Nikola Pejaković
Nikola Pejaković | |
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, rock | |
Instrument(s) | vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica |
Years active | since the mid-1980s |
Labels | System Records |
Nikola Pejaković (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Пејаковић; born 16 September 1966) is a Serbian actor, screenwriter and musician. After finishing Secondary Art School he entered the Art Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, department of theater directing. Beside his acting career, Pejaković is also a musician, playing the guitar, piano and harmonica. Since he was born without a little finger on his right hand, he is a four fingered guitarist, registered at the American Coalition for Disabled Musicians. He composed the ultimate kafana hit "Haljinica boje lila" ("Lilac-colored dress").
Pejaković wrote scenarios and appeared as actor in the movies
Career as musician
Kolja i Smak Bijelog Dugmeta
The songs Pejaković had composed during the mid-1980s were released on his debut album Mama, nemoj plakati (Mum, do not cry), released by System Records in 2001. Influenced by diverse range genres and crossing them with witty and a bit vulgar lyrics, Pejaković described his musical style as "porn soul". The songs were recorded with a studio backing band, which he named Smak Bijelog Dugmeta (a witty remark on the two popular 1970s Yugoslav bands, Smak and Bijelo Dugme), composed of Saša Lokner (keyboards), Vojislav Aralica (album producer, guitar, bass, keyboards) and Dejan Momčilović (drums). For the album cover, Pejaković chose Dragan Papić's work called "Žalim slučaj" ("So sorry"). The album was recorded between 25 October 1998 and 13 January 1999 at the Goran Kostić Go-Go studio in Belgrade. During the same year, he also appeared as the writer of the Oleg Novković's Normalni ljudi (Normal people) movie soundtrack, and in 2005 he wrote the Wedding short movie soundtrack, both of which never officially released on a soundtrack album.
From December 2004 until August of the following year, Pejaković once again entered the Go-Go studio in order to record the material for his second solo album, but it was not until 2009 that the album Kolja was released, once again through System Records. Pejaković recorded the album with the backing vocalists Jasmina Nunić Pera and Tamara Aralica, producer Vojislav Aralica who recorded keyboards, slide, acoustic, electric and bass guitar, Ivan Aleksijević on organ and keyboards, Neša Petrović on alt saxophone and Dejan Sparavalo on violin. In order to promote the album release, Pejaković also recorded a cover version of the Šarlo Akrobata song "Samo ponekad" ("Just occasionally"), released for free digital download at the System Records official site.[1]
"Haljinica boje lila"
Pejaković wrote the
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Discography
Studio albums
- Mama, nemoj plakati (2001)
- Kolja (2009)
- Grobovlasnici (2013)
- 4 Prsta (2018)
Singles
- "Samo ponekad" (2009)
- "Svaku noć je isti mrak" (2018)
References
- ^ "KOLJA - Album 2013". System Records.
- ^ Radisavljević, Irena (29 June 2008). "Da mogu, promenio bih ceo život". blic.rs.
Sources
- EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960–2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4