Milan Mladenović

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Milan Mladenović ( Cyrillic : Милан Младеновић; * September 21, 1958 - November 5, 1994 ) was a rock musician in the former Yugoslavia , known as the front man of the art rock band Ekatarina Velika (EKV). He was a great rock poet for a generation.

Life

Mladenović was born in Zagreb , where his father was an officer in the Yugoslav People's Army . When he was six years old, the family moved to Sarajevo , and in 1970 to Belgrade .

Musical career

Limunovo Drvo and Šarlo Akrobata

He founded his first band with his school friend Gagi Mihajlović ; it was called Limunovo drvo (lemon tree). Later the name was changed to Sarlo akrobata . Mladenović's musical influences at the time were Elvis Costello , Paul Weller and Andy Partridge from XTC .

Katarina II and Ekatarina Velika

In 1981 Mladenović and his bandmate from Limunovo drvo founded the band Katarina II. In 1982 Margita Stefanović joined them as keyboard player , Bojan Pečar as bassist and Ivan Vdović Vd. Due to a name dispute, the band was renamed Ekatarina Velika in 1985 .

In 1992 Mladenović teamed up with other Serbian musicians to form Rimtutituki , an anti-war project . In the spring of 1994 he recorded the album Angel's Breath in Brazil with his old friend Mitar Subotić .

death

In August 1994, Mladenović was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died in Belgrade on November 5th .

Discography

Sarlo acrobata

Katarina II / Ekatarina Velika

  • Katarina II (Album) | Katarina II (1984)
  • Ekatarina Velika (1985)
  • S 'vetrom uz lice (1986)
  • Ljubav (1987)
  • Samo par godina za nas (1989)
  • Dum dum (1991)
  • Neko nas posmatra (1993)

Angel's Breath

  • Angel's Breath (1994)

Individual evidence

  • Milan Mladenović: Child out of the water . Song lyrics. Translated from the Serbian by Elvira Veselinović. Leipziger Literaturverlag 2012, ISBN 978-3866-601390

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personal data
SURNAME Mladenović, Milan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav rock singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb , Croatia
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1994
Place of death Belgrade , Serbia