Background
Born in Niš during World World War II in the Nazi-occupied Serbia to a Hungarian father and a Serbian mother, Kovač grew up in a prominent artistic family - his grandfather was a conductor, his father a music professor and a violinist, his mother a singer in the opera choir.
Education
He didn"t pass the entrance exam so he entered the Academy Of Music Arts of University of Sarajevo where he graduated from the Theory And Piano Department.
Career
Kovač received his early music education at the College of Music in Subotica, after which he attempted to enroll in the Belgrade Music Academy. A composer, pianist, keyboard player, producer and arranger, Kovač"s career as a professional musician started in 1961, when he formed his first band, BKB, which became a prominent jazz trio at the time. In 1963 they entered The Yu Jazz Festival, that took place in Bled (Slovenia).
After conducting the various orchestras in Bosnia, he finally joined Sarajevo"s most popular popular band Indeksi.
With them he had a two-month-long tour in Russia. In 1968, he moved to the Yugoslav capital, Belgrade, where he founded Korni Grupa.
With Korni Grupa he entered following music festivals in Europe:
1969 - Singing Europe (Netherlands), voted the most original entry
1970 - Rock Festival Katowitze (Poland)
1972 - Montreux (Switzerland)
1974 - Eurovision Song Festival (Brighton, United Kingdom)
In 1979, Kovač moved to England where he collaborated in various projects, such as: the 1980 Reading Rock Festival as the keyboardist of the Jenny Darren Band. Among the prominent British musicians with whom Kovač worked while in the United Kingdom, included:
Bernie Marsden, guitar player of "White Snake"
Hans Zimmer, composer
Paul Jones, ex-singer of Manfred Mann
Andy Pask, base player of Landscape
Kovač has written music for theatre, movies and television
Like the composer of popular and rock music he has been greatly successful.
His songs were released on numerous LP-s in Yugoslavia, Spain, France, the United States, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Norway et cetera Many of them were Golden or Platinum Records. Since 1979, he has participated in many projects in Spain, as a producer, composer or arranger.