Ibrica Jusić

He performed acoustical music and chansons all over Dubrovnik, before officially starting his professional career in 1965 in Zagreb, after being invited by composer Pero Gotovac.

He lived in Paris for three years and performed in cabarets, returning to Dubrovnik only during the summers, during which he held outdoors evening concerts on the steps of the Dominican Monastery.

In next years he sang in almost all worldwide popular places, such as the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall in New York City, the China Theatre in Stockholm.

He composed music for works of writers and poets Luko Paljetak, Dobriša Cesarić, Aleksa Šantić, Mika Antić, William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht and Drago Britvić, among others.

He got one more invitation from the same show on Christmas Eve, but this time, the guests also were stars like Charles Aznavour and the Gold Gate Quartet.

In 1997, he entered to the newly founded Dancing Bear record label and published a compact disc, Dan prije (The Day Before.)

It contained 13 original Bosnian sevdalinka songs recorded in the studio Liburnia Jazz Mozart, with the sounds of the accordion virtuoso Omar Pobrica and violin maestro Sasha Olenjuk.

Since his music has a mixture of Italian, French, Croatian and Bosnian influences, 2009 marked a number of concerts titled Od Šekspira do sevdaha (From Shakespeare to Sevdah.)