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Tifa (musician)
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Mladen Vojičić, widely known by the nickname/stagename Tifa (born 17 October 1960, Sarajevo
, Bosnia and Herzegovina
, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian rock
vocalist. He became famous throughout former Yugoslavia
for his brief stint as the lead singer of Bijelo dugme
in mid-1980s.
Apart from Bijelo dugme, he sang in numerous bands with varying degrees of prominence (most notable being Teška industrija, Vatreni poljubac and Divlje jagode
). Undisputedly a singer with great vocal capabilities, Tifa's impulsive personality and irrational character often stood in the way of him reaching bigger achievements career wise. He is one of the few performers in former Yugoslavia that openly discuss personal drug
and alcohol
problems.
Nowadays, Tifa maintains a semi-successful solo career.
's Koševo Hospital, to a Bosnian Serb father Branko and a Bosnian Croat mother Jelena. He was nickname
d Tifa before reaching the age of 4 because he loved train
s and would often shout "Ide lokomotifa" (properly pronounced "Ide lokomotiva" meaning "Here comes the locomotive
") because he had problems pronouncing phoneme
"v".
He displayed an early propensity for singing. By the age of 5, he knew the entire repertoire of Indexi
. In primary school Tifa was an excellent student. Around that time he was a fan of UK band Sweet
. He completed gymnasium
, but did not excel at university
. In order to please his intellectual
father, he tried to work towards a "real job" by attending a number of University of Sarajevo
faculties (mechanical engineering
, architecture
, civil engineering
, geodesy
), but ultimately abandoned each of them before devoting to music
full-time.
player in the first group he was involved with (Prvi čin). After barely a month, he moved on to Kako kad and only started singing when the lead singer didn't show up for rehearsal
one day. After some time the band dissolved as everybody except Tifa lost their interest in music. His last band before leaving for the mandatory army
service in October 1980 was called Paradox.
While in the army he stayed in touch with Zlatan Čehić, Paradox's bass player. Together, they also started working on tracks by mailing packages back and forth containing audio cassettes with Zlatan composing and Tifa writing the lyrics. Upon his return from the army, Tifa learned that Paradox had been dissolved and that Zlatan joined another band named Top, so he took back all of his lyrics and sought a new band to play with, only to eventually end up in Top also. They lasted until January 1983.
In the meantime, word spread around Sarajevo about Tifa's excellent vocal, so people started coming to him with offers of joining their groups. This led to engagements in a few bands, none of which existed long enough to achieve any prominence. Briefly, he was even a fringe member of the freshly re-activated Teška industrija that made use of his lyrics in 1984 to record a few tracks on their comeback album Ponovo s vama ("Again with you"). Around the same time Tifa started drinking
and abusing drugs
, two vices that would plague him severely later in life.
for a possible stint with his band, Tifa got a dream offer very few struggling musicians would dare refuse. Goran Bregović
invited him to join Bijelo dugme
, the biggest band in SFR Yugoslavia, as replacement to recently departed Željko Bebek
. The year was 1984.
Being only 24 years old, Tifa was ill prepared for the instant fame he was about to step into. To make matters even more difficult, his alcoholism and drug use were worse than ever. During most of the recording sessions Tifa was either drunk or stoned, or both, but despite numerous personality issues, Bregović was very much satisfied with the quality of his young singer's voice. After somehow finishing the album
, the band embarked on what would prove to be an extremely troublesome tour. The burden of replacing Željko Bebek
, lead vocal who spent previous 14 years with the band's various incarnations was just too heavy for Tifa to cope with. Bregović & co., all of whom were considerably older and more mature than their new vocalist, demanded discipline and professional approach, but got neither. To ease the pressure of playing in front of tens of thousands screaming fans every other night Tifa disappeared even further in his chemical addictions, making himself pretty much impossible to deal with. By October 1985, Bregović had finally had enough and kicked him out of the band. Tifa's last performance with Bijelo dugme took place in Moscow
on August 2, 1985.
Back on the music front, his first post-Dugme move was a duet with Željko Bebek
for Bebek's new project Armija B - they sang on a track called "Široko nam toplo polje glamočko". Two former Bijelo dugme frontmen even went on tour together, however proving once again he doesn't function well on the road, Tifa quit right in the middle of it, reasoning that it wasn't very successful anyway.
In the autumn 1986, he finally joined Milić Vukašinović
's Vatreni poljubac recording 100% Rock'n'roll album with them.
After failing to settle down there too, Tifa ended up in Divlje jagode
, fulfilling Sead Lipovača
's wish of replacing Alen Islamović
with someone from "Bregović
's clan" as revenge for Alen's transfer to Bijelo dugme. Tifa participated in the recordings of their album titled Konji and even contributed a track of his own - "Zauvjek tvoj".
After making one album with Divlje jagode, he left the group in 1988 and recorded new material under Tifa & Vlado moniker with keyboards
player Vlado Prodan (who earlier also played in Divlje Jagode and Armija B). However, no record company showed sufficient interest in releasing the album.
during studio sessions. Tifa wrote most of the songs for the band. Around the same time Tifa tried to negotiate a personal transfer to Atomsko sklonište
, which sought to replace Sergio Blažić - Đoser, but that never happened.
In early 1990 Tifa performed concerts with new lineup of Tifa Band with Zlatan Čehić (his old collaborator from Paradox days) as one of the members. Tifa then put together a second solo album Samo ljubav postoji together with Zlatan.
He remained in his hometown during most of the siege of Sarajevo
and even managed to record an album Šareni dan during that time. After getting viciously beaten up by some local heavies, an incident he vehemently refuses to discuss, Tifa left Sarajevo in 1995 for Germany
. Once there, he first hooked up with Divlje jagode again and then formed his own band. Shortly thereafter he returned to Sarajevo and carried on with a solo career.
reunion for 3 large farewell concerts, but even then the reports of trouble were not far behind. Apparently Tifa and Bebek got into a verbal bust-up backstage at the Sarajevo concert (the first in the series). Then one day before the Belgrade concert (the final one in the series), irritated Tifa blasted Bregovic
and manager Raka Maric in Kurir
daily tabloid: "Wouldn't you be mad if someone tortured you like this. I haven't had a bite to eat since this morning, I barely had time to take a piss. What's he jerking-off inside now [referring to Bregovic] why aren't we starting already. What am I, a scumbag with nothing better to do than running like a dog after his master!?"
Tifa then continued: "I'm mad at Brega and Raka. It's ridiculous to think we got back together because of emotions. Like we're all just trembling with excitement. Please, gimme a break, this is a swindle of the lifetime and everything is put together for nothing other than cold cash. They paid me well to sing my Dugme songs - I'll gladly do that and then it's see ya later. I hear some are already talking about continuing on with the Dugme thing. No problem, but not with me. After this concert I don't wanna see them again in this or in the next life. Maybe only in the third one. They took a year and a half out of my life, my kid has forgotten what I look like."http://arhiva.kurir-info.rs/Arhiva/2005/jun/29/ST-03-29062005.shtml
He would reunite with Zeljko Bebek and Alen Islamovic to form a group called "Kad Bi Bio Bijelo Dugme" in 2006 and go on a North American tour. They returned once again in 2007 and began their world wide tour which lasted until the end of 2010.
Sarajevo
Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....
, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian 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...
vocalist. He became famous throughout former Yugoslavia
Former Yugoslavia
The former Yugoslavia is a term used to describe the present day states which succeeded the collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia....
for his brief stint as the lead singer of 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...
in mid-1980s.
Apart from Bijelo dugme, he sang in numerous bands with varying degrees of prominence (most notable being Teška industrija, Vatreni poljubac and Divlje jagode
Divlje jagode
Divlje Jagode is a Yugoslav and Bosnian hard rock and heavy metal band.-1970s:Divlje Jagode were formed in 1977 in Bihać by guitarist Zele Lipovača...
). Undisputedly a singer with great vocal capabilities, Tifa's impulsive personality and irrational character often stood in the way of him reaching bigger achievements career wise. He is one of the few performers in former Yugoslavia that openly discuss personal drug
Drug abuse
Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, refers to a maladaptive pattern of use of a substance that is not considered dependent. The term "drug abuse" does not exclude dependency, but is otherwise used in a similar manner in nonmedical contexts...
and alcohol
Alcoholism
Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing...
problems.
Nowadays, Tifa maintains a semi-successful solo career.
Early life
Mladen Vojičić was born in the maternity ward of SarajevoSarajevo
Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....
's Koševo Hospital, to a Bosnian Serb father Branko and a Bosnian Croat mother Jelena. He was nickname
Nickname
A nickname is "a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name.", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name....
d Tifa before reaching the age of 4 because he loved train
Train
A train is a connected series of vehicles for rail transport that move along a track to transport cargo or passengers from one place to another place. The track usually consists of two rails, but might also be a monorail or maglev guideway.Propulsion for the train is provided by a separate...
s and would often shout "Ide lokomotifa" (properly pronounced "Ide lokomotiva" meaning "Here comes the locomotive
Locomotive
A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...
") because he had problems pronouncing phoneme
Phoneme
In a language or dialect, a phoneme is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances....
"v".
He displayed an early propensity for singing. By the age of 5, he knew the entire repertoire of Indexi
Indexi
Indexi was a Bosnian rock band popular in the former Yugoslavia. It formed in 1962 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and disbanded in 2001 when singer Davorin Popović died...
. In primary school Tifa was an excellent student. Around that time he was a fan of UK band Sweet
Sweet (band)
Sweet was a British rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s as one of the most prominent glam rock acts, with the classic line-up of lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mick Tucker.Sweet was formed in 1968 and achieved their first...
. He completed gymnasium
Gymnasium (school)
A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...
, but did not excel at university
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
. In order to please his intellectual
Intellectual
An intellectual is a person who uses intelligence and critical or analytical reasoning in either a professional or a personal capacity.- Terminology and endeavours :"Intellectual" can denote four types of persons:...
father, he tried to work towards a "real job" by attending a number of University of Sarajevo
University of Sarajevo
The University of Sarajevo is the first university in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was originally established in 1531 as a Madrasah or Islamic Law college, with a modern university being established and expanded on top of that in 1949. Today, with 23 faculties and around 55,000 enrolled students, it...
faculties (mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
, architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
, civil engineering
Civil engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...
, geodesy
Geodesy
Geodesy , also named geodetics, a branch of earth sciences, is the scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth, including its gravitational field, in a three-dimensional time-varying space. Geodesists also study geodynamical phenomena such as crustal...
), but ultimately abandoned each of them before devoting to music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
full-time.
Early years
Tifa started out as a bass guitarBass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
player in the first group he was involved with (Prvi čin). After barely a month, he moved on to Kako kad and only started singing when the lead singer didn't show up for rehearsal
Rehearsal
For other uses, see Rehearsal or Dress rehearsal A rehearsal is a preparatory event in music and theatre that is performed before the official public performance, as a form of practice, and to ensure that all details of the performance are adequately prepared and coordinated for professional...
one day. After some time the band dissolved as everybody except Tifa lost their interest in music. His last band before leaving for the mandatory army
Yugoslav People's Army
The Yugoslav People's Army , also referred to as the Yugoslav National Army , was the military of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.-Origins:The origins of the JNA can...
service in October 1980 was called Paradox.
While in the army he stayed in touch with Zlatan Čehić, Paradox's bass player. Together, they also started working on tracks by mailing packages back and forth containing audio cassettes with Zlatan composing and Tifa writing the lyrics. Upon his return from the army, Tifa learned that Paradox had been dissolved and that Zlatan joined another band named Top, so he took back all of his lyrics and sought a new band to play with, only to eventually end up in Top also. They lasted until January 1983.
In the meantime, word spread around Sarajevo about Tifa's excellent vocal, so people started coming to him with offers of joining their groups. This led to engagements in a few bands, none of which existed long enough to achieve any prominence. Briefly, he was even a fringe member of the freshly re-activated Teška industrija that made use of his lyrics in 1984 to record a few tracks on their comeback album Ponovo s vama ("Again with you"). Around the same time Tifa started drinking
Alcoholism
Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing...
and abusing drugs
Drug abuse
Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, refers to a maladaptive pattern of use of a substance that is not considered dependent. The term "drug abuse" does not exclude dependency, but is otherwise used in a similar manner in nonmedical contexts...
, two vices that would plague him severely later in life.
Bijelo dugme
Just as he was trying to get in touch with Milić VukašinovićMilic Vukašinovic
Milić Vukašinović, a.k.a. Mitch Valiant is a musician from Serbia of Yugoslavian ethnicity. He was the founder of the rock band Vatreni Poljubac and drummer of the famous Yugoslav band Bijelo dugme.Born in Belgrade, he moved with his family to Peć when he was 6 years old...
for a possible stint with his band, Tifa got a dream offer very few struggling musicians would dare refuse. Goran Bregović
Goran Bregovic
Goran Bregović is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans. He currently splits his time between Paris and Belgrade, where he settled down during the Yugoslav Wars.Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora...
invited him to join 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...
, the biggest band in SFR Yugoslavia, as replacement to recently departed Željko Bebek
Željko Bebek
Želimir "Željko" Bebek is a popular Bosnian Croat singer most notable for being the lead vocalist of Bijelo dugme from 1974 to 1984....
. The year was 1984.
Being only 24 years old, Tifa was ill prepared for the instant fame he was about to step into. To make matters even more difficult, his alcoholism and drug use were worse than ever. During most of the recording sessions Tifa was either drunk or stoned, or both, but despite numerous personality issues, Bregović was very much satisfied with the quality of his young singer's voice. After somehow finishing the album
Kosovka Djevojka
Bijelo dugme is the seventh studio album released by Yugoslav rock group Bijelo dugme. Due to Bijelo dugme's usage of the famous painting by Uroš Predić for the album's cover the most widely used name for the album is Kosovka djevojka , despite it officially being a self titled album.Kosovka...
, the band embarked on what would prove to be an extremely troublesome tour. The burden of replacing Željko Bebek
Željko Bebek
Želimir "Željko" Bebek is a popular Bosnian Croat singer most notable for being the lead vocalist of Bijelo dugme from 1974 to 1984....
, lead vocal who spent previous 14 years with the band's various incarnations was just too heavy for Tifa to cope with. Bregović & co., all of whom were considerably older and more mature than their new vocalist, demanded discipline and professional approach, but got neither. To ease the pressure of playing in front of tens of thousands screaming fans every other night Tifa disappeared even further in his chemical addictions, making himself pretty much impossible to deal with. By October 1985, Bregović had finally had enough and kicked him out of the band. Tifa's last performance with Bijelo dugme took place in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
on August 2, 1985.
Post-Dugme
That same year Tifa managed to escape criminal persecution despite being at the wrong end of a drug bust that saw a handful of dealers get arrested. Many have since wondered about the circumstances of the takedown, especially in light of the fact that Bijelo dugme drummer Ipe Ivandić ended up serving 2 years in jail for similar drug possession offence some four years earlier. The widely circulated unofficial story claims Tifa took a snitch deal from the police whereby providing the information they wanted about his suppliers in return for having the charges wiped off.Back on the music front, his first post-Dugme move was a duet with Željko Bebek
Željko Bebek
Želimir "Željko" Bebek is a popular Bosnian Croat singer most notable for being the lead vocalist of Bijelo dugme from 1974 to 1984....
for Bebek's new project Armija B - they sang on a track called "Široko nam toplo polje glamočko". Two former Bijelo dugme frontmen even went on tour together, however proving once again he doesn't function well on the road, Tifa quit right in the middle of it, reasoning that it wasn't very successful anyway.
In the autumn 1986, he finally joined Milić Vukašinović
Milic Vukašinovic
Milić Vukašinović, a.k.a. Mitch Valiant is a musician from Serbia of Yugoslavian ethnicity. He was the founder of the rock band Vatreni Poljubac and drummer of the famous Yugoslav band Bijelo dugme.Born in Belgrade, he moved with his family to Peć when he was 6 years old...
's Vatreni poljubac recording 100% Rock'n'roll album with them.
After failing to settle down there too, Tifa ended up in Divlje jagode
Divlje jagode
Divlje Jagode is a Yugoslav and Bosnian hard rock and heavy metal band.-1970s:Divlje Jagode were formed in 1977 in Bihać by guitarist Zele Lipovača...
, fulfilling Sead Lipovača
Sead Lipovaca
Zele Lipovača , is the lead guitarist and founder of the popular former Yugoslav hard rock band Divlje Jagode....
's wish of replacing Alen Islamović
Alen Islamovic
Alen Islamović is a well-known and popular Bosnian singer in Bosnia and Herzegovina and other former Yugoslav republics...
with someone from "Bregović
Goran Bregovic
Goran Bregović is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans. He currently splits his time between Paris and Belgrade, where he settled down during the Yugoslav Wars.Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora...
's clan" as revenge for Alen's transfer to Bijelo dugme. Tifa participated in the recordings of their album titled Konji and even contributed a track of his own - "Zauvjek tvoj".
After making one album with Divlje jagode, he left the group in 1988 and recorded new material under Tifa & Vlado moniker with keyboards
Synthesizer
A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
player Vlado Prodan (who earlier also played in Divlje Jagode and Armija B). However, no record company showed sufficient interest in releasing the album.
Solo
In 1989 he successfully released his first solo album No1 which he recorded with Tifa Band, a freshly assembled group consisting mostly of musicians from bands he previously played with: Aleksandar Šimpraga (ex Top), Vladimir Podany (ex Divlje jagode), Mustafa Čizmić (ex Bolero), and Veso Grumić (ex Top) with the help of Djordje Ilijin (ex Tako) who played keyboardsSynthesizer
A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
during studio sessions. Tifa wrote most of the songs for the band. Around the same time Tifa tried to negotiate a personal transfer to Atomsko sklonište
Atomsko sklonište
Atomsko sklonište is a Croatian and former Yugoslav hard rock band, formed in Pula in 1977. The band is known primarily for its strong anti-war lyrics.-1977-1987:...
, which sought to replace Sergio Blažić - Đoser, but that never happened.
In early 1990 Tifa performed concerts with new lineup of Tifa Band with Zlatan Čehić (his old collaborator from Paradox days) as one of the members. Tifa then put together a second solo album Samo ljubav postoji together with Zlatan.
He remained in his hometown during most of the siege of Sarajevo
Siege of Sarajevo
The Siege of Sarajevo is the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. Serb forces of the Republika Srpska and the Yugoslav People's Army besieged Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996 during the Bosnian War.After Bosnia...
and even managed to record an album Šareni dan during that time. After getting viciously beaten up by some local heavies, an incident he vehemently refuses to discuss, Tifa left Sarajevo in 1995 for Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. Once there, he first hooked up with Divlje jagode again and then formed his own band. Shortly thereafter he returned to Sarajevo and carried on with a solo career.
2005 Bijelo dugme reunion
In June 2005 he took part in Bijelo dugmeBijelo 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...
reunion for 3 large farewell concerts, but even then the reports of trouble were not far behind. Apparently Tifa and Bebek got into a verbal bust-up backstage at the Sarajevo concert (the first in the series). Then one day before the Belgrade concert (the final one in the series), irritated Tifa blasted Bregovic
Goran Bregovic
Goran Bregović is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans. He currently splits his time between Paris and Belgrade, where he settled down during the Yugoslav Wars.Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora...
and manager Raka Maric in Kurir
Kurir
Kurir is a high-circulation daily tabloid published in Belgrade. Its first issue appeared at the news stands on May 6, 2003.Kurirs tone is abrasive, direct and irreverent. It runs sensationalist stories, the other publications won't touch...
daily tabloid: "Wouldn't you be mad if someone tortured you like this. I haven't had a bite to eat since this morning, I barely had time to take a piss. What's he jerking-off inside now [referring to Bregovic] why aren't we starting already. What am I, a scumbag with nothing better to do than running like a dog after his master!?"
Tifa then continued: "I'm mad at Brega and Raka. It's ridiculous to think we got back together because of emotions. Like we're all just trembling with excitement. Please, gimme a break, this is a swindle of the lifetime and everything is put together for nothing other than cold cash. They paid me well to sing my Dugme songs - I'll gladly do that and then it's see ya later. I hear some are already talking about continuing on with the Dugme thing. No problem, but not with me. After this concert I don't wanna see them again in this or in the next life. Maybe only in the third one. They took a year and a half out of my life, my kid has forgotten what I look like."http://arhiva.kurir-info.rs/Arhiva/2005/jun/29/ST-03-29062005.shtml
He would reunite with Zeljko Bebek and Alen Islamovic to form a group called "Kad Bi Bio Bijelo Dugme" in 2006 and go on a North American tour. They returned once again in 2007 and began their world wide tour which lasted until the end of 2010.
Solo discography
- No1 - 1989
- Samo ljubav postoji - 1990
- Šareni dan - 1994
- Dani bez tebe - 1995
- Grbavica (compilation) - 1997
- No1 ("Hitovi") (compilation) - 1998
- Ostaću s'tobom - 2000
- Skenderija - live - 2001