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(Nenad Bach)
Nenad Bach, Croatian-American singer-songwriter, composer, and producer, has a distinguished musical career spanning 50 years. He has performed and recorded with Luciano Pavarotti, Bono & The Edge (U2) and Brian Eno, with whom he featured at Pavarotti and Friends in Modena, Italy, in 1995. Nenad has also performed with the Indigo Girls, Richie Havens, Garth Hudson & Rick Danko (The Band) and Vince Welnick (Grateful Dead), and also at Woodstock in 1994 in front of half a million people. He has recorded seven original albums for Sony, Universal, Decca, and Polygram, produced seven albums of traditional Croatian music, made a compilation album with Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, and Allen Ginsberg, and scored documentaries and feature films, including Croatia’s entry into the 1999 Academy Awards. Nenad has sold more than one million records.
distinctive mix of introspective rock and soul as a solo artist, again reaching Number 1 in Europe with his second solo album, and performing with the Nenad Bach Band. One of his most celebrated songs is Can We Go Higher? (1992), an anthem for peace and love aimed at stopping the war in his homeland through rising above perceived differences.
Nenad is also an engineer, peace activist, business owner, and not-for-profit founder and strategist. He founded CROWN (Croatian World Network, www.croatia.org), an online information source for Croatians and friends of Croatia. Former US President Bill Clinton consulted him during his administration, and Nenad has met with many other global leaders. He has contributed to the UN Chronicle, the magazine of the United Nations, on his project World Peace in One Hour. In 2006, Globus Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential Croatians in the world. His achievements have been featured by CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, Sky Channel, ESPN, media outlets in Europe, Asia, and South America, and in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Billboard, and Corriere Della Sera. The 2014 documentary Everything is Forever, directed by Victor Zimet, about Nenad’s life, won multiple international film festival awards.
In 2010, Nenad was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, which began to affect his signature guitar style. In 2016, after taking up ping pong, he discovered that playing the sport reversed his symptoms and restored his ability to play syncopated rhythms. On March 1st, 2017, he founded PingPongParkinson®, now active in 30 countries, to help others with Parkinson’s experience the benefits of table tennis. This global community is chronicled in the book PingPongParkinson: It Started with a Tremor and It’s Shaking Up the World. In October 2025, Nenad will compete in the 6th PingPongParkinson World Championship. With unshakeable belief, humour, and humility, Nenad continues to share his message of joy, hope, and peace worldwide through art, culture, and sport.