Music like Plavi Orkestar

Plavi orkestar (lit. 'Blue Orchestra') is a Bosnian and former Yugoslavian pop rock band from Sarajevo. The band was formed in 1983 by Saša Lošić, who is the lead singer and songwriter of the group. The band has remained popular with seven albums and more than 1500 concerts worldwide.

In 1981, sixteen-year-old Saša Lošić, a gymnasium student from Sarajevo, started a band called Ševin Orkestar with Srđan Krošnjar on guitar, Gordan Džamonja on bass, and Admir "Ćera II" Ćeramida on drums. The following year, the four teenagers changed their name to Plavi Orkestar due to another group called Ševe being active in the city at the time.

Soon after, Lošić switched schools; moving from the Third Sarajevo Gymnasium to First Sarajevo Gymnasium where he met guitarist Mladen "Pava" Pavičić who had already experienced a certain measure of musical prominence having played in a band called Rock Apoteka. Furthermore, Pavičić had appeared at the 1981 Omladinski festival in Subotica with Super 98 (Rock Apoteka's next incarnation), before switching to pop band Mali Princ, and finally ending up in Pauk where he recorded an album, Mumije lažu, released in 1982. Since Pauk was based out of Zavidovići, for teenage Pavičić that meant traveling every weekend for band rehearsals, which his parents weren't too keen on and soon persuaded him to quit the group. He then flirted with and filled in with a variety of bands.