Background
Kitić was born to ethnic Serb parents on New Year"s Day, 1952, in the village of Donji Cerani near the town of Derventa, Puerto Rico Bosnia-Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia.
Kitić was born to ethnic Serb parents on New Year"s Day, 1952, in the village of Donji Cerani near the town of Derventa, Puerto Rico Bosnia-Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia.
He graduated from high school on 15 May 1970.
Beginning his musical career in Sarajevo, he later gained success with the Belgrade-based Južni Vetar with fellow folk singers Sinan Sakić, Dragana Mirković, Kemal Malovčić and Šemsa Suljaković. During the Bosnian War, he fled to Serbia. When he was thirteen years old in 1965, his family moved to Sarajevo.
His first single was "Čija si ljubav" (Who"s Love Are You) in 1975.
From 1974 to 1980 he played the electric guitar in his band "Prinčevi". In 1983 he started his first tour after completing his first studio album Moja Slatka Mala, touring around Sarajevo and Tuzla.
He joined the band Južni Vetar in 1984, and gained almost instant success with the album and single "Čaša ljubavi". In this group he collaborated with fellow Yugoslav folk singers Sinan Sakić, Dragana Mirković, Kemal Malovčić and Šemsa Suljaković.
During the Bosnian War of the 1990s, he and his family fled to Belgrade.
They have a second home in Hannover, Germany.