Saša Kovačević at "Veliki Park" in Užice on November 13 - One of Five Stops on the Autumn Tour

Saša Kovačević brings his autumn tour to the "Veliki Park" sports hall in Užice on November 13, starting at 8 p.m. Tickets run at around 789 dinars through tickets.rs.

Kovačević was born on July 27, 1985 in Zemun, where he finished the "Kosta Manojlović" music school as a piano student, then went on to study recording and sound design at the Academy of Arts. That is not the usual profile for a pop singer from this region - most of his colleagues have no formal musical training at all, let alone a production background.

His first television appearance came in 2004 at the Sunčane Skale festival with the song "Pakao i raj". He did not win anything, but the performance opened the doors. Next came the single "Jedina si vredela", which grew into a major hit, and in 2006 he recorded his first album for City Records, with "Lagala me il' ne lagala" and "Ruka za spas" - the latter named song of the year. His second album, "Ornament", from 2010, cemented the status.

"Bežimo iz grada" became the summer hit of 2011, and "Korak do dna" is among the songs that stayed on playlists the longest. Two decades on, Kovačević is one of those Serbian pop names that reliably fill sports halls out in the provinces, not just in Belgrade.

The tour also takes in Kragujevac, Požarevac and Kruševac, and ends a week after Užice, in Šabac on November 20. Five cities in under a month, all of them outside the capital, none in Belgrade - a routing that tells you exactly where his audience is.