Bregović
Also known as Brega
Born (1950-03-22) 22 March 1950 (age 66)
Sarajevo, PR Bosnia-Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia
Genres Rock, folk, world, film score
Occupation(s) Musician, film score composer
Instruments Guitar, vocals, bass
Years active 1969-present
Associated acts Bijelo Dugme, Kodeksi, Jutro, Kayah
Website www.goranbregovic.rs

Goran Bregović (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Бреговић, pronounced [ɡɔ̌ran brɛ̂ːɡɔʋitɕ], born 22 March 1950) is a Yugoslav and Bosnian musician and one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans.

Bregović 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 three of Emir Kusturica's films (Time of the Gypsies, Arizona Dream, and Underground).

Born in Sarajevo, PR Bosnia-Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia to a Croat father Franjo Bregović and Serb mother Borka Perišić, Goran grew up with an older sister Dajana and a younger brother Predrag. Their father was from Croatian Zagorje, specifically Sveti Petar Čvrstec village near Križevci, while their mother was born in Virovitica to parents that shortly before her birth arrived in the nearby village of Čemernica, settling there from the village of Kazanci near Gacko in eastern Herzegovina. Her father, Goran's maternal grandfather, fought in the Serbian Army at the Macedonian Front during World War I and as a reward received land in Slavonia where he soon moved his family.


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