Josip Boček

Josip Boček is a guitarist, songwriter, producer, studio musician and arranger, born 1950 in Osijek, Croatia. He started his music career as a guitarist in various bands from his hometown, such as Lavine, "Eliksiri", and Dinamiti. With his schoolmate Dado Topić he formed a band "Eliksiri" in 1964, while still in elementary school and they were playing covers from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Spencer Davis Group etc. "Eliksiri" disbanded in 1967, so Josip Boček and Dado Topić joined Dinamiti. Dinamiti concentrated more on writing their own material, but at the same time they were very active playing live gigs, so they soon earned the reputation of a concert attraction and they played numerous tours throughout the whole ex-Yugoslavia. In 1969 Dado Topić accepted the invitation from Kornelije Kovač and joined Korni Grupa, which eventually led to Dinamiti breaking-up. The next year Josip Boček also joined Korni Grupa, where he stayed until their disbanding in 1974. In 1975 he was a member of a project named Kongres Rock Majstora, that also included guitarists Goran Bregović (Bijelo Dugme), Vedran Božić (Time) and Miodrag Bata Kostić (Yu Grupa). From that point on, he concentrated more on studio work, as a producer, songwriter and arranger, having collaborated with numerous artist, such as Leb i Sol, Generacija 5, Dado Topić, Đorđe Balašević, Miša Blam, Biljana Krstić, Zlatko Pejaković, Zdravko Čolić, Bisera Veletanlić, Južni Vetar and many more. He also composed two soundtracks - for the Zoran Amar movie "Indijsko ogledalo" and for the movie "Zvezde ljubavi" by Milan Spasić.. In 2008 he was one of the founding members of a project called Rok Misija. Josip Boček lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia.