Sejo Sexon

Sejo Sexon was born in 1961 in Sarajevo and registered as Davor Sučić. He finished primary and secondary school in Sarajevo and graduated from the Faculty of Medicine. He has been playing the guitar since he was 12, and in 1978 he founded the Pseudo Blues Band with singer Nele Karajlić. With the addition of drummer Zenit Đozić in 1980, the group got the name Pseudo Blues Band Zabranjeno Pušenje. A little later, with Elvis J. Kurtović and Seid Karajlić, Sexon founded the group E. J. Kurtovich & His Meteors. Until 1982, Sejo was active in both bands, and early in 1982, he fully devoted himself to Zabranjeno pušenje. Since then, he has been composing music for television, film, theatre, graduated in history, wrote columns for Glas Slavonije, engaged in humanitarian work, and after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, renewed the work of Zabranjeno pušenje, which became one of the longest-running Yugoslav and post-Yugoslavian bands. Sexon is the winner of numerous honours and awards for his musical and production work, while, together with Goran Bregović and Miroslav Ćiro Mandić, he received the Golden Rose in Monterey for the best advertising video in 1990. He lives between Zagreb, Sarajevo and the stage.