Biography

Being a part of showbizz world, means to be fully prepared for making own personality visible, more often to expose whole private life to public eye, what also necessary suggests to consider mismatch between hopes and reality. It is the matter of balancing advantages against disadvantages of showbusiness. For the time being, still exists the question what is the thing that urges people to go on stage, make the bow and start singing? There is no answer yet. This is an interesting but almost unexplained sociological phenomenon.

The strong possibility is that Mladenka had never questioned herself about that issue, because, if she had, nobody knows in which direction her life would have led her... Key pieces of the puzzle appeared to be put in order in 1987, and for the first time in her life, awaken wishes had become true. She went on stage with the guitar in Pazin, and won her first praise.

As far as we concerned life has its own rules, but without any particular reason it's been a long time passed until she had her first professional performance. In the meantime, Mladenka got married, gave birth to daughter Lea, but quickly divorced as it often happens among young people.

She was born in Kopar (port city Slovenia). Her father is a typical Dalmatian from Silba island, her vibrant, outgoing mother was from Osijek. She was raised in picturesque Novigrad where she became attracted to music. Great city walls, heavy sea waves constantly hit the rocks, plus golden Istrian autumn colours, affected to Mladenka's strong, likable personality, the inclination towards diversity and her brilliant vocal expression... She obviously moved into right direction.

Career

When young people decide to set off towards the unknown path „through hardships to the stars“, they usually have two options: First, regardless of quality to be wide accepted by often manipulative media, what implies becoming an instant star, highly acclaimed by critics and branch, bombarding by countless statues, but at the end of the day, also to face the fact that there is no left any real perspecitive or promisses for tomorow. That picture of glamour usually gone missing quickly, „overnight stars“ soon become forgotten and quickly disappear from the public life...

The second option is hard–labor, painful, re-examining one. At the same time, it brings suspicion as well as praise, urges or erase the last hope and faith in success. Live performance, often in front of mainly senseless audience, though sometimes public rating could be very much objective judgment, however, that is the moment someone might expect critical turn of events. Looking for a better, Mladenka choose harder way to seek for fortune. Porec was the place where the life she was dreaming of, came true. Her first professional appearance ended with standng ovations and big applause after performing unrehearsed eight song (she had prepared seven ones). The most interesting thing was that just at that moment, power cut on stage. I have never revealed if someone deliberately unpluged the cord.

Later her career led her here and there, from places such as Dajla, Završje, over Maribor, Trieste, Opatia... to countless destinations across Slovenia, tourist center Rogla-Zreće, where she spent next nine impressive years entertaining public from all sides of the world: from state of Oman, The United Arab Emirates, Israel, Russia, Japan to European people from north Danmark to Kragujevac...
In the meantime she colaborated with many different composers and producers from Trieste to Bihać, which resulted with multiple performances on festivals through the region.

Although permanently „second-best“, her interpretation was always highly praised. It happened to be the key factor for building up her personal self confidence and at the same time the sort of confirmation of improving her artistic skills. Her first officialy single "Noćas si moj" was published 2017. under the lebel of „Croatia records". This song is a kind of reconsidering and testing unknown musical genres.
Mladenka kept up with experiments, released a new single „Andjeo i vrag“ in colaboration with D.Rapotec Ute at Ivan Popeskić studio in Lovran.

Plans

Bihać is the city which attracted Mladenka at first sight, as well as Una river. Almost surreal shades of green inspired her to dedicate song „Kad na Uni behar zabijeli“ to that natural beauty and what is more important, to return to its amasing environment over and over again.

This year (2019) Festival of music in Bihać celabrates its 25 anniversary which is a sort of great phenomenon. General manager of the festival, Mr. Dilvad Felić invited Mladenka to perform on July. 29. at the evening of oriental style love song, with an old, well known song „Rasla je ruža“. There is no doubt it will be extremely emotional interpretation.

She was dreaming of performing with big symphonic festival orchestra at open stage. This desire will come true in Šibenik through the evening of dalmatian chanson. The invitation has come for august. 16. Mladenka will perform the impressive song "Massaggio d'amore" by Italian pop band „Matia Bazar“ who won the Sanremo contest 2002.

This is happen to be the year of the beginning Mladenka's proffesional career. It seems the stars still observe and follow up Mladenka closely.

P. R. Manager Santo
Translated from Croatian by Slavica Pejković