Tomo Miličević

Tomo Miličević
Miličević performing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in February 2010
Born	Tomislav Miličević (1979-09-03) September 3, 1979 (age 37) Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
Residence	Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Musician songwriter record producer
Spouse(s)	Vicki Bosanko (m. 2011)
Family	Ivana Miličević (sister)
Musical career
Genres	Alternative rock
Instruments	Guitars bass guitar violin keyboards percussion
Labels	Universal Virgin EMI Immortal
Associated acts	Thirty Seconds to Mars Morphic Ivy Levan Dommin

Tomislav "Tomo" Miličević (Croatian pronunciation: [tǒːmo milǐːt͡ʃevit͡ɕ]; born September 3, 1979) is an American musician and record producer best known as the lead guitarist of rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars. Born in Sarajevo but raised in the United States, Miličević moved to Troy, Michigan in the early 1980s, where he became active in the local heavy metal scene and played in a number of bands, co-founding Morphic. In 2003, he joined Thirty Seconds to Mars, with whom he achieved worldwide recognition in the mid-2000s after recording the band's second album A Beautiful Lie (2005). Its full-length follow-ups, This Is War (2009) and Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013), received further critical and commercial success.

Miličević has also worked as a collaborator and music producer. Throughout the 2010s, he was featured on a recording with Dommin and collaborated with Ivy Levan on a number of releases, including Introducing the Dame (2013) and No Good (2015). Miličević has experimented with various guitar effects and introduced influences from several genres of music into his own style.

Tomo Miličević was born on September 3, 1979 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then part of SFR Yugoslavia, to a Croatian family. He is the middle child of Tonka and Damir Miličević. He has an elder sister, Ivana, and a younger brother, Filip. His father worked in agricultural engineering and his mother was a doctor. His family first arrived in the United States in 1982, where Miličević's brother Filip was born. They travelled back and forth until they permanently emigrated to Troy, Michigan when Miličević enrolled in the third grade, to avoid the Bosnian War. He stated that he "would be in the army by 16, fighting in the front lines by age 17" if his family had not emigrated. After moving to the United States, both his parents worked in manufacturing industries in Troy and Detroit. A few years later, they started their own business.