Goran Bregović

Goran Bregović SerboCroatian Cyrillic Горан Бреговић born 22 March 1950 is a recording artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina He is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Slavicspeaking countries in the Balkans and one of the few former Yugoslav musicians who have performed at major international venues such as Carnegie Hall Royal Albert Hall and lOlympia A Sarajevo native Bregović started out with the bands Kodeksi and Jutro but rose to prominence as the main creative mind and lead guitarist of Bijelo Dugme widely considered one of the most popular and influential recording acts ever to exist in the SFR Yugoslavia After Bijelo Dugme split up he embarked on several critically and commercially successful solo projects and started composing film scores Among his better known film scores are three of Emir Kusturicas films Time of the Gypsies Arizona Dream and Underground For Silent Gunpowder Bregović won the Golden Arena for Best Film Music at the 1990 Pula Film Festival among other awards He has also composed for the Academy Awardnominated film La Reine Margot and the Cannesentered film The Serpents Kiss During his fivedecade career Bregović has composed for critically acclaimed singers including Sezen Aksu Kayah Iggy Pop Šaban Bajramović George Dalaras Cesária Évora and Severina