Born in Sarajevo, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia as the only child of a Croat father and a Ukrainian mother.
After completing his secondary schooling, he studied Physics at the University of Sarajevo's Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
While gigging with Indexi over summer 1973, he struck up a friendship with Goran Bregović who at the time had a band called Jutro.
The two hit it off immediately, and Pravdić decided to join Jutro, which would soon be transformed into the highly influential Bijelo Dugme as of 1 January 1974.
Pravdić played on Bijelo Dugme's first two albums Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme and Šta bi dao da si na mom mjestu before commencing his compulsory military service in fall 1976, when he got replaced by Laza Ristovski.