Jugosloveni

Jugosloveni is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade, formed in 1986 by the singer Zoran Paunović. Its music mixed rock and pop rock with folk rock. Before Jugosloveni, Paunović had been the drummer and songwriter of Magično Oko, with whom he released the albums "Magično Oko" (1984) and "Nešto iz ljubavi" (1985) and played the 1985 YU Rock Misija concert at Red Star Stadium, Yugoslavia's part of Live Aid.

The first line-up had Paunović on vocals, Nenad Maričić on guitar, Dragan Latinčić on bass and Goran Milanović on drums, with Kornelije Kovač on keyboards and Vlada Negovanović on guitar as guests. The debut album, "Došlo mi je da se napijem" (1986), dealt with social topics in Belgrade slang and carried the band's biggest hit, "Jugosloveni", a humorous look at the Yugoslav mentality that became a hit across the country.

For the second album, "Vruće osvežavajuće" (1987), Paunović replaced the whole group, and in the studio he used session players, among them Saša Lokner of Bajaga. A third line-up made "Krici i šaputanja" (1988), after which the band stopped in 1989. Its bass player, Nenad Novaković, later played with Tifa's backing band and died in 1995.

Paunović came back to music in 1998, writing and producing an album for Aleksandra Radić. In 2006 he revived the name Jugosloveni with "Igralište", the old songs re-recorded in a pop-folk style, and in 2013 the band returned with younger musicians and the album "Tvoje ime je ljubav". In 2020 Paunović recorded the single "Balkan" with Zabranjeno Pušenje.