Mate Bulic

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Mate Bulić ( Zagreb , 2009)

Listen to Mate Bulić ? / i (formerly also Mato Bulić ; born February 18, 1957 in Donja Blatnica zu Čitluk , Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian singer from Herzegovina . Audio file / audio sample

He is under contract with Croatia Records and is known for his publications in the field of Croatian pop - folk music. His songs often contain a mixture of folk Herzegovinian- Bosnian elements (e.g. Ganga and Diple ) with elements of rock and pop. You can the genre of "newly composed folk music " ( 'Newly-Composed Folk Music' - NCFM) be attributed to the source of the turbo-folk .

Bulić is one of the most popular artists among Croats in Europe and overseas and is known as Kralj dijaspore ("King of the Diaspora ").

He often appears at joint concerts with the singers Marko Perković "Thompson" and Miroslav Škoro or with just one of the two, so that the musicians are also referred to as tri tenora (The Three Tenors) or tri kuma (The Three Godfathers ).

The Croatian weekly newspaper Nacional ranked Bulić among the 1,000 most influential people in Croatia in 2005 (rank 581).

Career

After he had his first appearance in a Yugoslav club at the age of 20, the song Vidimo se (We'll see you) was recorded for the first time two years later .

In 1985 he emigrated to Germany and worked as a construction worker. Bulić had his breakthrough as a singer in 1994 with the album Gdje ste noćas prijatelji stari . In the 1990s he became friends with the controversial singer Marko Perković "Thompson" , who was considered to be nationalist lyrics .

Bulić says about his music:

“Yes radim hrvatsku narodnu glazbu s etnoelementima, koju je kvalitetno osmislio Thompson i nipošto me se ne može trpati u isti koš sa srpskim folkom. To je gadljivo! [...] Yes sam barijera od istoka prema ovamo "

“I make Croatian folk music with ethnic elements that Thompson produced to a high standard, and I am sure you can't throw me in the same basket as Serbian folk. That's disgusting! [...] I am a barrier against the East "

Private

Bulić was born to Vinko Bulić and his wife Ana. Mate has a younger brother. He attended the elementary school in Čitluk and a secondary school for electrical engineering in Mostar , with the aim of a corresponding study.

In his youth he was interested in addition to the song for the football and played as a goalkeeper .

Bulić has lived in Frankfurt am Main with his wife Zdravka since 1985 . The daughters Ana and Katja emerged from the marriage.

Awards

In 2012 Bulić received the “Croatian Home Prize” ( Večernjakova domovnica ) from the Croatian newspaper Večernji list , as an honorary award for his humanitarian achievements.

Albums

  • 1977: Čekaj meni rodna grudo (Wait for me, home soil)
  • 1978: Što ne osta u mom srcu (What didn't stay in my heart)
  • 1979: Dijelimo se ja i moja draga
  • 1983: Šuti Đurđa (Be quiet Đurđa)
  • 1984: Tražim ženu tebi slicnu (I'm looking for a woman who looks like you)
  • 1994: Gdje ste noćas prijatelji stari (Where are you old friends tonight)
  • 1997: Dodijalo pajdo
  • 1998: Hrvatske narodne pjesme 1 (Croatian folk songs 1)
  • 1999: Pjevajte sa mnom (Sing with me)
  • 1999: Uživo, Split (Live, Split); also as a DVD
  • 2001: Sve najbolje (Best of)
  • 2003: Gori borovina (Fir trees are burning)
  • 2004: Megamix
  • 2007: Kako mi je, tako mi je (How I feel, so is me)
  • 2011: Domu mom (My home)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reana Senjković, Davor Dukić: Virtual Homeland? Reading the Music on Offer on a Particular Webpage . In: International Journal of Cultural Studies . No. 8/1 , p. 50 .
  2. ^ Rory Archer: "Paint Me Black and Gold and Put Me in a Frame": Turbofolk at Balcanist Discourse in (post) Yugoslav Cultural Space . Budapest 2009, p. 32 ( etd.ceu.hu [PDF] Master's thesis, submitted to the Central European University).
  3. ↑ Mate i Zdravka Bulić: bračni život kralja dijaspore . In: Gloria . December 5, 2013 ( gloria.hr ).
  4. ↑ globe . No. 708-716 , 2004 ( books.google.de ).
  5. ^ Catherine Baker: Sounds of the Borderland: Popular Music, War and Nationalism in Croatia since 1991 . Ashgate, Farnham 2010, ISBN 978-1-4094-0337-1 , footnote 7, p. 98 .
  6. ↑ TOP LISTA MOĆNIKA: 1000 najmoćnijih . In: Nacional . No. 492 , April 19, 2005 ( nacional.hr ( Memento of December 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )).
  7. ↑ Saša Jadrijević Tomas: Napolju per Poledica, a ja posla bez gaćica . In: Slobodna Dalmacija . December 30, 2004 ( arhiv.slobodnadalmacija.hr ).
  8. ↑ Anke Hillebrecht: The parade of the stars . In: Taunus newspaper . March 20, 2012 ( taunus-zeitung.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Bulic, mate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bulic, Mato
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Blatnica