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Goran Bregović

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musician and composer from Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Goran Bregović is a male composer, film score composer, film actor, and recording artist born in Sarajevo on March 22, 1950. He holds citizenship in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and France. Bregović resides in Sarajevo and Paris and speaks French and Serbian. His professional career began in 1969, and he has worked with record labels including Jugoton, Diskoton, and Mercury Records. He is a member of the Catholic Church and has four children.

Bregović performs on the voice and bass guitar. His work in the film score field has earned him a nomination for the European Film Award for Best Composer. He is associated with musical styles tagged as balkan, folk, Gypsy, Soundtrack, and ethnic.

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Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia

Goran Bregović (Serbo-Croatian 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 Slavic-speaking 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…

Known for

  • Life Is a Costume Party — Himself2024
  • Saban Bajramovic - My Journey — Himself2024
  • Adriatic - United Sea of Europe — Himself2022
  • Not So Friendly Neighborhood Affair — Goran Bregović2021
  • Indexi — Himself2020
  • A Small Documentary Film About 3 Letters — Himself2019
  • Tifa — Himself2018
  • Trapped Time — Himself2017
  • Trieste, Yugoslavia — Himself2017
  • Lost Button — Himself2015

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Active from
1950

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Listeners
213,360
Total plays
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balkanfolkGypsySoundtrackethnic

Goran Bregović is one of the most recognizable modern composers of the Balkans. Composer and guitarist Goran Bregović has been a household name in the Balkans for over two decades. Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora. He earned his fame wielding a guitar with his rock band Bijelo Dugme, a group that rose to stardom and set the groundwork for the Yugoslav rock scene. Known here for his scores for countryman Emir Kusturica’s films (Time of the Gypsies <a hre

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Goran
Gender
male
Citizenship
France
Place of birth
Sarajevo
Languages spoken
Serbian
Field of work
film score
Instrument
voice
Record label
Mercury Records
Official website
www.goranbregovic.rs
Image
20220710-Rudolstadt-Festival-2022-Goran-Bregovic-7849 (cropped).jpg
Number of children
4
Residence
Paris
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Goran Bregović
date of birth
1950-03-22
name in native language
Goran Bregović
nickname
Брега
start of work period
1969-00-00
social media followers
228000
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Encyclopedic overview

Goran Bregović (Serbo-Croatian 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 Slavic-speaking 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 l'Olympia.

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 Kusturica's 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 Award-nominated film La Reine Margot and the Cannes-entered film The Serpent's Kiss.

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