Kornelije Kovac

Kornell Kovach (Kornelije Kovac) was born in Nis, Yugoslavia. He comes from a prominent artistic family - his grandfather was a conductor, his father a music professor and a violinist, his mother a singer in the opera choir. Kornell Kovach received his early music education at his hometown's Subotica College Of Music, after which he entered The Academy Of Music Art in Sarajevo. He graduated from the Theory And Piano Department. Along with his classical music education, he was devoting a great deal of his time to the pop and rock music. His career as a professional musician started in 1961. Profoundly educated, he was able to exercise successfully in various fields of activities: as composer, pianist, keyboard player, producer and arranger. In 1961 he formed his first band, BKB, which became a prominent jazz trio at the time. In 1963 they entered The Yu Jazz Festival, that took place in Bled (Slovenia). After conducting the various orchestras in Bosnia, he finally joined Sarajevo's most popular pop band Indexi. With them he had a 2-months long tour in Russia. In 1968 he moved to the Yugoslav capital, Belgrade, where he founded one of the most significant Yugoslav pop-rock bands ever, Korny Group. As a composer and a musician, he won many music contests that took place in former Yugoslavia. With Korny Group he entered some music festivals in Europe. Kornell Kovach has been writing music for theater, movies and television. Like the composer of pop and rock music he has been greatly successful. His songs were released on numerous LP-s in Yugoslavia, Spain, France, USA, Holland, Sweden, Finland, Norway etc. Many of them were Golden or Platinum Records. Since 1979 Kornell Kovach has participated in many projects in Spain, as a producer, composer or arranger. He collaborated with various TV networks in Spain, such as: *TELE 5 - Music production of TELE 5 star singer THALIA /Mexico/ *ANTENA 3- Music director of the popular TV show "De Tu A Tu". Also, Kornell Kovach spent two years as the keyboard player of the popular Spanish "Caco Senante salsa-band".