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He attended high school in Bačka Palanka and ended up moving to Belgrade two years later. | He attended high school in Bačka Palanka and ended up moving to Belgrade two years later. | ||
After graduating from high school | After graduating from high school he started working at the IMT tractor factory in Belgrade, afterwards briefly at the then "Tito" shipyard before finishing his mandatory military service in Livno. After which he started working at the Belgrade airport but soon turned to singing as his profession when a Surčin friend held a celebration, where Baja was invited and got handed the microphone to sing. He recieved a tip which would be five times as big as his airport salary, saying to himself "Baja, you won't wake up early anymore". | ||
== Career == | == Career == | ||
1989 would | Baja would soon perform in cities like Sarajevo and its restaurant "Holidej" in Čengić vila, which was owned by [[Lepi Mića]]'s cousin, sharing the stage with artists like [[Ljubiša Vasiljević]]. | ||
1989 would be the year he contributed to writing the [[Tromeđa]] album "[[Izvorne pjesme Dalmacije, Like i Krajine]]", including the legendary song "[[Nema raja bez rodnoga kraja]]". Later in the year Baja wanted to compete in the music competition "Prvi glas Livna", but was denied when the jury found out that the song "Nema raja" was already a on an album and that Baja was a professional musician. Nontheless he was allowed to perform it together with his song "Nemoj me lagati mila", just not enter the competition. | |||
With the beginning of the breakup of Yugoslavia Baja's songs turned patriotic. He managed to gather just enough money to record his first album, just to lose it on the way to the people who recorded the songs. Now in debt and in search of a record label to take him, he eventually found [[Jugodisk]] after being rejected by [[PGP RTS]]. Finally published in early 1992, "[[Ne dam Krajine]]" would become a huge hit and catapult Baja to fame. | |||
