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Mitar "Suba" Subotic / June 23, 1961 - Nov 2, 1999

Mitar "Suba" Subotic / June 23, 1961 - Nov 2, 1999

Another one gone way, way too young, Suba was already one of Brazil's top producers when he died from a studio fire in 1999 at just 38. Serbian-born, he started playing accordion as a child. Later on he was playing keyboards in punk bands in Yugoslavia and was producing new wave, electronic and experimental ambient music before heading to Brazil in the late '80s to study and work with Afro-Brazilian music. He permanently relocated to São Paulo in the early '90s. His career in Brazil saw him working on jingles and for fashion shows and dance & theater companies, while...

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