Goran Karan

Goran Karan was born on the 2nd April, 1964....One of the best Croatian tenor singer of today...In eighties he begins to occupy himself with music.He sang with bands:"Epicentar", "Zippo", "Big Blue". In 1995. he got prestigious award rock-hit of the year with song:"Priznaj mi". Same year he got the main role in the musical:"Sarajevski krug". The album:"Sarajevski krug"/Big blue's first album/has been recorded in English and Croatian language with many concerts in Austria,Germany,Italy,France,USA.

At the beginning of 1997. he begins his solo-career, and in 1998. he won the "Zadar-fest" musical festival with the song "Kazna mi je sto te ljubim". At the end of that year, he stars as the main male role in the musical: "Rock It" staged at "Ronacher", theatre in Vienna, in Viennese production which is compiled from the eight most popular musicals, from late sixties onward: "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Grease", "Hair", "Tommy", etc.

Goran Karan releises his first solo-album in 1999. "Kao da te ne volim". It was the best-seller in Croatia and has reached 'platinum' number of sold copies. Same year he won the most prestigious Croatian music festival "Melodije hrvatskog Jadrana" with the song made by Zdenko Runjic titled "Prozor kraj djardina". In the poll done by Croatian daily newspaper "Slobodna Dalmacija", as well as in the polls of many other Croatian magazines and radio-stations, he has been chosen for the "Singer of the year". Song "Lipa si, lipa" has won at the "Hit ljeta" festival in Pula.

Goran Karan had done until now many important concerts. He is very successful as solo performer, and because of the great interest of public, in the February and March 2000 he has done four big solo-concerts in the Concert Hall "Vatroslav Lisinski". TV recording of the concert at the Split Peristil (summer 1999) has been nominated for the world TV festival "Golden Rose of Montreaux". In June 2000 Goran Karan has done succesfull tour on the USA West Coast. The end of the tour "Kao da te ne volim" he has marked with the spectacular concert at the Josip ban Jelacic Square in Zagreb, that was recorded by the Croatian National TV.

At "Dora 2000" with the song "Kad zaspu andjeli"("Stay with me") Goran Karan wins the first place, and therefore represents Croatia at the Eurovision contest in Stockhlom. He won prestigious discography award "Porin 2000" three times, for the "Best pop music album", "For best male vocal performance" and for the "Best vocal cooperation" (duet with Mr. Oliver Dragojevic).

Same year he performed at "Zagrebfest", and had tourneys in Croatia, Slovenia, Swiss, Germany, France and Slovakia.

At the end of 2001 Karan visited Turkey where he had several appearances within the promo-tour. Appearances got extremely well media attention, with interviews for 10 TV houses, as well as the interview for the Cosmopolitan magazine.

Year 2003 had begun with the Canadian tour, after which came Australian and New Zealand tours, and than the preparation for the main role in Croatian musical "Grgur" by Zdenko Runjic.

Year 2005 is extremely successful. Goran Karan won two prestigious musical festivals with the song "Ruzo moja" - in Split and at "Suncane skale" in Herceg Novi. At Kninfest he won 5 awards with his song "Lipo misto".

In the mean-time, he published new, fifth album "Od srca do usana", and he performs at the concerts all over Croatia, Slovenia, Bosinia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Austria, Swiss...etc...

He's preparing a new album:"Dica"/"Children", which will be released in the autumn of 2007. He participated on Hrvatski Radijski Festival in Hvar this year in june with a song:"Vitre moj"/"My wind", and won by listeners of Radio M(Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Radio Skala(Monte Negro)... At the end of 2006th, he recorded a duet song:"Trag od jubavi"/"Un' segno dell'amore"/"Sign of love", with a famous Italian tenor singer Alessandro Safina...They'll present this song in the autumn,this year in Zagreb on the Big Gala International Concert...

Goran has started one great friendship and collaboration with TOP Pinkovac/G?ttenbach from Austrian Croats and they also recorded nice song:"Daleko je more"/"Far away is sea"...They'll perform it on Zagrebfest 2007. in November... Next year he plans the tour in Australia and New Zealand, USA etc...

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