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How Goran Bregović survived the war years in former Yugoslavia: This was the only job they offered me

Goran Bregović is one of our most successful singer-songwriters, and according to his admission in an interview, he stated that composing music for films helped him survive the war years in former Yugoslavia in the early nineties.

How Goran Bregović survived the war years in former Yugoslavia: This was the only job they offered me

TL;DR

  • Goran Bregović stated that composing music for films helped him survive the war years in the former Yugoslavia.
  • During the war, Bregović was in exile in Paris and found film scoring to be the only job offered to him.
  • His success with the film 'Time of the Gypsies' led to an offer to compose music for films.
  • Bregović considers his film composer biography to have been created during the war period.
  • He continues to compose film music, with his recent work including the score for the film 'Harvest'.