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Jan 01, 1965 Zenica, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina 59 years old
Bosnian musician
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About Darko Jeli
- Darko "Cunja" Jelcic (born 1 January 1965 in Zenica, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian musician best known for having been Crvena Jabuka's drummer from their initial inception in 1985, to the present day.
- Next to Dražen Žeric, he is the only standing member to exist in every line-up change that the band has gone through. Jelcic was born in Zenica on New Year's Day, 1965.
- As a child, he loved to listen to records (notably folk artists such as Safet Isovic, Kemal Monteno, and Halid Bešlic) as well as bands such as Indexi.
- At only 13 or 14 years of age, his uncle bought him a drum kit as a Christmas present, and Jelcic quickly learned to play drums without anyone showing him anything. In 1974, Jelcic relocated to Sarajevo with his family, and formed the band Flott.
- While the band was mostly progressive pop, and a great influence on the Yugoslav musical scene, they were not too successful, and disbanded after having been together for less than ten years. In the 1980s as the New Primitives movement was taking over, and Flott coming apart, Jelcic began to hang around various bars in hopes of getting attracted.
- In the meantime, he released two solo albums: Cunja in 1983, and Isti Život (The Same Life) in 1984. In April 1985, Jelcic was invited to audition for a band who was looking for a drummer.
- This would eventually form what is known today as Crvena Jabuka.
- The band released their debut album in the spring of the following year, and it proved to be a great success.
- Following the release of the album, Crvena Jabuka headed off for their first show in Mostar.
- However, disaster struck, the band took two cars, and a car accident occurred killing both bassist Aljoša Buha, and singer/guitarist Dražen Ricl. In memory of the two late members, Crvena Jabuka (as did many other bands) held a tribute concert at Skenderija in Sarajevo on 10 October 1986.
- While the band meant to go on a one-year hiatus of silence, they decided to go back into the studio and finish up what would be their second studio album Za sve ove godine as a tribute to Buha and Ricl.
- The band worked as a three-piece band for this album and the rest of the '80s. Jelcic took most of the time in the war off, but released another studio album Ploce u Prozoru (Records in the Window) in 1990. In 1994, Dražen Žeric rejoined forces with Jelcic and decided it was time to reconstruct Crvena Jabuka.
- After the reconstruction, they had major success once again with a more adult-oriented sound as opposed to their 1980s style of music.Jelcic released two more albums: Cunja 2 in 1997, and Sve Najbolje (All The Best) in 1999.
