Srđan Marjanović


Srđan Marjanović is a Serbian singer-songwriter from Belgrade.

Musical career

Early career

Marjanović was born in 1952 in Banja Luka. In 1961, he moved to Belgrade, where he became interested in rock music. He played guitar in the bands Svici, Usamljeni and Gru. In 1971, he travelled to Sweden, where he performed songs by Donovan and Bob Dylan, accompanying himself with a guitar and a harmonica.

1972 and onwards

Marjanović returned to Belgrade in 1972, and soon became a part of the Belgrade acoustic rock scene. At the time he also performed in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar, played in Atelje 212, playing one of the priests.
In 1973, at the Festival Omladina, he won the Jury Award for the song "Tražim". During the same year, he appeared at the Zagreb Festival with the song "Prvi put sretni". In 1974, at the Opatija Festival, he performed the song "Ja te volim, ljubavi". These songs were released on 7" singles, which Marjanović recorded with bass guitarist Dušan Ćućuz and drummer Mića Lolić "Žorž". After he ended the cooperation with the two, Marjanović recorded and played with the band SOS, with keyboardist Đorđe Petrović occasionally joining them. He often performed the opening act on YU Grupa concerts, and he performed as the opening act on Belgrade concert of the British band Soft Machine.
He recorded his first studio album, entitled Srđan Marjanović i prijatelji in 1974, with the members of YU Grupa. The backing vocals on the album were sung by the members of the acoustic rock band Zajedno, among which was, at the time, Bora Đorđević. In the autumn of 1975, Marjanović and three other singer-songwriters, Drago Mlinarec, Ivica Percl and Tomaž Domicelj, held a month-long tour entitled Četvorica za mir.
In 1978, Marjanović went to serve the army. After returning from the army, he formed his backing band, Puma, which featured Božidar Kazanić on bass guitar, Petar Jablanov on drums and Slobodan Milivojević on keyboards. For a short period of time, Ratislav Đelmaš and Luka Bošković were the band's drummers. On the 1979 two months-tour across Soviet Union Marjanović went with the band Nova Dimenzija.
During the summer of 1979, in Tetrapak Studio in Split, Marjanović recorded his second album, Kod mene imaš veliki plus. The album featured Dušan Ćućuz, drummer Steva Stevanović and keyboardist Dragan Miloradović. The album's hits were "Mi smo jedno drugom govorili vi", "Nije ti se htelo", "Zaustavite muziku" and a new version of the song "Idi", previously released on a 7" single.
Marjanović released his third album, Uvek ima neki đavo, in 1980 with Puma. The album was produced by Marjanović himself- It featured a new, harder version of his old song "Ne ostavljaj me sad" In 1981, Marjanović released his fourth studio album, Ne kači se za mene, and in 1982 his fifth studio album, Senti-Menti. Senti-Menti featured Halil Barjaktar on bass guitar, Aleksandar Stanojević on keyboards, Jovan Đukanović on drums, and members of the girl group Aska on backing vocals. In 1983, he released the album Ne pucaj na plavog anđela. In 1984, he released the album Lopov!, which featured Boban Birtašević on bass guitar, and which saw little publicity.
In 1986, he released new album, entitled Sam, as it was his first album recorded without Puma, and featuring mostly Ballads. The bass guitar was played by Branko Marinković, drums and percussion by Ljubiša Stojanović "Louis", and the keyboards by Slobodan Milivojević. The Backing vocals were sung by Mira Baširević, and the album was produced by Marjanović and Rade Radivojević. In 1989, he released the album Ako jednom puknem ja, on which one side consisted of his songs, and the second of covers of ballads by Yugoslav artists: "Selma", "Ti samo budi dovoljno daleko", "Zašto", and "Da li znaš da te volim".
In 1994, Marjanović recorded the double album Priznaću sve. The album, recorded with former Tako guitarist Miroslav Dukić, featured five new songs and three old songs rerecorded. During the same year, his songs "Kad bih smeo, kad bi hetla" and "Blues za usnu harmoniku" were released on Komuna compilation albums ' and ' respectively. In 1998, the compilation album Nežno 1974. – 1998. was released. The album featured a new version of "Mi smo jedno drugom govorili vi".
In 2001, he released the album Melanholik. Three years later, he released the album Jednoj jedinoj. In 2010, he released the double album Poslednji album, first disc featuring ten new songs, and the second featuring eighteen old songs. The song "Ko te pita" is a duet with Tomaž Domicelj.

Career as a producer

Beside producing his own albums, Marjanović has also produced Slomljena Stakla debut album, Psiho klub, Balkan album Homobalacanicus, Mirjana Beširević album Vrati se, Nenad Radulović's only solo album, Niko nema što piton imade and Gerila album Kralj ulice.

Other activities

Marjanović wrote about rock music for Zum reporter, ITD, Večernje novosti and Ćao. At the beginning of the 1990s, he was an editor of Ćao's discographic activity. In 1983, he opened the studio Cepelin and became a producer in the Belgrade branch of ZKP RTLJ record label.

Discography

Studio albums