Tomaž Pengov

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Tomaž Pengov
Color photograph of a casually seated middle-aged bearded male wearing casual clothing and resting a guitar on his lap.
Pengov in 2005.
Background information
Origin Ljubljana, Slovenia
Occupations  • Musician
 • Singer-songwriter
Instruments  • Lute
 • Steel-string acoustic guitar
 • Twelve-string guitar

Tomaž Pengov is a Slovenian singer-songwriter, guitarist, lutist, and poet.[1]

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He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He recorded his first album Odpotovanja in 1973.[2] This album is considered to be the first singer-songwriter album in former Yugoslavia[3] It was reissued in 1981 in stereo; the original mono edition is very rare now.

Pengov sings and plays lute, steel-string acoustic guitar and twelve-string guitar. His music is lauded by many[who?] as being original, and his style is very similar to that of the early Leonard Cohen.

He took eight years, from 1980 to 1988, to record his second album, Pripovedi, recorded with guest musicians. The music is still acoustic, but more varied.

In the 1990s, he recorded two more albums, Rimska cesta (1992) and Biti tu (1995). In 2011, he published the audiobook Drevo in zvezda (Tree and Star), in which he recites his poems.[4]

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