Steven Wagner - Stevan Vagner, Podrum COLLEGIUM MELODIUM, World music museum in BELGRADE, R.T. Srbija and Great Srdjan Marjanovic, present "L'Italiano (Lasciatemi Cantare)" (commonly known as "L'Italiano") ,an Italian pop song by Toto Cutugno released 1983. It was his biggest international hit and is his best-known composition. The song was forgotten during the 1990s and was re-birthed when Toto Cutugno performed it live at a charity concert in Rome commemorating Italy's victory at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, creating a new wave of popularity for this song and Srđan Marjanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Срђан Марјановић) is a Serbian singer-songwriter from Belgrade. In 1973, at the Subotica Youth Festival, he won the Jury Award for the song "Tražim" ("I Am Searching"). During the same year, he appeared at the Zagreb Festival with the song "Prvi put sretni" ("Happy for the First Time"). In 1974, at the Opatija Festival, he performed the song "Ja te volim, ljubavi" ("I Love You, My Dear"). These songs were released on 7" singles, which Marjanović recorded with bass guitarist Dušan Ćućuz and drummer Mića Lolić "Žorž". After he ended the cooperation with the two, Marjanović recorded and played with the band SOS, with keyboardist Đorđe Petrović occasionally joining them. He often performed the opening act on YU Grupa concerts, and he performed as the opening act on Belgrade concert of the British band Soft Machine.
He recorded his first studio album, entitled Srđan Marjanović i prijatelji (Srđan Marjanović and Friends) in 1974, with the members of YU Grupa. The backing vocals on the album were sung by the members of the acoustic rock band Zajedno, among which was, at the time, Bora Đorđević In the autumn of 1975, Marjanović and three other singer-songwriters, Drago Mlinarec, Ivica Percl and Tomaž Domicelj, held a month-long tour entitled Četvorica za mir (Four for Piece).
In 1978, Marjanović went to serve the army. After returning from the army, he formed his backing band, Puma, which featured Božidar Kazanić on bass guitar, Petar Jablanov on drums and Slobodan Milivojević on keyboards. For a short period of time, Ratislav Đelmaš and Luka Bošković were the band's drummers. On the 1979 two months-tour across Soviet Union Marjanović went with the band Nova Dimenzija (New Dimension).
