Oliver Mandić

Oliver Mandić (Оливер Мандић, born July 13, 1953 in Titovo Užice, Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian pop, disco funk, new wave musician, composer, and producer - very prominent and popular throughout the 1980s. Musically involved from a young age, he first started playing the accordion before taking up the piano. In his early youth, Mandić's family moved to the capital Belgrade where he pursued a career of a pianist after getting accepted at highly reputable Kornelije Stanković musical high school. However, despite a lot of promise, he left school in 1969 to try to branch out into pop music.