Miha Kralj

Slovenia, 1968–now

Slovenian composer (b. 1949) and the first electronic musician in Yugoslavia to work alone with sequencers and synthesisers. Andromeda (1980) was the country's first ambient and new-age record; it sold 21,000 copies at home and 100,000 across Europe, and got him called the Yugoslav Jean-Michel Jarre.

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Who influenced Miha Kralj?

• Jean-Michel Jarre — Kralj heard Jarre in 1979 and changed direction on the spot — bought a Korg sequencer and a polyphonic synth and became the first one-man band in Yugoslavia. The press ended up calling him the Yugoslav Jean-Michel Jarre.