The band soon gets the status of a cult band whose success exceeds notability of their primary bands. Originally formed as an optional mingle, their first performance was in the fall of 1981. Additionally, the band expanded by adding Dražen Ričl and Radomir 'Hare' Gavrilović. Kurtović and they formed the band Elvis J. In 1981, while most of the band members went off to compulsory military service, Dražen Janković and Sejo Sexon met with Elvis J. Spahović, Sejo Sexon was one of the founders of the New Primitivism movement in Sarajevo. Nenad Janković's younger brother, Dražen, was in the band too. In 1980, they invited Zenit Đozić to the band and renamed it to the Pseudo Blues Band Zabranjeno pušenje. The band worked on recording psychedelic compositions in home production and did not have live performances or official releases. In 1978, he formed a rock band named Pseudo Blues Band with Nenad Janković, a singer and keyboardist who was his neighbor in Sarajevo at the time. Sejo Sexon started playing the guitar at the age of 12. His oldest son, Harry Varthakouris, is also a singer.Further information: Zabranjeno Pušenje and New Primitivism 1980–1990 Yiannis Parios has performed of Greece, at Royal Albert Hall, Carnegie Hall and most of the major venues in Canada, Australia, the United States, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Turkey and Israel. One of his releases holds the record for Greek sales (one million and four hundred thousand units): this was the album 'Nisiotika', released in 1982 and consisting of a collection of songs of the Aegean islands which, as an islander himself, he may have learnt and first sang in childhood. A number of his songs have been translated and sung abroad. He has written lyrics of his own, and often composed music. Yiannis Parios has worked with many of the leading Greek composers, including Manos Loizos, Giorgos Hatzinasios, Stavros Xarchakos, Stamatis Spanoudakis, Yorgos Katsaros, Marios Tokas, Yannis Spanos and Mikis Theodorakis. Under its new title 'Tora pia', the song was a hit, on an unprecedented scale for the time, and it marked the beginning of a new age in which many Greek singers adapted 'foreign' melodies to Greek lyrics. Yannis Parios was the first Greek singer to perform Alain Barriere's song 'Tu t'en vas' with Greek lyrics. He made his first appearance as a singer in 1969.

Yiannis Parios was born Ioannis Varthakouris (Ιωάννης Βαρθακούρης) on the island of Paros.

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