Pro Arte is tagged as: 70s, croatian, ex-yu, rock, pop
70s pop band from Sarajevo founded by Đorđe Novković, (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђорђе Новковић, born in Sarajevo[1] September 2, 1943 - May 6, 2007) was a songwriter who was known for his work in SFR Yugoslavia and Croatia. He is also known as the father of popular singer Boris Novković.|Novković was born to a Croatian/Serbian mixed couple, his father Vukašin was Serb and a violinist[2], so his musical talent was discovered very early, and he joined the musical school in Sarajevo at the age of 6. After graduating conducting from Musical Academy in Sarajevo, he founded a band Pro Arte during the fall of 1967.|In 1968, his wife Ozana, a music professor by profession, gave birth to their son Boris, and the family moved to Zagreb, Croatia. Boris would later become a rock singer-songwriter, but he split abruptly with his father at the age of 19.|His first hit came in 1969 with the song “Više se neće vratiti” performed by Mišo Kovač and sold in half a million copies.|In 1973, Pro Arte merged with another Sarajevo pop group Indexi, but the experiment lasted only several months. Pro Arte existed in continuity until 1980, as well as off-and-on throughout the 1980s. In 1989 Novković moved to live in Rovinj, Croatia.|After Pro Arte, Đorđe Novković switched to...
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