That summer, in the not so distant year of 1997, on the first concert of instrumental musicians in Atelje 212, Zoran Alvirovic, Kina, with a guitar in his hands, broke the ice with his performance and enchanted the masses. It was then that we found out that he plays because he loves to and enjoys communicating with the crowd through his “six string pet”.

And, because every story has a beginning, it’s more that appropriate that we start it from here. His first and biggest love, the guitar, Kina found as a curious seven year old boy. Starting with his first guitar, a chech “Jolana”, and later switching to a Japanese made Ibanez, with hourless hard work and persistence he formed his first band called “ Kashmir”, at barely the age of eleven. Kashmir toured the region of Vojvodina, spreading the word of rock music until the year 1985. Later on, Kina went on with his career and performed with various artists, worked as a studio musician, and occasionally applied his talent to playing drums and bass guitar. In 1989, he became a member of a popular local bend “Garavi Sokak”, in which he stayed until 1993. After that experience, he switched to a band called “Ruza s Dunava” (“Rose of the Danube”), in which he stayed for two years. On demands by some musicians in Belgrade, he then left for the capital and continued to enchant audiences with his virtuosis, in Belgrade and Europe as well, all until
the bombardment of Serbia in 1999, after which he moved to his brothers band “Apsolutno Romanticno” (“Apsolutely Romantic"), where he still plays a role as a guitarist, arranger and
singer today.

With his creativity he enriched the albums of a lot of accomplished musicians. He collaborated with a large number of rock, pop and folk performers, but but also with a lot of famous actors in Serbia. As the only representative of the city of Novi Sad, Kina appeared at the first concert of instrumental guitarists at “Atelje 212” in Belgrade. Having performed two of his own compositions he gained the crowds respect, applause and a lot of good critics. The two compositions along with eight more waited nine years to actually see the light of day, on his first solo album “Trag U Vremenu” (“A Trail in Time”), that came out in the beginning of may 2006, published byOne Records. In the meantime, Kina became an unofficial promoter of Japanese Ibanez guitars for the whole Balkan region, and in the dawn of june 2007 he held the first guitar clinic at a local club, which was packing with guitar players and other musicians, all of whom enjoyed the three hour show.