Leo

Leo, born Amir Kazić on 17 October 1965 in Tomina near Sanski Most, is a Bosnian and Croatian pop singer. He started primary school in Ćaplje and finished his schooling in Sanski Most, where he sang and played in the folklore section, the choir and the tamburica band of the Grmeč cultural society. At the start of secondary school he formed his first band, Elektronci, later renamed Jerry, which played throughout his school years.

In 1987 he moved to Istria, where he lives in Brtonigla. In 1988 he met Marin Grgantov and began working with him, and his first LP, Jelena, came out on Diskos in 1989, followed by the singles "Martina" (1991) and "Amir" (1995). At the end of 1995 he began working with Đorđe Novković, and at Dora 1996, Croatia's Eurovision selection, he first used the name Leo, singing "Postojiš samo ti". That year he took third audience prize at OsijekFest with "Hrvatski stari svatovi"; in 1997 he returned to Dora with "Moje nebo", finishing sixth, and won the best interpretation award at OsijekFest.

The album Kreni (1999) was followed by its title duet with Severina, which with "Ljubi, Ljubice" (2002) became his best-known song. Samo svoj (2002), Prokleta ljubav (2005), Krevet od ruža (2007), Bolji nego ja (2010) and U dobrim rukama (2018) followed. He sang duets with Selma Bajrami ("To vodu ne pije", 2005), Dolores Lambaša ("Ne smijem te voljeti", 2011) and Kemal Monteno ("Napiši jednu ljubavnu", 2018), and after a Scandinavian tour he went to Australia in 2001 and 2003 and to America in 2005.

Leo has been a regular at festivals across the region, from Sunčane skale in Herceg Novi ("Milijun", 2003) and Pjesma Mediterana in Budva ("Krevet od ruža", 2007) to the CMC festival in Vodice, and he appeared at Dora a third time in 2009 with the group ARIA. His awards include the Davorin for male vocal of the year in 2006. He has written songs for Zlatko Pejaković, Neda Ukraden, Lepa Brena, Maja Šuput and Martin Vučić, among others, and is a member of the Croatian Music Union and the Croatian Composers' Society.