Đuričić and the Drummers

The most famous rock and pop drummer from the former, great Yugoslavia – certainly is Dragoljub Đuričić. This Cetinje native, by the beginning of the 70s begins playing with different rock bands in Herceg Novi. He arrives to Belgrade in 1975, and straight away joins the band Ribelli, with whom he performs all across Yugoslavia, opening for the biggest names, as are: Zlatko Pejaković, Dušan Prelević, Arsen Dedić, Gabi Novak, Kemal Monteno, Bisera Veletanlić…

He becomes the drummer for the group Mama CoCo in 1977. At that time the band was led by the great Dado Topić. Next year, Mama CoCo opened for Zdravko Čolić on, until then, the biggest Yugoslav concert tour. But even that wasn’t enough for Đuričić, so by the end of the 70s he found himself in the renowned Belgrade YU grupa, and from 1981 he was a member of the great Macedonian ensemble Leb i sol. Into the band from Niš Kerber he entered during the mid-eighties, later only to return back to Vlatko Stefanovski’s crew.

Everyone wanted a piece of Đuričić – the grand master of rhythm! – from the big, commercial names, all the way to the alternative musicians. Today when he recounts, it turns out that he recorded seventy albums, some as a studio musicians, others as part of the band which released them. During his career, Đuričić played on more than six thousand concerts, on every continent… except the Antarctic. From 1997 he renews his collaboration with Čolić, at the head of his backing band, all the while managing to do some of his own work as part of the project The Drums Company.

Immense is the list of famous musicians who worked with Đuričić. Beside the mentioned, those are: Kornelije Kovač, Davorin Popović, Laza Ristovski, Đorđe Balašević, Stjepko Gut… On this year’s Street Musicians Festival, Dragoljub Đuričić arrives with his squad of young drummers, on a mission to gloriously open the Festival turning it into a great-spirited rhythm carnival which will live on in memory long after the dust has settled!