Zorán Sztevanovity (Serbian: Zoran Stevanović, Cyrillic: Зоран Стевановић), born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 4 March 1942) is a Hungarian musician (guitarist), singer and composer of a Serbian origin. He has two children, Zoltán and Sandra.
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He got to Hungary in 1948 with his parents who were on a diplomatic mission, after two years in Prague. In 1960, with his brother Dušan and their friends he founded an amateur band called Zenith which changed its name to Metro in 1961, when they began to play in the Metró Klub, the club of the underground building company.[1][2]
Zorán often takes part of talent shows and pop festivals in the sixties with his band or in solo and wins in 1963 with a Gerschwin song. Enthused by success, he stops his studies at Budapest University of Technology (he read to be an electronic engineer) and becomes a professional musician. At this time Metro is one of the three most popular beat bands in Hungary with Illés and Omega, the so-called 'beat-trinity'. Metro publishes two albums and about 40 singles.
After the Metro's breaking up in 1972, Zorán began a solo career. He played bass in the band Taurus XT and spent some years abroad.[1] He's been working with Gábor Presser, pianist-composer of the Locomotiv GT since 1976. His first solo album came out in 1977 and became one of the most successful albums published in Hungary ever. It contained his best-known song Apám hitte. This LP was soon followed by two more: these three albums are considered to form a single unit in his work and are mentioned as a 'trilogy'.
After his fourth album he received the Franz Liszt Prize given by the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 1982.[2] In the late eighties and early nineties he presents a program in Radio Calypso. He was the first in Hungary who made an unplugged concert in 1993 in the Budapest Sports Hall.
Emotional profusion, poetic composition and often a dry sense of humour feature his songs, which are almost all composed by Gábor Presser and written by Dusán. You can also find some treatments of songs by Leonard Cohen, Mark Knopfler, Chris Rea, Sting and others among his works.
He has recently got married to actress Barbara Hegyi.[3]