The Kuguars
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The Kuguars were a successful short-lived Serbia
n comedy rock
band from Belgrade
, mainly consisting of famous Serbian actors. Formed in 1997, the band released two albums featuring humorous songs, before disbanding in 2001.
, vocals), Nikola Ðuričko
(guitar
, vocals), Rade Marković (guitar, vocals), Boris Milivojević (bass guitar
), Bogdan Diklić
(drums
), Papa Nick (percussion) and Tibor Tot (percussion), intending to perform and record music for theatre plays. The band got the name by the theatre troupe called Kuguari which the band members were a part of, named after the state of the dressing room the actors used during the rehearsals which reminded them of a den occupied by the cougars.
The debut album, released without much commercial ambition, consisted of the material recorded as a soundtrack for the Smešna strana muzike (A Funny Side of Music) theatre play. Most of the tracks on the album were witty cover versions of either rock
hits, including the Deep Purple
song "Smoke on the Water
", featuring the lyrics from the children poem "Leptiriću šareniću" written by Jovan Jovanović Zmaj
, "Raw Hide
", renamed to "Gipsy Hide", or their interpretations of children songs, including "Ocka" and "Kad si srećan". The album also featured the hit songs "Zidareva ljubav", a turbo folk parody song, for which the song lyrics were written by the director Srđan Dragojević, and the soccer anthem "Dejo" (a cover of Harry Belafonte
song "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)"), dedicated to the member of the Yugoslav national soccer team Dejan Savićević
.
The second studio album, Open de dor (transliteration
for Open the Door) presented the band in a more serious manner, but nonetheless featured a pornographic parody of the ABBA
track "Chiquitita
", a cover of the Miroslav Ilić
hit "Ja zavoleh devojku iz grada", with lyrics in English language
entitled "I Was Born", and a cover of "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" from the Cabaret
movie soundtrack, with lyrics in Serbian language
entitled "Budućnost je samo za nas". The album also featured a cover of the blues
standard "Fever" with lyrics in Serbian language
renamed to "Zima", which became a nationwide hit, and the a capella version of the Bijelo Dugme
song "Ne spavaj mala moja muzika dok svira", for which the lead vocals were provided by Bogdan Diklić, recorded in order to resemble the version Diklić had sung in the 1979 film Nacionalna klasa.
On December 2, 2001, the percussionist Tibor Tot died in a car accident and the band ceased to exist.
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n comedy rock
Comedy rock
Comedy rock is rock music mixed with comedy, often satire and parody.-History:Early USA examples include Stan Freberg, who lampooned artists such as Elvis Presley, Harry Belafonte and The Platters, and Sheb Wooley whose "Purple People Eater" reached No...
band from Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
, mainly consisting of famous Serbian actors. Formed in 1997, the band released two albums featuring humorous songs, before disbanding in 2001.
History
The band, mainly consisting of actors, was formed in 1997 by Dragan Jovanović (vocals), Dejan Matić (triangleTriangle (instrument)
The triangle is an idiophone type of musical instrument in the percussion family. It is a bar of metal, usually steel but sometimes other metals like beryllium copper, bent into a triangle shape. The instrument is usually held by a loop of some form of thread or wire at the top curve...
, vocals), Nikola Ðuričko
Nikola Ðuricko
Nikola Ðuričko is a Serbian actor.Equally active on film, television, and in theater, Ðuričko graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts. His first notable film was in 1989, in a movie Poslednji krug u Monci.-Personal life:On June 7, 2004, Ðuričko got married to Ljiljana...
(guitar
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
, vocals), Rade Marković (guitar, vocals), Boris Milivojević (bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
), Bogdan Diklić
Bogdan Diklic
Bogdan Diklić is a Serbian actor and star of over one hundred Yugoslavian movies and television series.He and Goran Marković made 10 movies....
(drums
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
), Papa Nick (percussion) and Tibor Tot (percussion), intending to perform and record music for theatre plays. The band got the name by the theatre troupe called Kuguari which the band members were a part of, named after the state of the dressing room the actors used during the rehearsals which reminded them of a den occupied by the cougars.
The debut album, released without much commercial ambition, consisted of the material recorded as a soundtrack for the Smešna strana muzike (A Funny Side of Music) theatre play. Most of the tracks on the album were witty cover versions of either rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
hits, including the Deep Purple
Deep Purple
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre...
song "Smoke on the Water
Smoke on the Water
"Smoke on the Water" is a song by the British hard rock band Deep Purple. It was first released on their 1972 album Machine Head. In 2004, the song was ranked number 426 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time, and in March 2005, Q magazine placed "Smoke on the Water"...
", featuring the lyrics from the children poem "Leptiriću šareniću" written by Jovan Jovanović Zmaj
Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj
Jovan Jovanović Zmaj was one of the best-known Serbian poets. He was a physician by profession, like his literary predecessor writer Jovan Stejić ....
, "Raw Hide
Rawhide (song)
"Rawhide" is a Western song written by Ned Washington and composed by Dimitri Tiomkin in 1958. It was originally recorded by Frankie Laine...
", renamed to "Gipsy Hide", or their interpretations of children songs, including "Ocka" and "Kad si srećan". The album also featured the hit songs "Zidareva ljubav", a turbo folk parody song, for which the song lyrics were written by the director Srđan Dragojević, and the soccer anthem "Dejo" (a cover of Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte
Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist. He was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s...
song "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)"), dedicated to the member of the Yugoslav national soccer team Dejan Savićević
Dejan Savicevic
Dejan Savićević , is a Montenegrin former football player and is the president of the Montenegrin FA....
.
The second studio album, Open de dor (transliteration
Transliteration
Transliteration is a subset of the science of hermeneutics. It is a form of translation, and is the practice of converting a text from one script into another...
for Open the Door) presented the band in a more serious manner, but nonetheless featured a pornographic parody of the ABBA
ABBA
ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1970 which consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog...
track "Chiquitita
Chiquitita
"Chiquitita" was the first single release from Swedish pop group ABBA's Voulez-Vous album, their sixth for Polar, and their fifth for Epic and Atlantic...
", a cover of the Miroslav Ilić
Miroslav Ilic
Miroslav Ilić , is a popular Serbian folk singer-songwriter. He is known for his powerful vocals and emotional lyrics. Before becoming a musician he took Electrical courses at a University of Skopje...
hit "Ja zavoleh devojku iz grada", with lyrics in English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
entitled "I Was Born", and a cover of "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" from the Cabaret
Cabaret (film)
Cabaret is a 1972 musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, under the ominous presence of the growing National Socialist Party....
movie soundtrack, with lyrics in Serbian language
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
entitled "Budućnost je samo za nas". The album also featured a cover of the blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
standard "Fever" with lyrics in Serbian language
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
renamed to "Zima", which became a nationwide hit, and the a capella version of the Bijelo Dugme
Bijelo dugme
Bijelo dugme was a highly influential former Yugoslav rock band, based in Sarajevo. Active between 1974 and 1989, it is widely considered to have been the most popular band ever to exist in former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and one of the most important acts of the Yugoslav rock...
song "Ne spavaj mala moja muzika dok svira", for which the lead vocals were provided by Bogdan Diklić, recorded in order to resemble the version Diklić had sung in the 1979 film Nacionalna klasa.
On December 2, 2001, the percussionist Tibor Tot died in a car accident and the band ceased to exist.
External links
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- The Kuguars at FacebookFacebookFacebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
- The Kuguars at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...
- The Kuguars at Last.fmLast.fmLast.fm is a music website, founded in the United Kingdom in 2002. It has claimed 30 million active users in March 2009. On 30 May 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for UK£140m ....
- The Kuguars at YoutubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....