Tomi Sovilj
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| Origin | Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia |
| Genres | Rock and roll, beat music |
| Years active | 1964 – 1970 |
| Labels | Diskos, Croatia Records |
| Associated acts | Bele Zvezde, Korni Grupa, Oliver, Opus, Siluete, Zlatni Dečaci |
| Past members | Tomi Sovilj Slobodan Saničanin Branislav Rakočević Milorad Tomić Ðino Maljoković Borislav Ðurković Boba Voratović Hamadija Vladović Dušan Prelević |
Tomi Sovilj i Njegove Siluete (Serbian Cyrillic: Томи Совиљ и Његове Силуете; trans. Tommy Sovilj and His Silhouettes) were a Yugoslav beat group from Belgrade, notable for being one of the pioneers of the Yugoslav rock scene.
Vocalist Tomislav "Tomi" Sovilj, born in Belgrade in 1941, started his career in 1963 at the dance parties held by Zlatni Dečaci (The Golden Boys). On Autumn of the same year, he had become the member of Siluete (The Silhouettes), but on mid-1964 he left the band, forming a band also called Siluete. For a while, there were two groups working under the same name, but the case was settled after a court verdict after which Sovilj lost the right to use the name. However, he did manage to keep the name somewhat similar by renaming it to Tomi Sovilj i Njegove Siluete.
At the time, the band beside him featured the former Bele Zvezde members Slobodan Saničanin (guitar), Branislav Rakočević (bass), Milorad Tomić (guitar) and Ðino Maljoković (drums). Later on, the band members were also Borislav Ðurković (rhythm guitar), Boba Voratović (bass) and Hamadija Vladović (drums). Owing to their attractive performances, they had become one of the most popular live acts in Belgrade, which provided them with often live performances at the Belgrade Mažestik hotel tea parties and at the cafe bar Terazije.
In 1966, the band released their debut EP Vule bule through Diskos, featuring the songs "Vule bule", a cover version of the Sam The Sham and The Pharaos song "Wooly Bully", "Hej, o Slupi", a cover of The McCoys song "Hang On Sloopy", "Džini Džini", a cover Little Richard's "Jenny, Jenny", all three having lyrics rewritten in Serbian language, and a cover of the starogradska muzika standard "Za jedan časak radosti" ("For a Moment of Joy"), written by Darko Kraljić. The release had been sold in more than fifty thousand copies, thus becoming a silver record.
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