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Nenad N. Bach is a recording artist

Musician

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, composer, performer, producer and peace activist

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He formed the European chart-topping rock band

Rock Band

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Vrijeme i Zemlja. His USA single, “Can We Go Higher?” was performed at Woodstock '94

Woodstock '94

Woodstock '94, often called the "commercial Woodstock" or "Mudstock", was a music festival organized to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock Festival of 1969...

, is on the album Pavarotti & Friends Together for the Children of Bosnia, and is featured on his album “A Thousand Years Of Peace”. He has also scored many features and short films

Short subject

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, including “King of Cool,” the biopic about the life of Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen

Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen was an American movie actor. He was nicknamed "The King of Cool." His "anti-hero" persona, which he developed at the height of the Vietnam counterculture, made him one of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination...

which premiered on American Movie Classics (AMC). Nenad has performed with a wide range of artists, including Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti

right|thumb|Luciano Pavarotti performing at the opening of the Constantine Palace in [[Strelna]], 31 May 2003. The concert was part of the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of [[St...

, Bono

Bono

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& The Edge

The Edge

David Howell Evans , more widely known by his stage name The Edge , is a musician best known as the guitarist, backing vocalist, and keyboardist of the Irish rock band U2. A member of the group since its inception, he has recorded 12 studio albums with the band and has released one solo record...

(U2), Brian Eno

Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

, Garth Hudson

Garth Hudson

Eric Garth Hudson is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist. As the organist, keyboardist and saxophonist for Canadian-American rock group The Band, he was a principal architect of the group's unique sound...

& Rick Danko

Rick Danko

Richard Clare "Rick" Danko was a Canadian musician and singer, best known as a member of The Band.-Early years :...

(The Band

The Band

The Band was an acclaimed and influential roots rock group. The original group consisted of Rick Danko , Garth Hudson , Richard Manuel , and Robbie Robertson , and Levon Helm...

), Vince Welnick

Vince Welnick

Vince Welnick was an American keyboardist, best known for playing with the band The Tubes during the 1970s and 1980s and with the Grateful Dead in the 1990s.-Music career:...

(Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...

), John Malkovich

John Malkovich

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, Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn

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, Martin Sheen

Martin Sheen

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, Michael York

Michael York

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, and many more. To date he has sold over one million records.

Biography

Born in Zagreb, Croatia

Zagreb

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, Nenad graduated as a civil engineer

Civil engineer

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from the University of Rijeka

University of Rijeka

The University of Rijeka is situated in the city of Rijeka with faculties also located in cities throughout the regions of Primorje, Istria and Lika....

. He was classically trained in violin and flute, and is self-taught

Autodidacticism

Autodidacticism is self-education or self-directed learning. In a sense, autodidacticism is "learning on your own" or "by yourself", and an autodidact is a person who teaches him or herself something. The term has its roots in the Ancient Greek words αὐτός and διδακτικός...

at guitar. His band Vrijeme i Zemlja was formed while he was in college and had two albums with a minor number of sold copies in Yugoslavia ("Vrijeme i Zemlja I" in 1980 and "Takvu te neću" in 1983).

Nenad moved to New York in the 1984, and recorded his first US album, “Greatest Hits” in 1987. The music video of the song "You Need A Love," directed by Webster Lewin, from "Greatest Hits" was played on MTV

MTV

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in the United States.http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7648671087689148206

The song "Can We Go Higher?" was written as a call for peace during the war in Croatia

Croatian War of Independence

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and 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...

. It was released by Sony/Rockworld in 1992. Nenad performed "Can We Go Higher?" at Woodstock '94 in the United States http://www.nenadbach.com/press/Gallery/images/17NenadBachWoodstock.jpg http://www.nenadbach.com/press/Gallery/images/15NenadBach@Woodstock.jpg and in Modena, Italy

Modena

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at the 1995 concert "Pavarotti and Friends" and appears on the album "Pavarotti and Friends - Together for the Children of Bosnia" (1996).http://www.iclassics.com/artist/releases/release.aspx?pid=57889&aid=730 The song is featured on Nenad's album "I Love Losers" (1998), which was re-released as "A Thousand Years of Peace" in 2002. The album, engineered by John Holbrook, features guest artists Garth Hudson (The Band), Vince Welnick http://www.deaddisc.com/GDFD_Vince_Welnick.htm (Grateful Dead), Graham Maby

Graham Maby

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(Joe Jackson

Joe Jackson (musician)

Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001...

), David Amram

David Amram

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, Michael York, Martin Sheen and others.http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Thousand_Years_Of_Peace.htm Quote from The New York Times: "CD to tease the ear. Mr. Bach on vocals, sounding like a cross between Lou Reed

Lou Reed

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...

and Elton John

Elton John

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." http://www.nenadbach.com/press/Presskit/slides/NenadBachNYTimes.html

In 1998 he made a compilation album with Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

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, Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...

, Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

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and others ("News Goo"). http://www.globalvision.org/moreuwatch/goo-page.html

In March 1999 Nenad opened the Miss Universe pageant

Miss Universe

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in Europe, and he scored the Mladen Juran

Mladen Juran

Mladen Juran is a Croatian film director, screenwriter and actor.Juran was born in Zagreb in 1942. He graduated from high school in Split in 1960. After obtaining a diploma from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zagreb in 1964, he went to Paris, where he graduated from the Dramatic...

film Transatlantic
Transatlantic (1998 film)
Transatlantic is a Croatian film directed by Mladen Juran. It was released in 1998....

(1998)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166382/fullcredits which was the Croatian entry for Best Foreign Film in the 1999 Academy Awards

Academy Awards

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.

Nenad and his family were living in New York when the 9/11 attack occurred in 2001. He sang in the recordings of “We Are Family” benefit for the September 11th fund as well as scored the film “The Making and the Meaning of We Are Family.”

Nenad is the creator and Editor in Chief

Editing

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of CROWN (Croatian World Network), an internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

-based news and information source for Croatians and friends of Croatia throughout the world.http://www.croatia.org

On April 17, 2010 Nenad was a TEDxZagreb http://www.tedxzagreb.info speaker and performer http://www.tedxzagreb.info/home/speakers/b/bach,-nenad.aspx

Nenad Bach Recent Discography

Produced "All I Want Is Freedom" by Nenad Bach Band, NBM Ltd. 2010 http://www.nenadbachband.com

Produced "Klapa Luka" by Klapa Luka, NBM Ltd. 2007 http://www.a-cappella.com/product/9256C-nenad-bach-klapa-luka/nenad-bach-music

Produced "Dan Vičere" by Klapa Navalia, NBM Ltd 2007 http://www.a-cappella.com/product/9257C-nenad-bach-klapa-navalia/nenad-bach-music

Produced "Lipo Ime" by Klapa Sinj, NBM Ltd 2005 http://www.a-cappella.com/product/9258C-nenad-bach-klapa-sinj/worldandfolk-mens

Produced "Klapa Fa Lindjo" by Klapa Fa Lindjo

Klapa Fa Lindjo

Klapa Fa Lindjo is an a cappella female group from Dubrovnik, Croatia. The group was founded in 2000 as a part of The Folklore Ensemble Lindjo. In 2002 they won the Golden Token Award at the Verona Festival of Choral Singing in Italy...

, NBM Ltd 2005 http://www.a-cappella.com/product/9255C-klappa-fa-lindo/nenad-bach-music

Re-released enhanced CD

Enhanced CD

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album; "A Thousand Years of Peace"/ NBM Ltd 2002 http://cdbaby.com/cd/nenadbach

Recording Contract

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- performed on charity CD "We Are Family" 2001

Produced CD album "Following the Cross" by St. Stephen's Choir NBM Ltd 2000/ ARCANA 2002 http://www.a-cappella.com/product/11588/worldandfolk-mens

Produced CD album "Novaljo, Novaljo" by Klapa Navalia NBM Ltd 2000

Produced CD album "Fire on the Sea" by Klapa Fortunal NBM Ltd/SIAM records 1999

Released enhanced CD album; "I Love Losers"/NBM Ltd 1996 http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F%252Fax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D4248096%2526id%253D4248173%2526s%253D143441

Performance on "News Goo" compilation album

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with Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Allen Ginsberg and others Mercury/Polygram 1998 http://www.globalvision.org/moreuwatch/goo-page.html

Performance on "Pavarotti and Friends" compilation album with Pavarotti, Bono, The Edge, Meatloaf, Michael Bolton

Michael Bolton

Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter. Bolton originally performed in the hard rock and heavy metal genres from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s, both on his early solo albums and those recorded as the frontman of the band Blackjack...

and others Decca/London 1996

Single "Can We Go Higher?" Rockworld/Sony 1993

Single "Can We Go Higher?" Croatia Records

Croatia Records

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1993

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