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ja Koter, BOJAN ADAMIÈ: THE CORRELATION BETWEEN HIS CREATIVE AND ...
Slovenska popevka appeared in Bled. The festival was moved to Ljubljana two years later.
Adamiè wrote his first popular songs as early as the late 40’s (compositions such as
Barbara, 1949).
Photo 3: Radio Ljubljana Dance Orchestra with Bojan Adamiè and Majda Sepe (family archive).
He frequently worked with singers such as Marjana Der aj, Beti Jurkoviè, and Majda
Sepe. He had an excellent sense for discovering talent and should be credited with helping
to launch the successful career of many singers from the former Yugoslav scene. Among
others, he discovered Gabi Novak in 1957 when he heard her voice in the synchronization
of Croatian animated films. He wrote the arrangements for her debut in Zagreb, where she
was hugely successful. Having an outstanding sense for recognizing musical capacities,
he was capable of perceiving both the strengths and weaknesses of singers, as was the case
at his first meeting with Vice Vukov at the Opatija festival in 1959. Vukov was a
promising singer, which Adamiè recognized immediately, and he made the effort to
correct his singing as well as to encourage him to perfect it. Later, Vukov enjoyed success
as an international star. Similarly, Adamiè recognized the singing abilities of Ðorðe
Marjanoviæ, whom he especially appreciated for his interpretation abilities. The list of
popular songs that Adamiè wrote are so numerous, it is almost impossible to put a number
on them. The compositions he authored were quite different in comparison with other
contemporary works. In all probability they contained a little too much of his own artistic
charge, seeing as they never scored much success, at least not with juries, and that he was
never awarded an acknowledgement or prize in this particular genre. It seemed as if
Adamiè would rather stand by his principles and his own high criteria than to indulge or
comply with the taste of the masses. His greatest success as regards popular songs was the
composition Zlati april (‘Golden April’), performed by Marjana Der aj, which reached
the finals for the selection of the Yugoslavia Eurovision entry in 1964.39 Throughout his
life, Adamiè actively participated in various roles at pop song festivals, such as Vesela
jesen (Maribor), Kajkavska popevka in Krapina (Croatia), Melodije Istre in Kvarnerja
39 From Adamiè’s memoirs, accessible at http://www.bojan-adamic.si/biografija#festivali, November 26th,
1912.
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Slovenska popevka appeared in Bled. The festival was moved to Ljubljana two years later.
Adamiè wrote his first popular songs as early as the late 40’s (compositions such as
Barbara, 1949).
Photo 3: Radio Ljubljana Dance Orchestra with Bojan Adamiè and Majda Sepe (family archive).
He frequently worked with singers such as Marjana Der aj, Beti Jurkoviè, and Majda
Sepe. He had an excellent sense for discovering talent and should be credited with helping
to launch the successful career of many singers from the former Yugoslav scene. Among
others, he discovered Gabi Novak in 1957 when he heard her voice in the synchronization
of Croatian animated films. He wrote the arrangements for her debut in Zagreb, where she
was hugely successful. Having an outstanding sense for recognizing musical capacities,
he was capable of perceiving both the strengths and weaknesses of singers, as was the case
at his first meeting with Vice Vukov at the Opatija festival in 1959. Vukov was a
promising singer, which Adamiè recognized immediately, and he made the effort to
correct his singing as well as to encourage him to perfect it. Later, Vukov enjoyed success
as an international star. Similarly, Adamiè recognized the singing abilities of Ðorðe
Marjanoviæ, whom he especially appreciated for his interpretation abilities. The list of
popular songs that Adamiè wrote are so numerous, it is almost impossible to put a number
on them. The compositions he authored were quite different in comparison with other
contemporary works. In all probability they contained a little too much of his own artistic
charge, seeing as they never scored much success, at least not with juries, and that he was
never awarded an acknowledgement or prize in this particular genre. It seemed as if
Adamiè would rather stand by his principles and his own high criteria than to indulge or
comply with the taste of the masses. His greatest success as regards popular songs was the
composition Zlati april (‘Golden April’), performed by Marjana Der aj, which reached
the finals for the selection of the Yugoslavia Eurovision entry in 1964.39 Throughout his
life, Adamiè actively participated in various roles at pop song festivals, such as Vesela
jesen (Maribor), Kajkavska popevka in Krapina (Croatia), Melodije Istre in Kvarnerja
39 From Adamiè’s memoirs, accessible at http://www.bojan-adamic.si/biografija#festivali, November 26th,
1912.
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