Goran Ivandic

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Goran Ivandić, called Ipe (born December 10, 1955 in Vareš , Yugoslavia , † January 12, 1994 in Belgrade ) was a Yugoslav drummer who was known as a member of the rock band Bijelo Dugme .

life and career

Early years

Ivandić was born on December 10, 1955 in the central Bosnian city of Vareš and moved with his family to Sarajevo as a young child . During his primary school years, Ivandić also took violin lessons, but after his final exam he decided not to study the violin .

He did not find his way back to music until 1970 when he founded a band with some friends, as the instruments were provided free of charge by the Boško Buha youth center . Ivandić became the drummer of the band that was named Crossroads. He began to neglect school as the band took up most of his free time. So it happened that Ivandić had to repeat the second grade of high school and later switched to part-time secondary school.

Early career

In June 1972 Ivandić gave a three-month summer appearance in Trpanj as part of the band Moby Dick.

After Ivandić returned to Sarajevo, he received numerous offers from groups looking for a drummer and decided to join the band Rock. The band worked with Gabor Lenđel , who founded the hard rock band Teška industrija in 1974 , among others .

Jutro and Bijelo Dugme

Ivandić was still the drummer for the band Rock when Jutro bandleader Goran Bregović became aware of him in the late summer of 1973. Bregović was looking for a replacement for Šento Borovčanin and immediately invited Ivandić, which Ivandić accepted. Ivandić began the first of his three stints with what was soon to be the most popular band in Yugoslavia. A few months later, on New Year's Eve 1974, Jutro changed its name to Bijelo Dugme.

After Ivandić had recorded two albums with his band, Kad bi 'bio bijelo dugme and Šta bi dao da si na mom mjestu , in October 1976 he was drafted for military service in the Yugoslav People's Army . This came at an inopportune time as the band was preparing to begin recording their third album. At that time still 20 years old, he was assigned to a unit stationed in the capital Belgrade. His successor in the band was Bregović's old companion Milić Vukašinović . Ivandić joined the band immediately after his return from the army in mid-1977, as he was released early because he was declared "unfit for service".

He rejoined the band at the time when they were struggling with equipment and organizational problems in the middle of a disastrous tour.

Side project with Laza Ristovski, Bijelo Dugme exit and drug bankruptcy

While Bijelo Dugme took a break in 1978 because band leader Bregović was in Niš to do his military service, Ivandić and Bijelo Dugme keyboardist Laza Ristovski began working on their own project - an album called Stižemo , released with Laza i Ipe as interpreters. The album composed by Ristovski, arranged by Ipe, with lyrics by Ranko Boban , was recorded in London in February and March 1978 . Ivandić, his sister Gordana Ivandić and Goran Kovačević on vocals, Leb i Sol - conductor Vlatko Stefanovski on guitar, Zlatko Hold on bass and Ristovski on keyboard. However, the release date kept getting postponed due to funding problems as they struggled to convince the record label Jugoton to cover their expenses.

The duo, supported by Bijelo Dugme singer Željko Bebek , caused a lot of discussion during Bregović's absence as they wanted things to be handled differently within the band in the future. Most of the topics they raised were limited to writing credits and then dividing the income. Dissatisfied with Bregović's blanket rejection of their demands, the two Bijelo Dugme left at the end of July 1978 to devote themselves entirely to their new project.

The money problems of their new project were solved with Jugoton by handing the material over to the ZKP RTLJ label, while Bijelo Dugme bandmate Zoran Redžić received part of the money. The album Stižemo was ambitiously advertised with high-quality press material. It was also the first time in Yugoslavia that the release date of an album was publicly announced in advance - a common practice at the time was to release an album and then promote it when it was already on sale.

On September 10, 1978, the day the album was released, Ivandić was arrested by a plainclothes police officer on his way home from a walk with his girlfriend. Ivandić was due to leave for Belgrade in a few hours, where Ristovski was waiting for him to start promotional activities for the album. Instead, Ivandić was charged with a number of drug offenses along with others. Thus began a long court battle and most of his musical activities faded into the background. He even sold his drums and returned to his university studies, where he took some exams at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Sarajevo , where he was enrolled in the journalism program. However, he soon returned to music and played on the debut album Gorim od želje da ubijem noć by the 22-year-old Slađana Milošević from 1979, which was recorded in the studios of PGP-RTB in Belgrade.

Finally, Ivandić was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by the Sarajevo District Court, presided over by Judge Husein Hubijer, for “ possessing hashish and allowing others to use narcotics”. Goran Kovačević was sentenced to one and a half years and Ranko Boban to one year on the same charges. In addition, Zlatko Hold was sentenced to six months in prison for obstructing justice. Ivandić appealed the judgment and his sentence was reduced to three years by the Supreme Court of SR Bosnia-Herzegovina .

He began serving his sentence in the Zenica Correctional Facility. He was transferred to Foča Prison on February 17, 1981 , before being pardoned on November 29, 1982.

Return to Bijelo Dugme & Death

After his release, he began working again with Bijelo Dugme at the end of December 1982, which lasted until the band broke up in 1989.

In the mid-1980s, he recorded two albums with his long-time girlfriend Amila Sulejmanović , Kakav Divan Dan and Igre Slobode . After recording the albums, Sulejmanović moved to London, while Ivandić stopped all other projects in order to concentrate entirely on Bijelo Dugme.

It is unclear where he lived after the war began. Rumor has it that he lived in Belgrade, but in an interview conducted for the Croatian weekly newspaper Globus a few days after his death in 1994 , Željko Bebek stated that Ivandić was living in Vienna at least at the time of their last conversation .

On January 12, 1994, Ivandić fell from the 6th floor of the Belgrade Metropol Hotel and died. It is widely believed that it was a suicide , but Bebek expressed doubts about this theory in the interview.

Goran Ivandić was married to Dragana Ivandić until his death, with whom he had a son, Filip Ivandić, born in Sarajevo in 1991.

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personal data
SURNAME Ivandić, Goran
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav drummer
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Vareš , Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1994
Place of death Belgrade , Serbia