Goran Bregović

Goran Bregović (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Бреговић; born 22 March 1950) is a Serbian recording artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina. A Yugo-nostalgic, after the war he said that he "could only be a Yugoslav". He has stated that he "is not enough Serb to be a Serb, not Croat to be a Croat, and not even enough to be Bosnian".}} He is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Serbian speaking countries in the Balkans, and is one of the few former Yugoslav musicians who has performed at major international venues such as Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall and L'Olympia.

A Sarajevo native, Bregović started out with 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 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. After Bijelo Dugme split up, he embarked on several critically and commercially successful 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 ''Time of the Gypsies'', Bregović won a Golden Arena Award at the Pula Film Festival in 1990, among other awards. He had also composed for the Academy Award-nominated film ''La Reine Margot'' and the Cannes-entered film ''The Serpent's Kiss''.

Bregović, during his five-decade long career, has composed for critically acclaimed singers, including Sezen Aksu, Kayah, Iggy Pop, Šaban Bajramović, George Dalaras and Cesária Évora. Provided by Wikipedia