Janika Balaž (Јаника Балаж or Janika Balázs) (born December 23, 1925 in Lukino Selo near Zrenjanin, died November 12, 1988 in Novi Sad) was a famous tamburitza musician and band leader from Serbia. He was born 1925 to a Hungarian-speaking Romani family with strong musical tradition. His father's surname was Rác (or Rácz), which was a Hungarian term for Serbs that was considered derogatory, so he took the mother's surname Balázs. He grew up in Bečej, where he started playing violin in a local kaf
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).