On January 29th 1967 a fat baby was born. Parents named him

                                          Bruno


According to the family lore I was less than two years old when they heard me sing Ja sam mala ruža (I'm a Little Rosie).
I don't remember that part but I do remember my dad showing his eight-year-old some cool guitar chords. They were D, G and A major and I discovered I can play a lot of songs using only those three chords. Somewhere in my boyish head a big door opened. I was amazed. I think I still am.
The same year I began practicing violin in a music school. Four years later I play the clarinet. Two years later it's the saxophone.

It's the beginning of the eighties, I am already a Beatle fan, I've been to a Weather Report concert and I consider myself a participant of the New Wave, an art movement that swept Yugoslavia (Croatia was a part of Yugoslavia in those days) off its feet. Some new and fresh bands were emerging and I loved their music.

I was fifteen when D Day (Dan D) was formed. There were five of us, I was in charge of singing, playing sax and writing music.
D Day lasted for five years, won all demo band contests, played hundreds of gigs but remained a demo band. We never signed a record deal and I sometimes wonder what would have happened.

It's 1988 I am recruited by the greatest Croatian rock band The Steam Roller (Parni valjak). I am twenty one and I can't believe my luck.
The whole of 1989 we're touring around Yugoslavia. I had a roadie, a brand new Marshall Jubilee and I was earning well.
In 1990 we finished a new record and are on the road again.
In 1991 we recorded a triple live album in Zagreb's Sports Arena .

This is also the year in which I started to feel it was time to move on. I wanted to learn more about music and what better place to do that than Los Angeles.
Musicians Institute is a Contemporary Music School in L. A. and I was really excited when I got there. My excitement lasted for couple of months when I started to explore the instrument on my own. But everyone I ever wanted to see in concert played in L.A. so I enjoyed the 15 months spent there very much and my playing skills improved by 100%. I played with the group called Vanity Kills but after six months or so I just needed to go home.


It is the fall of 1992 and there is a war in my country. But music is alive and somehow very important to people.
I join a hard rock band Hard Time and their charismatic leader Pishta.

In 1993 I got a call from Gibonni, a guy I met two years earlier, saying he was trying to present his new album and he'd like me to join him.
I like his songs so I agree.
Following five years went by in a flash if you ask me. Gibonni made it big right after I joined him so we played on stadiums and Sport Arenas all over the country. We recorded two studio albums and a live one. I was arranging, producing, playing and singing in Gibonni's band.  The band was excellent, we had a great time together.
And then we split.

1998 is the year I got married! My wife's name is Ivana, she is a singer and I'm a songwriter. So I write songs for her. In 1995 we had a big hit, a song called Mala ptica nebeska (Little Bird in the Sky). It was No. 1 for months. Her second album was out in 1997 and we were successful again. But now she was pregnant so singing gave way to hosting a TV show for kids, something she was doing for a year or so.
Today ( 2009 ) we have two sons, Jan and Vigo and they are both musically talented.
1998 is also the year I started writing songs for Vanna, one of the best singers Croatia ever had. I also produced and arranged songs for her and finally I joined her band.
Ten years later I still write songs for this amazing singer.
Among many singers I wrote songs for, one other name is worth singling out and that is Oliver, Croatia's best and most popular singer.