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Biography: Azra Đorđević Rock

1) Azra was a popular rock band from Zagreb, Croatia formed in 1977 that was most active in the 1980s. They gained commercial success with their self-titled debut album in 1980 and helped popularize rock music in Yugoslavia. The band disbanded in 1990 after releasing several successful albums. 2) Azra is also the name of a Turco-German rapper. 3) Azra is an alias of Azra Đorđević, an Italian disco artist.

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Biography: Azra Đorđević Rock

1) Azra was a popular rock band from Zagreb, Croatia formed in 1977 that was most active in the 1980s. They gained commercial success with their self-titled debut album in 1980 and helped popularize rock music in Yugoslavia. The band disbanded in 1990 after releasing several successful albums. 2) Azra is also the name of a Turco-German rapper. 3) Azra is an alias of Azra Đorđević, an Italian disco artist.

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Biography

Azra is the name of more than one artist:


1) Zagreb rock band
2) Turco-German rapper
3) italo-disco, alias of Azra Đorđević

1) Azra was a rock band from Zagreb, Croatia (then Yugoslavia) that was popular in the
1980s. Azra was formed in 1977 by its frontman Branimir "Johnny" Štulić. He became
an urban legend even before Azra recorded the first album. He would show up with his
guitar in various locations around the city and sing to everyone, or nobody, depending
on the occasion. The other two members were Mišo Hrnjak (bass) and Boris Leiner
(drums). They named the band after the verse "Ja se zovem El Muhamed/Iz plemena
starih Azra/Što za ljubav glavu gube/I umiru kada ljube!" (trans. "My name is El
Muhamed/From the tribe of the old Azra/That lose their lives for love/And die when they
kiss!") from a sevdalinka "Kraj tanahna šadrvana", which is a translation of Heinrich
Heine's song Der Asra.

They released their first single in 1979 with the songs "Balkan" and "A šta da radim".
The first, self-titled, album, published in 1980, achieved commercial success and
popularized Azra in Yugoslavia. Azra recorded their last studio album "Između krajnosti"
in 1987. In 1988 the band recorded a 4LP live album under the name "Zadovoljština"
(Satisfaction). They disbanded in 1990.
Štulić recorded another three albums in Houten, Netherlands, where he currently
resides. He lives a secluded life and is often the target of reporters seeking an interview
(most often unsuccesfully).

A 2003 rock documentary, Sretno dijete (Happy Child, the title of a Prljavo Kazalište
song) depicts Azra as the central figure of the rock scene in Yugoslavia during the
1980s, along with the influential Bijelo dugme.

Even until today, Azra has remained very popular among youth in the countries of
former Yugoslavia, unlike many other new wave bands which are now considered, more
or less, historical examples.

Discography:
- Singles

- Balkan (The Balkans), A šta da radim (What am I supposed to do) - (Jugoton 1979)
- Lijepe žene prolaze kroz grad (Pretty women passing through the town), Poziv na ples
(The Invitation to dance), Suzy F.- (Jugoton, 1980)
- Đoni, budi dobar (Johnny B. Good), Teško vrijeme (The Difficult Times) - (Jugoton
1982)
- E, pa što (So what), Sloboda (The Freedom), Gluperde lutaju daleko (Jerks wander
far) - (Jugoton 1982)
- Nemir i strast (Restlessness and passion), Doviđenja na Vlaškom drumu (Farewell on
the Vlashka road) - (Jugoton 1983)

- Albums

- Azra - (Jugoton, 1980)


- Sunčana strana ulice (The Sunny side of the street) - (Double - Jugoton, 1981)
- Ravno do dna (Straight to the bottom) - (Double Live - Jugoton, 1982)
- Filigranski pločnici (The Filigree Sidewalks) - (Double - Jugoton, 1982)
- Kad fazani lete (When pheasants fly) - (Jugoton, 1983)
- Krivo srastanje (The Mistaken Sublimation) - (Jugoton, 1984)
- It Ain't Like in the Movies At All - (Triple - Diskoton, 1986)
- Između krajnosti (In Between Extremes) - (Jugoton, 1987)
- Zadovoljština ('Satisfaction') - (Quadruple Live, 1988)

- Other

- Zadovoljština (Zagreb, Live Concert, 1988)


- Das Ist Johnny (Sarajevo, Live Film, 1991)

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