BokiR — Music & Words from the Edge

BokiR is a songwriter, bass player, and sound engineer shaped by the concrete pulse of New Belgrade, the raw poetry of protest, and the long road between survival and creation.

Raised in the underground punk scene of 1980s Yugoslavia, he formed his first psycho-punk band Gonoreja as a teenager — channeling the chaos of The Cramps, The Gun Club, Dead Kennedys, Siouxsie and the Banshees, but also Pekinška Patka, Šarlo Akrobata, Disciplina Kičme, and EKV. His formative years were spent between squats, backroom shows, homemade cassettes, political tension, and a city caught between collapse and rebellion.

Then came the war.
Then exile.
Then silence.
But the music never left.

After surviving the long detour, BokiR relocated to Paris, where he sharpened his technical skills at SAE Institute, building on years of hands-on experience in under-equipped studios and improvised stages. In his world, resourcefulness beats equipment. You learn to hear before you learn to own. You trust instinct before plug-ins.

He eventually built his own sound system, engineered live shows across venues, and turned fully toward songwriting — completing Berklee’s online songwriting program, and embracing narrative-driven composition in English, French, and Serbian.

BokiR’s strength is in the groove and the word.
His lyrics are precise. His stories are lived. His rhythms come from walking, waiting, surviving. He writes about displacement, resistance, exile, rage, tenderness, fatherhood, and the brutal poetry of city life. There’s nothing generic in his sound — it’s full of dirt, nuance, breath, contradiction.

He doesn’t write songs to entertain.
He writes to remember. To push back. To stay human.

Genres: Punk / Alt Rock / Urban Folk / Protest Songs
Languages: English · French · Serbian
Strengths: Groove-based composition · Visceral lyrics · Narrative structure · Multilingual songwriting
Base: Paris / Vitry-sur-Seine
For fans of: Nick Cave · Manu Chao · Patti Smith · Šarlo Akrobata · Disciplina Kičme · EKV · The Gun Club

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