Davorin Popovic - TI SI MI BILA NAJ, NAJ / INDEXI 1977 /

Davorin Popović (1946-2001) was lead singer and a front man of the progressive rock and pop band Indexi, throughout most of their career - the voice and the face with whom many associated the very image of the band. Being a popular bohemian urban legend of his hometown Sarajevo (and also a successful basketball player in his youth), he deserved nicknames like Pimpek, Davor or simply Pjevac (The Singer) due to his unique nasal voice.

In parallel with the group work he pursued solo career between 1975-1996, albeit in a non-continuous manner. On most of his solo works one or another line-up of INDEXI played as backing studio musicians, so his solo career is closely related with that of the band itself. This was also stressed in the album titles when they are usually credited to Davorin and Indexi or similar. During the siege of Sarajevo in 1995 he represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin with the song "Dvadeset prvi vijek" ("21st Century"), finishing in 19th place of the 23 entries.

Some of the most popular songs commonly associated with Indexi were actually issued as Davorin's solo works, such as "I pad je let" ("To Fall Is To Fly") or "U tebi se zena radja" ("You're Becoming a Woman") from his debut LP Svaka je ljubav ista (osim one prave) (Every Love Is the Same, Except the True One) from 1976, which was oddly the first studio album with entirely new songs that was recorded by Indexi as a group (they used to issue singles and compilations rather than studio albums). It was however released as Davorin's solo effort because the band was working on their prog masterpiece Modra rijeka at that time.

Music on Popovic's solo albums is generally closer to mainstream pop rock and easy-listening schlager songs, although here and there one could find several very good rock moments sometimes close or related to progressive rock.

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