KORNELL KOVACH (KORNELIJE KOVAC)

Biography

Bands/Discography:

  • BKB
  • Indexi
  • Korny Group
  • Not an ordinary life (1974)
  • Jenny Darren Band
  • Caco Senante salsa-band
    • Solo albums (under the name K2):
  • Why (1980, PGP RT)
    • Solo albums (under the name Butterflies):
  • Butterflies (1981)
    • Soundtracks:
  • Lude godine (1978)
  • Doslo doba da se ljubav proba (1980)
  • Sezona mira u parizu (1981)
  • Ljubi ljubi al' glavu ne gubi (1981)
  • Montenegro (1981)
  • Ziveti kao sav normalan svet (1982)
  • Stepenice za nebo (1982)
  • Halo taxi (1983)
  • Vreme leoparda (1985)
  • Cao inspektore (1985)
  • Devojka s lampom (1992)
  • Porodicno blago (1998 - TV series)
    • Albums as a producer:
  • xxx - Dado Topic? For instance... Ask Kornell!
    • Albums as a composer:
  • xxx - Zdravko Colic? For instance... Ask Kornell!
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    Kornell Kovach was born on January 1st of 1942, in Nis (Yugoslavia). He comes from a prominent artistic family - his grandfather was a conductor and a concert pianist, his father is a music professor and a violinist, his mother an opera singer.

    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 jazz 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 following music festivals in Europe:
     

    In 1979 Kornell Kovach moved to England where he collaborated in various projects , such as :

    Among the prominent British musicians with whom Kornell Kovach collaborated while in UK, were:

    Kornell Kovach has been writing music for theatre, movies and television. Like the composer of pop and rock music he has been greatly successful . His songs were released on numerous LPs 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.

    LPs released in Spain where Kornell plays and arranges:

    (Detalles del Ariel Rot album:
    Ariel Rot. 1º LP: "Debajo del puente". Con canciones de Sergio Makaroff. Con Javier de Juan (dr), Kornell Kovach (k), Mark Smith (b). Producer: Peter Mc Namee, Ariel Rot. Estudio: Snake Ranch, Sarm (London). Serdisco, 1984. Ariel Rot : v,g,arrangements - Javier de Juan : dr - Mark Smith : b - Kornell Kovach : k)

    He collaborated with various TV networks in Spain, such as :

    Also, Kornell Kovach spent two years as the keyboard player of the popular Spanish "Caco Senante salsa-band ".

    Apart from his activities in the other fields of popular music , Kornell Kovach has his greatest successes in the area of the film music. His
    soundtracks for the movies "WITHOUT" and " DREAMS, LIFE AND DEATH OF FILIP FILIPOVIC" have won him the highest acknowledgements in the movie industry in Yugoslavia-THE GOLDEN ARENA (1972, 1980), and his soundtrack for the movie "THOSE CRAZY YEARS" won THE GOLDEN SIREN in Egypt, 1982.

     
    SOLO ALBUMS

    1.LP BUTTERFLIES  1981 Inner City New York (USA)
    Al selections (12) composed by Nachum Heiman and Kornell Kovach
    Recorded at Atmosphere studios in Soho.
    Recording engineer Bob Painter

    2."WHY"  - K2  1980
    Issued in Yugoslavia by PGP RT Beograd
    Rod Argent keyboard shop (manager Bob Styles) helped me out with instruments for the recording sesions and Juan Pardo- spanish singer helped me out with some free time in Central Recorders studio (Denmark street) - that's why!
    All songs composed by Kornell Kovach
    Lyrics by Peter Mc Namee and Phil Daniels
    Linda Jardim (vocal) was invited to take part of a musical show of  Kornell Kovach in Belgrade (Radio Television Belgrade) 1983

    K2

        Why (1980)

    Butterflies

        Butterflies (1981, Inner City)

    Both K2 and Butterflies are projects by Kornell Kovach, Yugoslavian keyboardist.

    K2 lineup is:

                    Kornell Kovach (keyboards)
                    Linda Jardim (vocals)
                    Colin Hodgkinson (bass)
                    Paul Robinson (drums)

    They released the album Why. With two special guests: Bernie Marsden (guitar) and Ray Russell (guitar). The album was recorded in London during
    February/March 1980. Mostly co-written by Kovach and producer/engineer Peter McNamee. It says: "keyboards supplied by Rod Argent Keyboards" (he
    owns a keyboard store). Hey, in the special thanks section, there is a mention to a Spanish composer and singer, Juan Pardo. I'd like to know why!

    Butterflies was co-written with the Israeli composer Nachum Heiman. He assembled a band especially to record this album:

                    Kornell Kovach (keyboards)
                    Tom Blades (guitar)
                    Andy Pask (bass)
                    Colin Hodgkinson (bass)
                    Joji Horita (percussion)
                    Paul Robinson (drums)
     

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    Preguntas para Kornell:

    En la pagina que hay escrita en yugoslavo, veo nombres, pero no entiendo lo que pone. Puedes hablarme sobre las menciones a Juan Cero, Canovas / Rodrigo / Guzman, Enrique Melchor o Rios de Gloria?

    Crees que se pueden usar las fotos incluidas en esas paginas? Nunca uso fotos cogidas de otros sitios web, pero en este caso, si a ti te parece bien, lo hare. Tambien quisiera si puedes decirme un pie (footer) para las fotos que ves.


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    Very special thanks to: Kornell Kovach, for his great kindness and patience.


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