Dražen Janković
Serbian musician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dražen Janković (Serbian Cyrillic: Дражен Јанковић; 1965 – 9 November 2018), also known by his nickname Drale, was a Serbian musician, composer, writer and actor. He was a band member of Sarajevo-based rock band Zabranjeno Pušenje under pseudonyms Seid Mali Karajlić (or Seid Little Karajlić), and Belgrade-based band The No Smoking Orchestra as Herr Dralle Draugentaller.[3][4] He was one of the prominent members of the New Primitivism movement in his hometown Sarajevo. His older brother is a Serbian musician and actor Nenad Janković.[5][6]
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Born | 1965 (1965)[1][2] |
Died | 9 November 2018(2018-11-09) (aged 52–53) Belgrade, Serbia |
Nationality | Serbian |
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Education | Sarajevo Second Gymnasium |
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Years active | 1980–2018 |
Relatives | Nenad Janković (brother) |
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Labels | Polis 1991 |
As an actor, he has appeared in television series Top lista nadrealista (1989–1991) and Složna braća (1996), as well as in a documentary film Super 8 Stories (2001), directed by the award-winning Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica.[7]
Janković was born in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia (nowadays Bosnia and Herzegovina) where he finished elementary school and the Second Sarajevo Gymnasium. His father Srđan was a linguist and a university professor of Oriental sciences at the University of Sarajevo's Faculty of Philosophy.