Jurislav Jura Stublić was born in 1954 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1961 he moved with his parents Tomislav and Vesna to Sesvetski Kraljevec near Zagreb. His father was from Sesvetski Kraljevec, and he was a singer too. His mother was a tailor. In Zagreb, he studied philosophy but he never graduated. During the ex-Yugoslav New Wave he was also known as Jura Jupiter. He started his musical career as a member of Croatian rock group Azra in 1977.