Nikola Pejaković
| Nikola Pejaković | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1966 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | Actor, television director, screenwriter, musician |
| Nikola Pejaković | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Kolja |
| Born | 1966 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Origin | Belgrade, Serbia |
| Genres | Blues rock, acoustic rock, folk rock, funk, soul, comedy rock, rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter |
| Instruments | vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica |
| Years active | since the mid-1980s |
| Labels | System Records |
| Associated acts | Kolja i Smak Bijelog Dugmeta |
| Website | kolja.rs |
Nikola Pejaković (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Пејаковић; born 1966 in Banja Luka) is a Serbian actor and musician. After finishing Secondary Art School he entered the Art Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, department of theater directing. Beside his acting career Pejaković is also a musician, playing the guitar, piano and harmonica. Since he was born without a little finger on his right hand, he is a four fingered guitarist, registered at the American Coalition for Disabled Musicians. He composed the ultimate kafana hit "Haljinica boje lila" ("Lilac-colored dress").
Pejaković wrote scenarios and appeared as actor in the movies Lepa sela lepo gore (Pretty village, pretty flame) and Rat uživo (War live). He directed the Složna braća television series and acted in the movies Mi nismo anđeli (We are not angels), directed by Srđan Dragojević, and Rock and roll uzvraća udarac (We Are Not Angels 3: Rock and roll strikes back), directed by Petar Pašić. He is a theatre director and his plays usually feature the mise-en-scene, costumes and soundtrack entirely created by him.
The songs Pejaković had composed during the mid-1980s were released on his debut album Mama, nemoj plakati (Mother do not cry), released by System Records in 2001. Influenced by diverse range genres and crossing them with witty and a bit vulgar lyrics, Pejaković described his musical style as "porn soul". The songs were recorded with a studio backing band, which he named Smak Bijelog Dugmeta (a witty remark on the two popular 1970s Yugoslav bands, Smak and Bijelo Dugme), composed of Saša Lokner (keyboards), Vojislav Aralica (album producer, guitar, bass, keyboards) and Dejan Momčilović (drums). For the album cover, Pejaković chose Dragan Papić's work called "Žalim slučaj" ("So sorry"). The album was recorded between 25 October 1998 and 13 January 1999 at the Goran Kostić Go-Go studio in Belgrade. During the same year, he also appeared as the writer of the Oleg Novković’s Normalni ljudi (Normal people) movie soundtrack, and in 2005 he wrote the Wedding short movie soundtrack, both of which never officially released on a soundtrack album.
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