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Rale Micic

Serbian musician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ7286868
Source-derived summary

Rale Mićić (Serbian Cyrillic: Рале Mићић; born 9 October 1975) is a Serbian jazz guitarist and composer.

Micic moved to United States in 1995 after receiving a scholarship from the Berklee College of Music, where he studied with George Garzone, John Thomas, and Bob Brookmeyer. It was also by that time that Mick Goodrick, became his mentor.

In 2000, Micic moved to New York City. His debut album, Bridges (CTA, 2003), mixed jazz with Balkan music. His second album, Serbia, featured jazz trumpeter Tom Harrell.

In 2010 Micic started a guitar duo series called Guitar x2. During the next decade, many prominent jazz guitarist performed as a part of the duo series, including Peter Bernstein, Gene Bertoncini, Ed Cherry, Jack Wilkins, Lage Lund, Mike Moreno, and many more.

Editorial summary

“Rale Micic” enters the record as serbian musician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rale, Micic and Serbian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1995, 2000, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-10-09. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rale, Micic and Serbian.
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Why this record matters

“Rale Micic” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rale, Micic and Serbian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7286868. VIAF identifies the subject as 83557205. The Library of Congress control number is no2009033155. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975, 1995, 2000 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from Rale Micic” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.