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Albin Jarić

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Albin Jarić
Born1953 (1953)
Died2023 (aged 69–70)
NationalityBosnian / Slovenian
Other names
  • Jimi Rasta (von Zenica)
Alma materUniversity of Ljubljana
Occupations
  • Musician
  • disc jockey
  • painter
  • mineralogist
Musical career
Genres
InstrumentPercussion

Albin Jarić (1953–2023), better known by his stage name Jimi Rasta, is a Bosnian–Slovenian musician, painter, and mineralogist.

Career

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Jarić is born in 1953 in Zenica, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia. He started playing drums in the first year of high school when he won an audition for a school band. In 1976, he met Jamaican Brian and African Ken in a student settlement, both guitarists and singers with whom he founded reggae band Night Duty.[1]

In Zenica, he finished high school and enrolled studies in metallurgy at the University of Zenica. After a year he continued his studies in Ljubljana at the Ljubljana Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Department of Mineralogy.[1] Upon arrival in Ljubljana, Jarić devotes himself to the renovation of one basement in the Rožna Dolina student settlement, under the auspices of the student organization Forum. In a few years, this basement becomes the famous nightclub, Student Disco (later Disco FV, nowadays Club K-4[2]). Jarić worked there as a disc jockey playing rock, reggae, dub, and worldbeat music.[1]

Jarić was employed by the Institute of Metallurgy and Mining as a junior researcher until the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991.[3] In 1992, Jarić set up the band Planet People in Jamaica.

In 2001, Jarić joined the Bosnian garage rock band Zabranjeno Pušenje.[4] He performed on their seventh studio album Bog vozi Mercedes (2001), as well as on a live album; Live in St. Louis (2004). As a percussionist, he performed on 350 concerts of Zabranjeno Pušenje. Jarić left the band in 2004 when he made a break from music career and became devoted to painting.[1][5] As a percussionist, he has worked with a variety of bands, playing rock, punk, afrobeat, reggae, jazz, and all the way to Canadian country and the Balkan groove.

Discography

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Zabranjeno pušenje

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "JIMI RASTA PARTY s slikarsko razstavo in izidom plošče". metropolitan.si. 30 April 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Ljubljana's alternative places: #Klub K4". solvdmag.com. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Jimi Rasta s prvim videospotom!". si21.com. 5 December 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  4. ^ "Kako je i kad nastalo Zabranjeno Pušenje?". jabuka.tv (in Bosnian). Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  5. ^ "Kako je nastalo i opstalo Zabranjeno pušenje?". rirock.com (in Bosnian). Retrieved 29 December 2019.
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