
After playing a secret show to a test audience in October, the group made their public debut to a sold-out crowd supporting Macedonian ethno music powerhouse Synthesis at Sydney's Factory Theatre in November 2019. Nenad co-founded Balkan Ethno Orchestra in July 2019 with several members of the defunct ethno ensemble Lazarikon ( see below). He has covered ex-Yu bands the likes of Bijelo Dugme, Ekatarina Velika, S.A.R.S., Divlje Jagode and Prljavo Kazalište, as well as mainstream bands like System Of A Down, Pantera, Iron Maiden, Deftones and Rage Against The Machine.Īs of December 27, 2021, Nenad has amassed over 4,600 subscribers and over 2,000,000 views on his channel. Teofilović continues to record and release drum covers to this day, and some of his most popular videos were recorded and released between 20. Teofilović and Bromley would, however, reunite in the rock band Nothing Like You ( see below). The band would find moderate success on Sydney's gig circuit, and would release two self-funded extended plays before folding in November 2018. The audition ended up taking place in October, and after three rehearsals Nenad was officially welcomed into the band on November 10, 2014. Bromley stumbled upon Nenad on YouTube while searching for drummers - he watched Nenad's drum cover of Alter Bridge's "Come To Life" and instantly contacted him. In August 2014, Teofilović was approached by guitarist Phil Bromley to audition for Australian heavy rock band Stormbird ( see below). Teofilović is currently working on Mario Andrić's solo album, to be released in the first half of 2022. In 2014, Teofilović, along with Andrić, Konstantinov and Velić, released a single titled "Ti Najbolje Znaš" (You Know Best), which premiered on Bosnian radio station Radio Q Zenica. Teofilović has also collaborated with well-known YouTubers and musicians from Serbia and surrounding countries, including Nenad Konstantinov (yesiloveguitar), Mario Andrić (izgubljenBEC), Mersudin Velić and Miloš Stojmenović aka " Nitro Acoustic", among others. The virtual group ceased creating content in 2013. Among their personnel were its founder, Montenegrin singer-songwriter Marko Šćepanović, Serbian cantautore Bojan "Chavez" Aleksić, and two popular contestants from Montenegro's wildly successful talent show "Let Ka Zvijezdama" (Flight To The Stars), Vuk MIjović and Lidija Kordić. They recorded both covers and original material. In 2012 Teofilović collaborated with a network of young musicians to form the virtual pop/rock group OMiGOD. He continued to release covers of songs by classic Serbian and ex-Yu rock bands, including Smak, Riblja Čorba, Generacija 5 and Kerber - Teofilović's cover of Kerber's song "Ratne Igre" (War Games) is his most viewed drum cover to date, clocking in at over 140,000 views. After releasing a few more covers in the weeks thereafter, the channel lay dormant until 2011, when Nenad released a cover of Serbian rock group Van Gogh's song "Kolo", gaining the attention of viewers in Serbia and other countries in the greater Balkan region. In December 2008 Teofilović created a channel on YouTube, initially under the username " thekingoftempe", and released that same month a drum cover of Nickelback's signature song "How You Remind Me". To this day Nenad plays both kits, in both studio and live settings. Teofilović was gifted his first drumset in 2007 as a graduation present by his uncle at the age of 22, and bought a second and more extensive drum kit in 2009. He continued to play basketball for the university team however, and wrote a thesis in his final year of studies on the topic of eye movements during reading. Teofilović studied psychology from 2003 to 2006, graduating cum laude from the University of Western Sydney, and during his tertiary studies was not musically active as he did not have access to a drum set. He played drums throughout high school, earning First Chair in school band and receiving two Outstanding Contribution Awards for sport and music. As a child Nenad excelled in sports, playing representative basketball in both primary and high school, and attained a junior black belt in taekwondo. Nenad first sat on a drumset at the age of nine and immediately fell in love with the instrument. Nenad was born in Sydney, Australia, to parents Vladeta and Dragica, and was raised in the inner-Sydney suburb of Tempe. 2 YouTube career and subsequent success.
