Miško Plavi

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Milivoje Petrović, known to audiences under his stag name Miško Plavi, arrived to the music scene at the beginning of the 80s. In VIA Talas he played guitar, while he played bass for the group D’Boys. Afterwards he was on guitar, bas and keyboards in Piloti. In the band Piloti he played for eleven years, while for a short period of time he even played bas for Ekatarina Velika.

His solo career begins 15 years ago. At that moment he goes to Japan for the first time, but as an accordion player, and begins to compose music for films. Miško’s notes decorate the films of the famous Jean-Marc Barr, while he became known to wider audiences through work on the film by Srđan Koljević Sivi kamion crvene boje (The Red Colored Grey Truck). Miško was first accepted as an accordion player by the audience in Japan…

– The program Music Around The World was created on the streets of Osaka and Tokyo, in 2000 and 2001. Then, for the first time I went to Japan, with the wish to see how it is to play in the street. Until then I was only used to playing with bands and on stadiums and squares, in front of ten, fifty and hundreds of thousands of people, but never in the street. In 2000 Osaka was one of the candidates for the Olympic Games, and because of that great many street musicians from all across the world dropped anchor in its port. The city was elated, and a cosmopolitan atmosphere reigned over the city – explains Miško.

– While still in Belgrade I made a plan: to show the Japanese what is an accordion! Three months I prepared a 45 minute program for the street, and as a result experienced incredible success. I earned a lot of money, although at first it was not my primary goal – reminisces Miško. – I met people who connected me to the main men of Japan’s music business. Later I played in clubs, signed contracts with a label, who remain my exclusive house even today. They made it possible for me to perform on more than 200 concerts across Japan and in the most exclusive music halls in the country.

On this year’s Street Musicians Festival, Miško Plavi will perform part of the program Music Around The World. “You will hear my original music through which I weave musical segments from other authors from the fields of rock, jazz, classical and ethno music”, explains the accordion player who has had numerous concerts and studio collaborations, but also an excellently accepted
album – the Japanese compilation Super Best Of Miško Plavi, while at home studio edition Istok ljubi Zapad (East Kisses West), and a concert album Live In Japan (released as part of the publishing of Miško’s travelogue – Planet Japan).

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