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Artist
Goran Karan
12+ albums
croatianpopEurovisionBalladbalkan
about
Goran Karan was born on April 2, 1964. In the beginning of the 80's, Goran started his career as a musician in various bands such as "Epicentar", "Deveti krug", "Zippo" and "Big Blue". In 1995, as a frontman of the band called "Big Blue", Goran received an award for the rock hit of the year for the song "Priznaj mi". Later in the same year, Goran was given the lead role in the musical "Sarajevski krug" (The Sarajevo circle). Album from the musical and the Big Blue's debut album were released both in Croatian and English. Many concerts held in Austria, Germany, Italy, France, along with three tours in the United States. In the beginning of 1997 Goran began his solo career. In 1998 Goran won "Zadar-fest" with the song "Kazna mi je što te ljubim". By the end of 1998, Goran was given the male leading role in the musical "Rock It" in the "Ronacher" theater in Vienna. It was a production composed of eight most popular musicals such as: "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Grease", "Hair", "Tommy", etc. In 1999 Goran's first solo album"Kao da te ne volim" was released. It was the result of collaboration with Zdenko Runjić, the famous composer from Split. The album was the bestselling album in Croatia for that year and it reached platinum recording sales certification. In the same year Goran wins the prestigious music festival in Croatia called "Melodije hrvatskog Jadrana". The song that won was called "Prozor kraj đardina" and it was composed by Zdenko Runjić. In the polls made by Croati
