 A Sarajevo native, Bregović started out with Kodeksi and Jutro, but rose to prominence as the main creative mind and lead guitarist of Bijelo Dugme, widely considered as one of the most popular recording acts ever to exist in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and one of the most important bands of the Yugoslav rock scene.After Bijelo Dugme split up, he started composing film scores.Among his better known film scores are three of Emir Kusturica's films ("Time of the Gypsies", "Arizona Dream", and "Underground").