Albin Jarić (born 1953), better known by his stage name Jimi Rasta, is a Bosnian–Slovenian musician, painter, and mineralogist.
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Born | 1953 (age 68–69) Zenica, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia |
Nationality | Bosnian / Slovenian |
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Alma mater | University of Ljubljana |
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Instrument(s) | Percussion |
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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.
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