Biography
Pro Arte
Real name: Pro Arte
Effective period / Period of releases: 1970 - 2015
Members: Đorđe Novković, Slobodan M. Kovačević, Andrej Stefanović, Ratko Divjak, Vladimir Borovčanin, Mladen Drljača, Vladimir Savčić Čobi, Arno Udatny, Miroslav Šaranović, Josip Jurić (2), Benjamin Stanić, Zvonimir Richter, Hamdija Čustović, Slobodan Misaljević
Pro Arte are a pop rock band from Bosnia and Herzegovina.“Pro arte” was founded in Sarajevo in 1967 by the organ player, famous composer and songwriter Đorđe Novković. After the band changed several singers, the band became famous when Vladimir Savčić Čobi became the lead vocalist. Since 1968 the band became a regular festival-band throughout the former Yugoslav-regions and won numerous festival awards (“Zagreb 68”, etc.). The band was active till 1980, afterwards the band members went separated ways.