Zorán Sztevanovity

Zorán Sztevanovity (Serbian Zoran Stevanović, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 4 March 1942) is a Hungarian musician (guitarist), singer and composer of a Serbian origin. He has two children, Zoltán and Sandra.

Life and career

He got to Hungary in 1948 with his parents who were on a diplomatic mission, after two years in Prague. In 1960, with his brother Dušan and their friends he founded an amateur band called Zenith which changed its name to Metró in 1961, when they began to play in the Metró Klub, the club of the underground building company.

Zorán often takes part of talent shows and pop festivals in the sixties with his band or in solo and wins in 1963 with a Gerschwin song. Enthused by success, he stops his studies at Budapest University of Technology (he read to be an electronic engineer) and becomes a professional musician. At this time Metró is one of the three most popular beat bands in Hungary with Illés and Omega, the so-called 'beat-trinity'. Metró publishes two albums and about 40 singles.

After the Metró's breaking up in 1972, Zorán began a solo carrier. He played bass in the band Taurus XT and spent some years abroad. He's been working with Gábor Presser, pianist-composer of the Locomotív GT since 1976. His first solo album came out in 1977 and became one of the most successful albums published in Hungary ever. It contained his best-known song "Apám hitte". This LP was soon followed by two more: these three albums are considered to form a single unit in his work and are mentioned as a 'trilogy'.

After his fourth album he received the Franz Liszt Prize given by the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 1982. In the late eighties and early nineties he presents a program in Radio Calypso.He was the first in Hungary who made an unplugged concert in 1993 in the Budapest Sports Hall.

Emotional profusion, poetic composition and often a dry sense of humour feature his songs, which are almost all composed by Gábor Presser and written by Dusán. You can also find some treatments of songs by Leonard Cohen, Mark Knopfler, Chris Rea, Sting and others among his works.

He has recently got married to actress Barbara Hegyi.

Albums

With Metró

* 1969 Metró
* 1970 Egy este a Metró Klubban

As a soloist

* 1977 Zorán
* 1978 Zorán II
* 1979 Zorán III
* 1982 Tizenegy dal
* 1985 Édes évek (remakes of Metró-songs)
* 1987 Szép holnap
* 1991 Az élet dolgai
* 1994 Kell ott fenn egy ország (maxi single)
* 1995 Majd egyszer
* 1997 1997
* 1998 Hozzám tartozol (bestof)
* 1999 Az ablak mellett
* 2001 Így alakult
* 2004 A körben (maxi single)

Prizes

* 1967 Golden Guitar
* 1977 LP of the year
* 1977 Singer of the year
* 1978 Singer of the year
* 1982 Franz Liszt Prize
* 1987 Excellent performer of the year
* 1992 Singer of the year
* 1994 Golden Giraffe Prize
* 1994 Cross of Honour of the Order of Hungarian Republic
* 1994 Golden Europe Prize
* 1994 Prize for a life's work given by ARD Television
* 1998 Golden Giraffe Prize
* 1998 Lyra Prize, Hungarian Performing Arts Foundation

External links

* [http://zoran.euroweb.hu Official Homepage]