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Goran Bregović
Goran Bregović 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.
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culture · Bosnian musician and composer (born 1950) · composer · film score composer · film actor · recording artist · painter · singer · musician · also Goran Bregović, Bregović
Born 22 March 1950 · Q193273
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2026· 6 entries
Published video “Out now with Dubioza Kolektiv!”.
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Published video “God is not Your Babysitter - the new single”.
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Published video “Goran Bregović and Dubioza Kolektiv - God is Not Your Babysitter”.
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Published video “2026 starts with a Music Video!”.
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Published video “Goran Bregović - Gypsy Zumba”.
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2025· 4 entries
Published video “Duvaj bre! 🎺 #OuzoAndBanana”.
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Published video “En ten tany #OuzoAndBanana”.
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Published video “And why I'm crazy about you then? #OuzoAndBanana”.
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Published video “I'm free nation, hippie generation #ouzoandbanana”.
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2023· 1 entry
Released album “The Belly Button of the World”.
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2021· 1 entry
Was awarded the Order of Karađorđe's Star by President Aleksandar Vučić on the occasion of Statehood Day of Serbia
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Goran Bregović, Guča 2007: 100,000 people in Balkan brass ecstasy
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2019· 2 entries
Sydney Morning Herald: Goran Bregovic is knitting the world back together, stitch by sonic stitch
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The Guardian: Goran Bregović: 'Balkan brass is punk – more madness than music'
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “Welcome to Goran Bregović”.
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2017· 3 entries
The Guardian: Goran Bregović: Three Letters from Sarajevo review – fun, if patchy
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Was a guest artist on Puerto Rican rapper Residente's album Residente on the song "El Futuro Es Nuestro" (Spanish for "The Future is Ours")
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Released album “Three Letters From Sarajevo (Opus 1)”.
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2015· 2 entries
Jazz: Goran Bregovic
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That the French court ruled in Macias' favour, ordering Bregović to pay Macias €1 million in damages
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2013· 6 entries
BBC: World on 3 Session with Goran Bregovic Goran Bregovic in session
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The Guardian: Goran Bregovic: 'I want to remind people what Gypsy culture's given'
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: In the Time of Goran Bregovic
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The Guardian: Goran Bregovic: Champagne for Gypsies – review
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As part of his Asia-Pacific tour (including Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong), Bregović performed with a string quartet, a male choir, Bulgarian singers and half of a brass band
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Released album “24. Mart Zetra Sarajevo”.
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2012· 4 entries
Released album “Champagne for Gypsies”.
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Published video “Presidente (Goran Bregovic Ft. The Gipsy Kings)”.
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Published video “Goran Bregovic Feat The Gipsy Kings - Presidente”.
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Published video “Goran Bregovic Feat The Gipsy Kings - Balkaneros”.
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2011· 3 entries
Orange County Register: Live review: Goran Bregovic at Disney Concert Hall
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Billboard: Goran Bregovic Recording With Gogol Bordello, Gipsy Kings
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Released album “Mustafa”.
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2010· 5 entries
Published video “Margot - Memoirs of an Unhappy Queen - France (excerpt)”.
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Published video “Margot - Memoirs of an Unhappy Queen - Italy (excerpt)”.
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Published video “Goran Bregovic - Basilique Saint Denis”.
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Published video “Goran Bregović - Cyprus 2010”.
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Published video “Saint-Denis”.
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2009· 7 entries
The Guardian: Goran Bregovic: Welcome to Bregovic
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Published video “Goran Bregović - Alkohol”.
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Published video “Goran Bregović - Gas, Gas, Gas”.
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Cleveland.com: Goran Bregovic to perform at PlayhouseSquare in downtown Cleveland
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The Guardian: World music review: Goran Bregovic, Alkohol
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Released album “Alkohol: Šljivovica & Champagne”.
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Stated: "Yugoslavia is the intersection of so many worlds: Orthodox, Catholic, Muslim
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2008· 1 entry
Final in Belgrade Arena, Serbia, he played as the interval act
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Goran Bregovic's Karmen With a Happy End”.
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2005· 1 entry
Bregović took part in three large farewell concerts of Bijelo Dugme
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2004· 1 entry
Novinite: Goran Bregovic: My Family is a Mini-Balkans Model
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2003· 1 entry
The Guardian: Goran Bregovic, Barbican, London
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Tales and Songs from Weddings and Funerals”.
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2001· 3 entries
Released album “Daj mi drugie życie”.
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Released album “Balkanica”.
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Recorded another album with another Polish singer, Krzysztof Krawczyk, titled Daj mi drugie życie ("Give Me Second Life")
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2000· 3 entries
Released album “Songbook”.
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Released album “Black Cat White Cat”.
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Released album “Music for Films”.
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1999· 4 entries
Released album “Kayah i Bregović”.
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Released album “Magic Book”.
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Named Thessaloniki – Yannena with Two Canvas Shoes
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Released album “Arizona Dream / Queen Margot”.
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1998· 3 entries
Released album “Ederlezi”.
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Released album “Silence of the Balkans”.
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Released album “Irish Songs”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “Θεσσαλονίκη – Γιάννενα με δυο παπούτσια πάνινα”.
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Worked with Turkish singer Sezen Aksu on her album Düğün ve Cenaze (Wedding and Funeral)
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “P.S.”.
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “Underground”.
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Released album “Music Inspired and Taken From Цndergяoцnd”.
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “Muzika za filmove”.
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Released album “La Reine Margot”.
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1993· 2 entries
Bregović married his long-time girlfriend Sudžuka in a civic wedding ceremony held in Paris with film director Emir Kusturica as the groom's best man and longtime Bijelo Dugme backing vocalist Amila Sulejmanović as the b
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Released album “Arizona Dream”.
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Kuduz (Muzika Iz Filma Ademira Kenovića)”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Le Temps des Gitans / Kuduz”.
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1984· 1 entry
Dissatisfied with their respective financial terms at the state-owned Jugoton label, Bijelo Dugme bandleader Bregović and one of Yugoslavia's biggest pop stars, Zdravko Čolić, got together to establish their own music la
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1981· 1 entry
Bregović started a high-profile relationship with Serbian model Ljiljana Tica, eight years his junior
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1977· 1 entry
When she was sixteen, and a relationship with upstart Serbian actress Maja Sabljić, ten years his junior, whom he began dating in 1979 during the production of the docudrama Lične stvari that they were both involved with
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1976· 2 entries
Released album “Goran Bregović”.
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And composing two movie soundtracks—1977's Leptirov oblak and 1979's Lične stvari
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1971· 1 entry
Twenty-one-year-old Bregović—a student at the University of Sarajevo's Faculty of Philosophy—got accepted into the Yugoslav Communist League (SKJ), the only party in SFR Yugoslavia's political system
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1969· 1 entry
Željko Bebek invited eighteen-year-old Bregović to play bass guitar in his band Kodeksi, which Goran gladly accepted
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1950· 1 entry
Born 1950-03-22.
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