Vukašin Brajić
Vukašin Brajić, Vuki or Wookee, (born 9 February 1984 in Sanski Most, Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian and Bosnian Pop-/Rockmusiker, which was known by the talent show Operacija Trijumf.
He represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Euro Vision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo with the song Thunder and Lightning.
- 5.1 Singles with the band " OT"
- 5.2 singles as a solo artist
Childhood and musical beginnings
Vukašin was born as the eldest child of Simeun and Dušanka Brajić. He has two younger siblings, Nenad and Nevena. During the Bosnian War, his family fled to Serbia. They settled there first decide in Mali Požarevac in Sopot, where she lived for a year. After the family moved to Brajić Čačak, where she still lives today.
In Čačak Brajić also graduated from the primary school and after high school. In the third year he also attended the music school. During school, he sang in the choir, learned in the dance school "Luna" dance and was a member of the theater club of his school.
At 19, he moved from Čačak to Negotin, attended an academy for aspiring teachers and played within the Metal band Affect. The success of the band was made , however, but he broke his studies in 2007 and moved to Belgrade, to further his musical career. There he settled with his band produce a promotional single, but even so managed to no success, so they split at the end of 2007. Vukašin Brajić however tried with Marko Marić duo Lucky Luke.
Operacija Trijumf
Vukašins participation in Operacija Trijumf, organized by the Serbian TV station B92 edition of Fame Academy with participants from the countries of the Western Balkans ( Albania without ), so that his former roommate told him that the talent show was in his city began. He took over from his remaining money singing lessons. The show started on 29 September 2008. He came to the finals and reached there by about 330,000 votes in second place behind winner Adnan Babajić. Brajić represented in the Operacija Trijumf the Republika Srpska.
During the broadcast Vukašin stood out above all by its performance benefits, which earned him much praise from the judges. Since the event was broadcast in all former Yugoslav states, it was also important that the audience could identify from all participating countries. Some even referred to him as "a man of all the states of the former Yugoslavia reunited ".
Appearances at Operacija Trijumf
Himna OT ( a cappella version)
Joint appearance with all participants
Himna OT (rock version)
Duet with Đorđe Gogov
Joint appearance with all participants
Help! / A Hard Day 's Night
Joint appearance with all male participants
The Beatles
Balkans
We Will Rock You, We Are the Champions
Duet with Nikola Sarić
With A. Bebić, p Bakić, N. Sarić and D. Pavlović
Queen
Svet Tuge
Wed plešemo / Maljčiki
Duet with Sonja Bakić
With Igor Cukrov and Ana Bebić
Negative
Prljavo Kazalište / Idoli
With or Without You
Duet with Igor Cukrov
U2
Angels
Single appearance
Easy
More Than Words
Highway to Hell
Single appearance
Single appearance
Single appearance
Extreme
AC / DC
Success with OT Bend
The second place in the talent show gave the singer a place in the retort band OT Bend, which also includes his former opponents in Operacija Trijumf, Nikola Paunovic, Nikola Sarić and Đorđe Gogov. The band released an album and gave several concerts. A special highlight presented a performance on February 23, 2009, a concert by the British folk - musician James Blunt opened before 2,000 fans in Belgrade in OT Bend.
OT Bend competed in 2009 with the rock song Blagoslov za kraj (English about: blessing at the end) when Serbian finals for the Euro Vision Song Contest, called Beovizija. With the singer Katarina " Kaja " Ostojic as support the quartet went to, but narrowly failed: Although most votes received four at televoting, but were so negatively evaluated by the jury that they landed only in second place.
After that, the band has received various awards and toured Europe. Among other things, they played at the Universiade 2009 in Belgrade in front of around 10,000 people.
Solo performance at the Euro Vision Song Contest 2010
On 11 January 2010 it was announced that Vukašin Brajić Bosnia - Herzegovina is represented at the Euro Vision Song Contest 2010 (ESC ) in Oslo with the song Thunder and Lightning by Edin - Dino Šaran. A preliminary decision, as is common in many countries, there was not in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Brajić was chosen by a panel of experts.
The choice Brajićs the representative of Bosnia called in some parts of the population out amazement. Although Brajić is Bosnian Serb, but lives from childhood in Serbia, where his music career is also well founded. He speaks and sings in the ekavischem dialect, which is characteristic of Serbia. However, the ESC title he sang as a single title in ijekavischem dialect. Previously, it was his opponent Adnan Babajić who emerged as the winner in the Operacija Trijumf and Bosniak is traded as a potential representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Babajić expressed in this regard multiply negatively in the ex-Yugoslav press to select Brajićs.
Also, some Bosniak media put in to order to discredit Brajić. Thus urged the press to the Bosniak diaspora to sabotage Vukašin the televoting. Often monniert was that his family had left Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war years and fled to Serbia, he speaks Serbian dialect and of the Bosnian population is not as " Bosnians ", but as " Serb " is perceived. Since Brajić however, both the Bosnian and Serbian citizenship has he fulfilled for both states, the admission criteria. For the EBU the origin of the performers and composers is irrelevant. The participants transmitters but it is optional, the process by which the participants will be selected. In general, some countries pay attention to the origin of the composer, as the Euro Vision Song Contest is a composer contest.
According to Marco Lambrecht from the NDR of the title has a " rugged charm ". On 25 May 2010 Brajić occurred in Oslo on the first ESC semi-final and reached the final, which was held on May 29. There, he finished with 51 points to 17th place. The full score of 12 points, he was only expected from Serbia.
Discography
Singles with the band " OT"
- 2009: Blagoslov za kraj
- 2009: se jos malo Strpi
- 2009: Zaboravi feat. Karolina Gočeva
Singles as a solo artist
- 2010: Thunder and Lightning ( Munia i grom )