Among his songs, "Ti si mi u krvi" from the eponymous album is widely considered one of the most popular ballads of ex-Yugoslav music. At one point he ran a meter dash in He also attended music school, studying guitar playing. His first significant public singing experience occurred in while at the Montenegrin coast for the Yugoslav Republic Day celebrations. Over time, the group started getting more gig offers, which presented a problem since its army part was not available for many of them, and those offers had to be declined.
In the summer of , Novi ambasadori scored a month-long gig with Indexi in Dubrovnik , which was their first tour-like experience. No one from the festival noticed this plagiarism and the band avoided the controversy. However, his stint with Korni grupa ultimately proved to be very short and largely unsuccessful as he never meshed well enough with the rest of the group musically, finding it hard to fit into their progressive rock style.
Due to numerous complaints, the song was taken off radio playlists. Only six months after his arrival to Belgrade, he returned to Sarajevo determined to give his solo career a try. Then came the first big break that launched him on the road to stardom. The song placed poorly but became a well-respected hit at home.
Around the same time, he also signed a deal with the German arm of WEA record label and did two singles for that market. German producers thought that his name was too difficult to pronounce for their consumers so they marketed him as Dravco. His first solo album was Ti i ja You and I , released in by Jugoton.
Cover sleeve was done by Dragan S. At the end of that year, he went on a Yugoslavia-wide tour with Indexi. After the Belgrade concert, the measure of his sudden fame was on public display during autograph-signing at the Jugoton store as the cordon of girls rushed the store, breaking a window glass in an attempt to get closer to him. That song was soon released on a 7-inch single record [ sr ] and sold , copies. The copies were extremely sought-after, as 50, sold in the first two weeks alone.
