Keba Reveals 2Soma as Third Guest for Tasmajdan Concert

Dragan Kojic Keba has revealed the name of his third special guest for the concert at Tasmajdan Stadium, and it is rapper 2Soma. The announcement came on August 6, just over a month before the show.

The concert is called “Now and Who Knows When” and is set for September 12 in Belgrade. Keba has been releasing the names one at a time. The first was Tanja Savic, the second Ana Bekuta, and now the third name on the list is in.

The singer paired the announcement with a short message to fans.

Music is at its most beautiful when it brings together people, generations, different musical styles and new kinds of energy.

“It’s with great pleasure that I introduce my third special guest, 2Soma,” Keba said in the concert announcement.

What Keba and 2Soma sing together

Their joint song is called “Mega, giga, ultra.” It is credited to 2Soma, Dragan Kojic Keba and Shemsi. It will be performed live at Tasmajdan, in front of an audience that bought tickets before knowing who else would be joining the lineup.

That is also the biggest difference from the rest of the list. Tanja Savic and Ana Bekuta come from the same musical world as the host of the evening. 2Soma does not.

Who is on the guest list so far

Three names have been announced so far, in this order:

• Tanja Savic, the first guest announced
• Ana Bekuta, the second guest announced
• 2Soma, the third special guest

The order of the announcements is not accidental. The first two went in the expected direction and kept the story within the pop-folk pages. The third broke that pattern and opened it up to an audience that does not normally follow Keba’s concerts.

Why a duet with a rapper is news, not a detail

Folk and rap have crossed paths on the domestic scene for years, but usually through singles and social media posts, not through a major solo concert by a singer with more than three decades of career behind him. Keba is not keeping that kind of collaboration confined to the studio, he is bringing it to the stadium, in front of an audience that came for his old hits.

We wrote about that calculation earlier, in the piece “Keba Before Tasmajdan: When the Unlikely Come Together,” when it was already clear the guest list would not be built along genre lines. The 2Soma announcement confirms that logic, it does not depart from it.

For the singer himself, this is also a practical move. An open air concert in September depends on how many people leave their homes, and the younger audience for the rapper’s songs is not the same crowd that knows every word of Keba’s ballads. With three names now announced, the show offers three different reasons to show up.

What is known about the concert

The date is set for September 12, the venue is Tasmajdan Stadium, and the program is called “Now and Who Knows When.” Everything else, from the schedule to the running order, has not been announced.

What has been released says enough about the format. Instead of one long block of hits, the evening is split into segments built around the guests, with each guest bringing their own part of the program and their own song recorded with the host. Keba described the format by saying the people on stage are people with whom he recorded a duet and with whom he opened a new musical chapter.

The announcements came a few days apart, so the list of three names was not put together all at once. Five weeks remain until the concert, and the singer has not said the list is closed.