Banana (band)

Banana
Banana performing live in Niš in 1985
Background information
Origin	Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Genres	Rock, pop rock, power pop
Years active	1985 – 1988
Labels	PGP-RTB
Associated acts	Partibrejkers
Past members
Aleksandra Toković Boban Šaranović Dragan Lončar Srđan Cincar Igor Borojević

Banana (Serbian Cyrillic: Банана) were a former Yugoslav pop rock band.

Band history

Banana was formed in 1985 in Belgrade. They released their debut album Ponoćni pasaži (Midnight Sections) in 1986 in the following lineup: Aleksandra Toković (daughter of the famous composer Dragan Toković, vocals), Dragan Lončar (guitar), Boban Šaranović (bass guitar), Srđan Cincar (keyboard) and Igor Borojević (drums). The album was pop rock-oriented and featured the guitarist Duda Bezuha, the keyboardist Saša Lokner, and a former Zamba member Bogdan Dragović as guest musicians. In the summer of 1987 the band performed in Czechoslovakia, and at the beginning of 1988 they released their second album Banana‚ produced by keyboardist Đorđe Petrović. Aleksandra Toković wrote seven songs which marked the band's shift towards power pop-oriented sound. Soon after Banana disbanded. Borojević became a member of Partibrejkers, Aleksandra Toković became a television presenter at Radio Television of Serbia and Cincar formed the band Fantomi.

Discography

• Ponoćni pasaži (1986)
• Banana (1988)

References

• EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4