Slobodan Kovačević

Slobodan "Bodo" Kovačević (29 December 1946 – 22 March 2004) was a rock guitarists in former Yugoslavia. He began his musical career in the early sixties with the Sarajevo band "Wanderers" and few years later in the mid sixties joined Indexi, where Davorin Popović was already a singer.

Biography In 1978, together with other members of Indexi, he received the April 6 Award from the city of Sarajevo. That same year, he won the JRT (Yugoslav Radio and Television) award for his thematic masterpiece concept album "Dark-Blue River", which was declared album of the year in Yugoslavia. In 2004, he received the Davorin Award for best instrumentalist in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Music career He founded the group Lutalice ("The Wanderers") in 1963, which also included rhythmic guitarist Slobodan M. Kovačević (who later founded the group More), bassist Duško Čorlija, drummer Vojo Šimšić and vocalist Zoran Vidović - Cojo. Additional members were singers Selma Koluder and Gordana Magaš, who later became a Sarajevo ballerina and choreographer. The second lineup consisted of bassist Fadil Redžić and drummer Miroslav Šaranović, both of whom later joined Indexi. A recording from this period is Slobodan Kovačević's first instrumental composition "Snježni kristali" (Snow Crystals), which was recorded in the studios of Radio Sarajevo on 16 April 1965. Kovačević joined Indexi in the summer of 1965, and Fadil Redžić, his Lutalice bandmate, joined soon after. Both of them, along with the singer Davorin Popović, stayed in the band as core members until Popović's death 2001. The first major composition Bodo Kovačević made for Indexi was titled "Pružam ruke" (I Reach Out), with lyrics by Nikola Borota. It was written in late 1966 and was recorded at Radio Sarajevo on 13 February 1967. With this composition, Indexi took part in the Yugoslav selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, which was organized in Ljubljana (the winner was Slovenian singer Lado…Citește mai mult

Pružam ruke (I Reach Out) Prazne noći, a beskrajni dani (Empty Nights and Endless Days)

Plima (Tide) Negdje na kraju u zatišju (Somewhere at the End of the Lull)

Ana (Hannah) Budi kao more (Be Like the Sea)

Ja odlazim sutra (I'm Leaving Tomorrow) Crno bijela pjesma (Black and White Song) Da l' smo ljudi (Are We the People)

Dvojnik (Doppelganger) I bit ću lud (I Will Be Mad)

I još deset (And Ten More) I tvoje će proći (And Yours Will Be Gone)

Leptiru moj (My Butterfly) Zašto je prazan čitav svijet (Why Is the Whole World Empty) Mjesto pod suncem (My Place Under the Sun)

Noćni susreti (Night Encounters) Oko malih stvari svađamo se mi (The Small Things We Argue About)

Samoćo, ljubavi moja (Loneliness, My Love) U inat godinama (In Spite of the Years)