Davor Sučić (; born June 7, 1961), better known by his stage name Sejo Sexon, is a Bosnian rock and roll musician, film score composer, actor and television director. He is most notably the bandleader and a co-founder of the rock group Zabranjeno Pušenje, contributing on all Zabranjeno Pušenje releases. He was one of the founders of the New Primitivism movement in his hometown Sarajevo. As an actor, he has been featured in the Top lista nadrealista.
Music career
1980–1990
Sejo Sexon started playing the guitar at the age of 12. In 1978, he formed a rock band named Pseudo Blues Band with Nenad Janković, a singer and keyboardist who was his neighbor in Sarajevo at the time. The band worked on recording psychedelic compositions in home production and did not have live performances or official releases. In 1980, they invited Zenit Đozić to the band and renamed it to the Pseudo Blues Band Zabranjeno pušenje. Nenad Janković's younger brother, Dražen, was in the band too.
Initially using the pseudonym Elvis J. Spahović, Sejo Sexon was one of the founders of the New Primitivism movement in Sarajevo. In 1981, while most of the band members went off to compulsory military service, Dražen Janković and Sejo Sexon met with Elvis J. Kurtović and they formed the band Elvis J. Kurtović & His Meteors. Additionally, the band expanded by adding Dražen Ričl and Radomir "Hare" Gavrilović. Originally formed as an optional mingle, their first performance was in the fall of 1981. The band soon gets the status of a cult band whose success exceeds notability of their primary bands. Later, Sejo Sexon and Elvis J. Kurtović wrote all songs for their debut album Mitovi i legende o kralju Elvisu (), released through RTV Ljubljana in 1984. During this time, Sejo Sexon also worked on the first songs for Zabranjeno Pušenje. Their first recording, "Penzioneri na more idu zimi" (), was made for Radio Sarajevo in early 1981. In 1982, Sexon left Elvis J. Kurtović & His Meteors.
Sejo Sexon performed with Zabranjeno Pušenje around Sarajevo for two years before beginning to record material for a debut album during Fall 1983 in producer Paša Ferović's modest studio. The shambolic recording process took seven months before the album named Das ist Walter got released by Jugoton in April 1984 in the small print of 3,000 copies, clearly indicative of the label's extremely low commercial expectations. Though the album was initially released in the small print, the final count was 100,000 copies sold, setting a record for exceeding the initial release by 30 times. In Autumn 1984, they embarked on a 60-concert nationwide tour, making them one of the biggest Yugoslav rock attractions after just one album.
In the second part of the 1980s, Sejo Sexon wrote, arranged and produced songs for three more albums of Zabranjeno pušenje. The second studio album Dok čekaš sabah sa šejtanom (English: While you're awaiting dawn with the devil) is released through Jugoton on June 11, 1985. The third Pozdrav iz zemlje Safari () and the fourth studio album Male priče o velikoj ljubavi () are released through his hometown based record label Diskoton in 1987 and 1989, respectively.
In 1990, Sejo Sexon together with Darko Ostojić (a.k.a. Minka) and Faris Arapović left Zabranjeno pušenje due to different views on political differences in Yugoslav leadership in late 1980s and the band vision as well. In that time, Sejo Sexon and Ostojić worked on their solo record for Diskoton, but that studio album went unreleased due to the start of the Bosnian War.
1995–2010
After the Bosnian War, Sexon moved to Zagreb, Croatia where he lived for some time. Later he came back to Sarajevo, his hometown, and together with Elvis J. Kurtović restored Zabranjeno pušenje. In 1996, members of the sketch comedy show Top lista nadrealista pit orchestra such as Sejo Kovo, Đani Pervan, Dušan Vranić, and Samir Ćeramida had become the core of the renewed band. During that time, the band works on their new studio album. The fifth album of Zabranjeno pušenje Fildžan viška () is released through Dallas Records and Nimfa Sound in 1997. Sejo Sexon produced the album and wrote all songs with some help of Kurtović. In November 1995 in Zagreb, he established TLN-Europa, an independent record label and a video production company.