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Janika (Jovan) Balaž was born on December 23rd 1925 in Lukino selo near Zrenjanin into a Hungarian Roma family with a long musical tradition, which gave him the prerequisites to become a musician himself. From his early age he fell in love into music and dedicated his whole life to it. His father's surname was Rač which was an insulting Hungarian word for a Serbian so hi took his mother's maiden name - Balaž. His father was a contrabassist and his grandfather was a well known cimbalom player in Budapest. When he was seven he talked his parents into buying him his first tambura and he earns his first sven dinars playing children songs to the passengers in a train from Bačko gradište to Bečej. That were the first tones played by that later renowned and esteemed musician and virtuoso. Janika Balaž spent more than 50 years with his prim and became a legend. With his artistic knowledge, taste and style he raised folk music to a very high level. Each of his interpretations is marked with deep emotions since he was born, grew up and lived with folk songs. He received numerous awards for his work. Ge traveled the world with tambura carrying the joy of music throughout Europe, America, Africa an Australia... He will be remembered by his open approach to every kind of music which he transformed with his tambura into deceiving moments in which it seemed that the reality of life, its beginning and end, can be postponed...
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