Goran Karan was born on April 2, 1964. In the beginning of the 80's, Goran started his career as a musician in various bands such as "Epicentar", "Deveti krug", "Zippo" and "Big Blue". In 1995, as a frontman of the band called "Big Blue", Goran received an award for the rock hit of the year for the song "Priznaj mi". Later in the same year, Goran was given the lead role in the musical "Sarajevski krug" (The Sarajevo circle). Album from the musical and the Big Blue's debut album were released both in Croatian and English.