Ljubomir Ninkovic, guitarist and vocalist group "S Vremena na vreme", "Charm", "Tunel" and "Bilja Krstić & Bistrik Orchestra", died at the age of 76.
The news of his death was announced on Facebook by Željko Stefanović, a longtime journalist of Radio Belgrade.
"It is with great sadness that I inform people from the world of music and numerous mutual friends that our Ljuban has left us. My wonderful one." Smederevo with a big heart and a beautiful soul. We hoped that he would live for us, that he would delight us with his presence in our lives, caress us with his notes. I thank God that he was among my friends from my childhood days near Gornja vaga, when Ljuban would pass through the corso - everything would stop, people really loved him. About the wonderful songs - not to mention, they were also a mirror of his noble soul," wrote Stefanović, as reported by the Nova portal.
Ljubomir Ljuba Ninković was born in 1950 in Smederevo.
He composed music for serials and television shows. He is the brother of our actor Slobodan Boda Ninković.
He received his primary, secondary and musical education in his native Smederevo.
The beginning of his musical career was marked by participation in amateur bands, and in 1967 he joined the group "The Spooks", with whom he began his professional career performing at "beat" dances throughout Serbia, where unestablished musicians presented themselves, reports RTS.
In 1969, he performed at the competition of young singers "Gong Club" with his composition "Kao vreme prjed nas" and won the first prize, after which he continued his career composing music for Radio Belgrade broadcasts.
Together with Asim Sarvan, Vojislav Đukić and Miomir Đukić, he founded the rock group "From time to time" in 1972. In the next seven years, they released 10 singles and three LP albums with hits: "Dixie Band", "Caravan", "Sunny Side of the Street", "My World", "Like Time in Front of Us", "Tema Classica".
They were considered the best acoustic band in Yugoslavia at the time, with original sound and arrangements, using folk instruments.
In 1980, he founded the group "Tunel" with Vladimir Janković Dzeta. In the period from 1988 to 1992, Ljuba Ninković was mainly engaged in writing and performing music for children in the then very popular TV show "On the other side of the rainbow".
The album "Zvuk tišine", which contains cult songs from the 60s and 70s of the last century with the personal stamp of Ljuba's musical sensibility, was recorded with the singer Marija Mihajlović in 1992. Then he started writing music for theater plays, and in 1995 he received the "Sterija Award" for the music in the play "Lucretija or the Devourer" by Jagoš Marković.
Together with the old team, he came up with the idea of reuniting the group "From time to time", which they did in 1993 with a concert at the Center "Sava". Until 1998, they recorded numerous performances and published two albums.
He began his collaboration with Biljana Krstić on the ethno-project "Bistrik" in 1999 as an arranger of traditional songs from the Balkans, which met with exceptional reception in the country and the region.
In addition to composing music for series and TV shows, in 2004 Ljuba joined the project "Renew ourselves - raise the Pillars", whose goal is the restoration of the Đurđevi stupovi monastery in Ras.
With the group "Stupovi" he recorded an album with spiritual and traditional music in modern arrangements.
He is one of the founders of the group "Zanovet", and as the leader of the ethno-group "Zlatopis" he released the self-titled album in 2014. Ljuba Ninković released the current and second independent album "Retromet" in April 2020.
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