Mirzino Jato

Mirzino Jato ("Mirza's flock") was a disco-pop group from Sarajevo, formed at the end of the 1970s under the influence of the German disco group Boney M. It was made up of the deep-voiced singer Mirza Alijagić and two singers, Zumreta "Zuzi" Midžić, known as Zuzi Zu, and Gordana Ivandić, the sister of Bijelo Dugme drummer Goran "Ipe" Ivandić.

Before the group, Midžić and Ivandić had sung backing vocals on a big Yugoslav tour of Indexi and Zdravko Čolić, and then formed the disco duo Rok Hotel, which released the single "Disco / Blue jeans". When the duo ended, they joined Alijagić.

The debut single, "Apsolutno tvoj" with "Pada snijeg" on the B-side, came out on PGP RTB in Belgrade in 1979. Music and arrangements for both songs were by the rock guitarist Sead "Zele" Lipovača of Divlje Jagode, with lyrics by Marina Tucaković for "Apsolutno tvoj" and by Duško Trifunović for "Pada snijeg". Built on Alijagić's deep baritone, the group's trademark, with the two women's voices around it, the single was a big success. The same year brought the album Šećer i med, written by Lipovača with lyrics by Tucaković, and the single "Normalna stvar" / "Bez rezultata", followed in 1980 by "Ja bih da me druga mazi" / "Zvijezda i alkohol", which they sang at Vaš šlager sezone in Sarajevo.

The second album, Najslađi rode (1983), was written by members of the group Zana, and Mirzino Jato split up shortly after it came out. Alijagić continued his career as a bass at the Sarajevo opera, Gordana Ivandić became the singer of Makadam, and Zuzi Zu went solo, singing pop, rock, Roma songs and sevdalinke and singing backing vocals for Bijelo Dugme on Pljuni i zapjevaj moja Jugoslavijo. Alijagić briefly revived Mirzino Jato in 1994 for an album called Mirzino Jato, and the group sang "Oka dva garava" at the Forte festival in Sarajevo in 1999.

"Apsolutno tvoj" is the song Mirzino Jato is remembered for; Serbian Wikipedia calls it the group's only hit, and it has been enjoying a new wave of popularity in the Balkans in recent years. In 2024 Croatia Records released the album King Is Back, after several years of preparation for a comeback.