Darko Jelcic
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Darko "Cunja" Jelčić is a Yugoslavia
n musician best known for having been Crvena Jabuka
's drummer from their initial inception in 1985, to the present day. Next to Dražen Žerić
, he is the only standing member to exist in every line-up change that the band has gone through.
Jelčić was born in Zenica on New Year's Day
, 1965. As a child, he loved to listen to records (notably folk artists such as Safet Isović
, Kemal Monteno
, and Halid Bešlić
) as well as bands such as Indexi
. At only 13 or 14 years of age, his uncle bought him a drum kit as a Christmas
present, and Jelčić quickly learned to play drums without anyone showing him anything.
In 1974, Jelčić relocated to Sarajevo
with his family, and formed the band Flott. While the band was mostly progressive pop, and a great influence on the Yugoslav musical scene, they were not too successful, and disbanded after having been together for less than ten years.
In the 1980s as the New Primitives
movement was taking over, and Flott coming apart, Jelčić began to hang around various bars in hopes of getting attracted. In the meantime, he released two solo albums: Cunja in 1983, and Isti Zivot (The Same Life) in 1984.
In April, 1985, Jelčić was invited to audition for a band who was looking for a drummer. This would eventually form what is known today as Crvena Jabuka
. The band released their debut album in the spring of the following year, and it proved to be a great success. Following the release of the album, Crvena Jabuka headed off for their first show in Mostar
. However, disaster struck, the band took two cars, and a car accident occurred killing both bassist Aljosa Buha
, and singer/guitarist Drazen Ricl
.
In memory of the two late members, Crvena Jabuka (as did many other bands) held a tribute concert at Skenderija
in Sarajevo
on 10 October 1986. While the band meant to go on a one-year hiatus of silence, they decided to go back into the studio and finish up what would be their second studio album Za sve ove godine
as a tribute to Buha and Ricl. The band worked as a three-piece band for this album and the rest of the '80s.
Jelčić took most of the time in the war off, but released another studio album Ploce u Prozoru (Records in the Window) in 1990.
In 1994, Drazen Zeric
rejoined forces with Jelčić and decided it was time to reconstruct Crvena Jabuka. After the reconstruction, they had major success once again, and had moved to a more adult contemporary sound as opposed to their '80s style of music.
Jelčić released two more albums: Cunja 2 in 1997, and Sve Najbolje (All The Best) in 1999.
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n musician best known for having been Crvena Jabuka
Crvena jabuka
Crvena jabuka is a Sarajevo-based pop band that originated in 1985, and since then has remained very popular. They were also a part of the so called New Primitives movement that occurred in the 1980s in the Former Yugoslavia territory....
's drummer from their initial inception in 1985, to the present day. Next to Dražen Žerić
Dražen Žeric
Dražen Žerić Žera is a Bosnian singer and one of the founders and the leading vocal of a famous Bosnian band, Crvena jabuka ....
, he is the only standing member to exist in every line-up change that the band has gone through.
Jelčić was born in Zenica on New Year's Day
New Year's Day
New Year's Day is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar used in ancient Rome...
, 1965. As a child, he loved to listen to records (notably folk artists such as Safet Isović
Safet Isovic
Safet Isović was a prominent and popular sevdah performer from Bosnia and Herzegovina.Throughout his career, which started in 1956, Isović performed at music festivals and won many of them which has contributed to the prevalence and popularity of the sevdalinka...
, Kemal Monteno
Kemal Monteno
Kemal Monteno is a popular Bosnian singer-songwriter. He was born to an Italian father and a Bosniak mother. He recorded his first song Lidija in 1967 and has enjoyed a prosperous career in the former Yugoslavia...
, and Halid Bešlić
Halid Bešlić
Halid Bešlić is a prominent Bosnian folk and sevdah musician and singer who has been performing since 1979. Halid's singing career was one of the most successful in Ex Yugoslavia, and continues today throughout the entire Balkan region....
) as well as bands such as 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...
. At only 13 or 14 years of age, his uncle bought him a drum kit as a Christmas
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
present, and Jelčić quickly learned to play drums without anyone showing him anything.
In 1974, Jelčić relocated to Sarajevo
Sarajevo
Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....
with his family, and formed the band Flott. While the band was mostly progressive pop, and a great influence on the Yugoslav musical scene, they were not too successful, and disbanded after having been together for less than ten years.
In the 1980s as the New Primitives
New Primitives
New Primitivism was an urban subcultural movement that originated in Sarajevo during early-to-mid 1980s. The movement was identified with Zabranjeno pušenje and Elvis J. Kurtović & His Meteors bands, whose members were the driving forces behind it. Its creators and most notable personalities...
movement was taking over, and Flott coming apart, Jelčić began to hang around various bars in hopes of getting attracted. In the meantime, he released two solo albums: Cunja in 1983, and Isti Zivot (The Same Life) in 1984.
In April, 1985, Jelčić was invited to audition for a band who was looking for a drummer. This would eventually form what is known today as Crvena Jabuka
Crvena jabuka
Crvena jabuka is a Sarajevo-based pop band that originated in 1985, and since then has remained very popular. They were also a part of the so called New Primitives movement that occurred in the 1980s in the Former Yugoslavia territory....
. The band released their debut album in the spring of the following year, and it proved to be a great success. Following the release of the album, Crvena Jabuka headed off for their first show in Mostar
Mostar
Mostar is a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the largest and one of the most important cities in the Herzegovina region and the center of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation. Mostar is situated on the Neretva river and is the fifth-largest city in the country...
. However, disaster struck, the band took two cars, and a car accident occurred killing both bassist Aljosa Buha
Aljoša Buha
Aljoša Buha was a Bosnian musician best known for having played in two bands: Kongress, and Crvena jabuka.In 1979 Buha formed Kongres as bassist/lead singer. He stayed with them until about 1983 when he took a break.Aljoša Buha was recruited in Crvena Jabuka in 1986 as bass player...
, and singer/guitarist Drazen Ricl
Dražen Ricl
Dražen Ričl was a Yugoslav rock musician, best known as the first lead vocalist of the extremely popular Sarajevo based rock band Crvena jabuka.Ričl was born and raised in the Koševo neighborhood of Sarajevo, where he was best known by the nicknames Para...
.
In memory of the two late members, Crvena Jabuka (as did many other bands) held a tribute concert at Skenderija
Skenderija
Skenderija is a city center in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was constructed in 1969 as a cultural and sport center, but was later revitalized and expanded for the 1984 Winter Olympic Games. Below the structure is a shopping mall...
in Sarajevo
Sarajevo
Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....
on 10 October 1986. While the band meant to go on a one-year hiatus of silence, they decided to go back into the studio and finish up what would be their second studio album Za sve ove godine
Za sve ove godine
Za sve ove godine is the second album by the Sarajevo based pop band Crvena jabuka. It was released in 1987.This album was meant to be a tribute album to the band's two lost members: bassist Aljoša Buha and singer and guitarist Dražen Ričl-Zijo...
as a tribute to Buha and Ricl. The band worked as a three-piece band for this album and the rest of the '80s.
Jelčić took most of the time in the war off, but released another studio album Ploce u Prozoru (Records in the Window) in 1990.
In 1994, Drazen Zeric
Dražen Žeric
Dražen Žerić Žera is a Bosnian singer and one of the founders and the leading vocal of a famous Bosnian band, Crvena jabuka ....
rejoined forces with Jelčić and decided it was time to reconstruct Crvena Jabuka. After the reconstruction, they had major success once again, and had moved to a more adult contemporary sound as opposed to their '80s style of music.
Jelčić released two more albums: Cunja 2 in 1997, and Sve Najbolje (All The Best) in 1999.
Flott
- Flott - 1974
- Ljubav u Zatvoru (Love in Prison) - 1978
- Zivot je Ljep (Life is Beautiful) - 1979
- Kosa u Suncu (Hair in the Sun) - 1981
- Live...For the First Time - 1982
- More Live Music - 1984
- Flott-The Best Of - 1985
Studio Albums
- Crvena jabuka - 1986
- Za sve ove godineZa sve ove godineZa sve ove godine is the second album by the Sarajevo based pop band Crvena jabuka. It was released in 1987.This album was meant to be a tribute album to the band's two lost members: bassist Aljoša Buha and singer and guitarist Dražen Ričl-Zijo...
(For all these Years) - 1987 - SanjatiSanjatiSanjati is the third studio album by the Sarajevo-based pop band Crvena jabuka. The album was released in 1988. In the ex-Yugoslavian territory it sold over 250,000 copies....
(To Dream) - 1988 - Tamo gdje ljubav počinjeTamo gdje ljubav pocinjeTamo gdje ljubav počinje is the fourth studio album from the Zagreb based pop rock band Crvena jabuka. The album was released in 1989.This album is mostly centered on love songs, and has six singles. After the release of this album there was a tour that lasted to near the start of 1990...
(Where the Love Begins) - 1989 - Nekako s' proljecaNekako s' proljecaNekako s' proljeća is the fifth studio album by the extremely popular Sarajevo based pop rock band Crvena jabuka. The album was released during 1991.Nekako s' Projeca's title track features a guest contribution with Kemal Monteno...
(In the Springtime) - 1991 - U tvojim ocimaU tvojim ocimaU tvojim očima is the sixth studio album by the Sarajevo band Crvena jabuka. The album was originally released on November 17th 1996.-Information:This album was the first to have Crvena jabuka in their new lineup...
(In Your Eyes) - 1996 - Svjet je lopta sarena (The World is a Colorful Ball) - 1998
- Sve sto sanjamSve što sanjamSve Sto Sanjam is a concept album by the Bosnian pop band Crvena Jabuka, released in spring 2000. The album was recorded in the Rockoko Studio in Zagreb where many of the band's albums have been, and still are, recorded. In many places this album is sold with white and blue, but some may have it in...
(Everything I Dream) - 2000 - Tvojim zelama Voden (Led by Your Wishes) - 2002
- Oprosti sto je ljubavna pjesmaOprosti što je ljubavna pjesmaOprosti što je ljubavna pjesma is the tenth studio album by the Sarajevo based pop group Crvena jabuka. This album was officially released in 2005.With the release of this album, Crvena jabuka's popularity started to go downhill...
(Forgive me for this Love Song) - 2005 - Dusa sarajevaDuša SarajevaDuša Sarajeva is Crvena jabuka's 2007 album. In the previous album, entitled Oprosti što je ljubavna pjesma, the band slowly started to lose popularity. This album is said to be bringing it back. The influences in this album are mostly from other European countries...
(The Soul of Sarajevo) - 2007 - Volim teVolim TeVolim Te is the latest release from the Sarajevo based pop rock band Crvena Jabuka. It was released in 2009. The album contains a wide array of love songs since vocalist Drazen Zeric got married the previous year.-Track listing:#Mnogo Ruza#Pravi Ljudi...
(I Love You) - 2009
Live Albums
- Uzmi me kad hoces ti (Take me when you want To) - 1990
- LIVE - 1998
- Riznice SjecanjaRiznice sjecanjaRiznice Sjecanja is an unplugged album by the Bosnian pop band Crvena Jabuka. This album was released in 1999. It includes many of the band's best hit singles in unplugged format and was recorded on 13 March and 14 March of that same year in Zagreb's OTV auditorium.-Track listing:##Twist and...
-unplugged - 1999
Compilations
- Ima Nesto od Srca do SrcaIma nešto od srca do srcaIma nešto od srca do srca is a compilation album released by the Bosnian band Crvena jabuka. The compilation was released by HNZ Croatia Records in 1993 while the band was doing a detour.-Album information:...
(There is Something from heart to Heart) - 1993 - Moje NajmilijeMoje najmilijeMoje najmilije is the second compilation album by the Sarajevo band Crvena jabuka. It was released in 1997.-Information:This compilation contains 19 singles in non-chronological order...
(My Dearest) - 1997 - Antologija (The Anthology) - 2003
- Zlatna KolekcijaZlatna kolekcijaZlatna kolekcija is a compilation album by the Sarajevo pop band Crvena jabuka. The album was released in 2005.-Information:Zlatna kolekcija is a 2 CD compilation album which has 38 of Crvena jabuka's singles in chronological order from 1986 to 2002...
(The Golden Collection) - 2005
Solo
- Cunja - 1983
- Isti zivot (Same life) - 1984
- Ploce u Prozoru (Records in the Window) - 1989/1990
- Cunja II - 1997
- Bez Kraja-Sve Najbolje (Without an end, All the Best) - 1999(compilation)
- Dame i Gospodo (Ladies and Gentlemen) - 2002 (Boxed set with music by Flott, Crvena Jabuka, and Darko Jelčić)