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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.
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'.