Vojislav Simić better known as "Bubiša", is a Serbia

Serbia

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n musician, conductor, composer and the pioneer of Serbian Ethno-Jazz.

Simić was born on March 18, 1924 in Belgrade

Belgrade

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, Yugoslavia, and is well known as a conductor of Belgrade's Television Jazz Orchestra, composer of numerous jazz compositions, traditional liturgical choral and orchestral music, ethno-jazz compositions as well as children's music.
From 1953 to 1985, Vojislav Simic and his Belgrade's Television Jazz Orchestra performed throughout entire Europe, collecting numerous awards and winning numerous competitions, including the well-known Juan Le Pen Jazz Festival in France

France

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, where they won The First Prize in 1960.
Simić was also a guest conductor in numerous theatres in former Yugoslavia and guest composer at children's festivals throughout Serbia, being influenced 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 ....

, Serbian writer and poet.
He resides in Belgrade, Serbia and is married, with two daughters and three grandchildren.