Severina

[Paper Gangsta 6,692]

 

 

Severina is a Croatian pop singer popular across the entire former Yugoslavia. In 2006, Nacional weekly listed her among the 100 most influential Croats, calling her "the only bona fide Croatian celebrity".

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Severina's style can be described as pop with various folk and cabaret influences. As a child, she took smaller parts in theatre and opera productions in her native Split. During the 1980s, having won numerous awards at local festivals, she launched her professional career at an early age, which ultimately resulted in her moving to Zagreb in 1989 to expand her career further. In the same year, she recorded her first studio album titled Severina. During the 1990s, she established herself as a national pop icon with chart-topping hits such as "Dalmatinka" (1993), "Paloma nera" (1993), "Trava zelena" (1995), "Od rođendana do rođendana" (1996), "Djevojka sa sela" (1998), "Prijateljice" (1998), "Ja samo pjevam" (1999), "Ante" (1999) and others.

 

Following the huge success of her 2001 album Pogled ispod obrva, Severina's 2002 concert tour Virujen u te further confirmed her status of one of the most popular Croatian music artists. After a two year break, she released her 8th studio album Severgreen in 2004. In 2006, she won the Dora 2006 festival with the song "Moja Ã…¡tikla" and represented Croatia at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, Greece, on May 20, 2006, finishing 13th with 56 points. The song caused some controversy in Croatia when a few journalists and musicologists claimed the song resembled the music of Serbia. However, prominent Croatian ethno-musicians such as Dunja Knebl and Lidija Bajuk disagreed, and both the song's composer Boris Novković and Severina herself have claimed that the song includes Croatian folk music influences from the Dalmatian Zagora (Inner Dalmatia) such as ganga and rere singing and lijerica instrumentation.

Severina's long-anticipated tenth studio album Zdravo Marijo (Hail Mary), mostly composed by Goran Bregović, was released in May 2008. After the first single from the album Gas, Gas was released, accusations followed once again that particularly due to the brass elements and mischievous, prankish lyrics, the song closely resembled turbo-folk, another type of music played in Serbia. Additionally, after having made several public appearances wearing clothes depicting religious imagery (most notably a tight shirt with an image of the Virgin Mary with Severina showing ample cleavage), some protested the abuse of religious elements, calling them offensive. However, the album has been popular and Severina released four more official music videos for singles "Tridesete" composed by Sezen Aksu, "Gade", "Haljinica Boje Lila" and "Zdravo, Marijo" (title track) composed by Bregović. On December 15, 2009, Severina released her next single called "Lola", which is the part of the Miligram compilation.

Her album and tour "DobrodoÃ…¡ao u klub" (Welcome to the club) held her at the top of Croatian pop music for a whole 2012 and 2013 year, producing hit singles such as "Brad Pitt", "Italiana", "Tarapana" and title track "DobrodoÃ…¡ao u klub".

 

In October 2013 she released new single entitled "Hurem" and in the March of 2014 she releases song entitled "Alcatraz", the lead single from her upcoming 12th studio album. Month later she relased new song "Brazil" as anticipation of the World football cup. The third single "Uno Momento" which was recorded in collaboration with band "Ministarke" was released in July. Official music video for the single got more than 728,000 views on official youtube channel in only 24 hours, breaking regional record which held her previous single "Italiana". In October 2014 she releases another this time with singer SaÃ…¡a Matić which got more than 750,000 views in 24 hours breaking record previously held by "Uno Momento"

 

STUDIO ALBUMS

Severina (1989) 

Dalmatinka (1993)

Trava zelena (1995) 

Moja stvar (1996) 

Djevojka sa sela (1998) 

Ja samo pjevam (1999)

Pogled ispod obrva (2001) 

Severgreen (2004)

Zdravo Marijo (2008) 

DobrodoÃ…¡ao u klub (2012) 

12th studio album (2014)

 

[Pop 4,541]

I like her because she kind of flips around the whole idea of villager music ("turbo folk") and kind of makes fun of it while still appealing to that audience.

 

I loved her collaboration with the punk band Let 3 and her record Zdravo Marijo which makes fun of religion (which is still controversial in a country like Croatia)

 

Also, she's fierce as ****.

 

[MyQueen 2,409]

Moja Ã…¡tikla :haha:

[loribb 338]

Severina on GGD omg :toofloppy:

 

Malo nas je al' nas ima.

[Phoenix 17,395]

Where's "Djevojka Sa Sela" and "Dobrodosao U Klub"?

[Paper Gangsta 6,692]

Where's "Djevojka Sa Sela" and "Dobrodosao U Klub"?

In the recycle bin

[Phoenix 17,395]

In the recycle bin

 

[Paper Gangsta 6,692]

I might add DUK :)