Career
Early career Neno Belan started his career as a teenager in the band Losos, Kavijar i Marsovi Bizoni (Salmon, Caviar and Bisons from Mars). The band performed Dalmatian folk songs, and Belan played mandolin. and solo career In 1984 Belan formed the band (The Devils), which performed music inspired by 1950s rock and roll. The band successfully performed until 1991.
In 1991 disbanded due to the outbreak of Yugoslav wars, and 1991 Split Festival, where Belan and Anja Šovagić Despot were scheduled to perform the song "Ljubav postoji zbog nas", was canceled.
Belan appeared on the Split Festival in 1992 performing song "Zaboravi". In 1993 he released his first solo album, Vino noći (Night Wine).
The album also featured English language versions of "Vino noći" and "Sunčan dan". In 1994 he released European Parliament Mama, and the title track was a candidate for the Croatian representative at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.
The European Parliament also featured songs "Beat na moru" (a cover of the 1960s Delfini hit) and "Ne pitaj za nju" (a duet with Toni Cetinski).
During the 1990s, Belan performed mostly abroad, while in Croatia he appeared mostly at music festivals. In 1995 He released popular-oriented album Dolazi ljubav (Love Is Coming). On the tour that followed the album release he was followed by the bass guitarist Olja Dešić and the drummer Leo Rumora.
In 1997 he released the album Južnjačka utjeha (Southern Comfort).
The album featured a cover of The Vibrators" "Baby Baby" (Belan"s version entitled "Lezi, baby") and a cover of Bob Dylan"s "Blowin" in the Wind" (Belan"s version entitled "Odgovor u vjetru"). In 1998 Belan reunited when Vedran Križan joined the band as the keyboardist, thus finished the gathering of the group, soon to be known as "Fiumens", but not before they tried to revive old "" brand so the band released the album Space Twist.
However, disbanded once again, and Neno, Olja, Leo and Vedran formed the band, and they released albums Luna & Stelle in 2002 and Rijeka snova (The River of Dreams) in 2007 as, as well as "Dream factory" in 2009, double Civil Defense, live from "Tvornica" (factory), for which they got many discography awards in Croatia (PORIN).
