Magazin | |
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Also known as | Mladi Batali (1979) Dalmatinski Magazin (1979-1982) |
Origin | Split, Croatia |
Genres | Pop |
Years active | 1979–present |
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Members | Željko Baričić Nenad Vesanović Lorena Bućan |
Past members | Tonči Huljić Ivan Huljić Miro Crnko Igor Biočić Zoran Marinković Ante Miletić Vocals: Majda Šoletić (1st singer) Marija Kuzmić (2nd singer) Ljiljana Nikolovska (3rd singer) Danijela Martinović (4th singer) Jelena Rozga (5th singer) Ivana Kovač (6th singer) Andrea Šušnjara (7th singer) |
Magazin is a Croatian pop band from Split. Founded in 1979 under the name Dalmatinski magazin ("Dalmatian Magazine" in Croatian), the band quickly began to make a mark on local pop music festivals with its songs influenced by Dalmatian folk music. One of the most prominent bands in Yugoslavia and one of the longest lasting, with 45 years active in the music industry in Croatia and former Yugoslavia. The band currently consists of lead vocalist Lorena Bućan, guitarist Željko Baričić and bass guitarist Nenad Vesanović Keko. Baričić is the only active founding member even though Vesanović featured on every album to date.
In 1979, the band Magazin, then under the name "Mladi batali", was founded by Željko Baričić, Zoran Marinković, Miro Crnko, Igor Biočić and vocalist Majda Šoletić in Split then Yugoslavia. That same year, they signed a record deal with the record company Jugoton and recorded their first LP singles, but also changed the band's name to "Dalmatinski magazin". At the end of the same year, the band gained two new members, Tonči Huljić and Nenad Vesanović Keka.
In early 1982, Majda Šoletić left the band, and was replaced by Marija Kuzmić. That same year, the band changed the band's name to "Magazin" and recorded their first album Slatko stanje (Sweet State), and performed at the Split Festival with the song "Dišpetožo moja mala", where they won the first prize of the professional jury. At the end of the year, they performed at the Zagrebfest with the song "Moja mala mila". [1]
Their gradual rise in popularity continued in the 1980s with a series of prestigious festival victories. Their peak of popularity was reached when Maja Kuzmanić left the group and was replaced by Split born singer of Macadonian descent Ljiljana Nikolovska who became the band's lead singer. The leader and songwriter Tonči Huljić began to insert elements of folk music of other European countries in his songs. On Split Festival '83 they performed Kokolo off of their album Kokolo which was released in December. The album was sold in 270,000 copies and was Platinum certified. [2] Drummer Zoran Marinković left the band in 1984, and was replaced by Ante Miletić. The band performed at the Split Festival that same year with the song "Nikola", and then released their third album, O, la, la . In 1985, they performed with the song "Vrati mi, vrati sve" at the Split Festival, and with the song "Piši mi" ("Write to me") at the Zagrebfest, where despite receiving by far the largest number of audience votes, Magazin did not win due to a set-up. In protest at the ceremony announcing the winner, the band refused to go on stage and accept the second prize from the audience, and the outraged visitors left the Lisinski Hall in large numbers, with loud protests and whistles. [3] Tonči Huljić started collaborating with songwriters from other parts of Yugoslavia such as Marina Tucaković who wrote many of Magazin's songs. In 1985 they released the fourth album Piši mi (Write to Me), with most prominent songs like: "Tamara", "Oko moje sanjivo", "Piši mi" & "Istambul". The album 'Piši mi' reached diamond certification, when it was sold in 380,000 copies and it's considered their best album and their masterpiece of Croatian pop music. [4] It was recorded in Zagreb at Janko Mlinarić's studio Truli. It was the beginning of a long-term collaboration with arranger and producer Mate Došen. At the Split Festival in 1986, they won the second audience award with the song 'Ne mogu da ga ne volim'. At the Zagreb Fest in 1986, the song 'Piši mi' received recognition for the most performed song from the previous festival. In early December of the same year, the album Put putujem (The path I travel) was released, for which they received the "Zlatna Ptica" ('Golden Bird') for more than 670,000 copies of the album sold [5] [6] and it's considered to be one of the best selling albums in Yugoslavia.
In 1987, the band went on a major tour of Yugoslavia, and at the end of the year they released the self-titled album Magazin , which sold more than 500,000 copies and for which they received the "Zlatna ptica" award. [7] [8] The album was written by Nenad Ninčević, Zvonimir (Zvonko) Stipičić and their previous collaborator Marina Tucaković who wrote: "Ti si želja mog života" and "Tri sam ti zime šaptala ime". In 1988, they released the seventh album Besane Noći (Sleepless nights), which got diamond certification, sold in 200,000 copies [9] and the following year (1989) they released the album Dobro jutro (Good Morning), the last album with vocals by Ljiljana Nikolovska, which got another diamond certification and equivalent of 200,000 copies. At the end of 1990, a large compilation "Svi najveći hitovi 1983-1990" (All the greatest hits 1983-1990) was released with 26 of the best songs of the group Magazin, sung by Ljiljana Nikolovska. [10] After this compilation and due to a war that occurred in Croatia, she left the group and went to the San Pedro, California where she still resides.
In 1991, instead of Ljiljana Nikolovska, the lead singer became Danijela Martinović who became popular during Split Festival, where she met Tonči Huljić. In 1991 they released their 9th as a group and first with Danijela album titled Da mi te zaljubit' u mene (If I could make you fall in love with me). Tonči Huljić kept on collaborating with Marina Tucaković who wrote "Djana", "Ostani nježan do kraja", "Ustani", "Svi igrači", "Tišina" and most notable song from that album “Bilo bi super”. On that album they recorded an anti-war song "Mir, mir, mir do neba" ("Peace, peace, peace to the sky"), and in the same year, keyboard player Miro Crnko leaves the band for family reasons. In 1993, they released a new album Došlo vrijeme (Time has come) and performed at the Melodije Hrvatskog Jadrana festival with the song "Neću se vratiti" ("I will not return"). The following year, they performed again at the Melodije Hrvatskog Jadrana with the song "Simpatija", a duet with Marija Bubić and won the Grand Prix of the festival. In the same year, they released the album Simpatija (Simpathy), which was published by Croatia Records and reached a gold edition. [11] In 1995, Magazin won the "Dora" (Croatian pre-selection for Eurovision Song Contest) and they performed "Nostalgija” with opera singer Lidija Horvat-Dunjko. They represented Croatia with their song "Nostalgija" on Eurovision Song Contest 1995 and finished six-th. [12]
In 1996, Danijela Martinović left the band, and Jelena Rozga took her place. In 1995, Tonči Huljić started looking for a new singer for the group, who was supposed to replace Danijela Martinović. Tonči and Jelena's mother Marija arranged an audition. Jelena sang the songs "Opusti se" and "Zlato ljubavi" in a restaurant in Zagreb, after which she was accepted into the group. Jelena first performed on Dora under her own name, performing the song "Aha" and won second place, and only later on Melodije hrvatskog Jadrana in 1996, she made her debut as a singer of the group Magazin with the song "Suze biserne". At the age of 19, Jelena became the band's new and youngest singer. [13] [14]
In the same year, an album called Nebo boje moje ljubavi (The sky of colour of my love) was released, which included the big hits: "Suze biserne", "Minut srca tvog", "Nebo boje moje ljubavi" and "Samo navika" collaboration with Croatian singer Oliver Dragojević. The album achieved a gold circulation. The year 1997 was marked by a performance on Dora with the song "Opijum", and after that a performance on Melodije hrvatskog Jadrana '97 with the song "Ime mi spominje". Two years after the album Nebo boje moje ljubavi, in 1998, the album Da si ti ja (If you were me) was released. The mentioned album also contained numerous successful songs, including: "Gutljaj vina", "Ginem", "Briga me", "Na svijetu sve", "Idi i ne budi lude" , "Luna", "Na Sve Svete" and "Opijum". With the song "Na svijetu sve", the group competed at the Dora in 1998, and with the song "Idi i ne budi ljude" at the Melodije Hrvatskog Jadrana in 1998. The album reached platinum circulation in Croatia and Slovenia.
At Dora 1999, the group performed with the song "Kasno je", and at Melodije Hrvatskog Jadrana with the song "Ako poludim". After the album "Da si ti ja", the album Minus i plus was released in 2000. In addition to the aforementioned song of the same name, the album also includes hits such as: "Jel zbog nje", "Kasno je", "Nemam snage da se pomirim" and "Ako poludim". In 2002, Magazin with Jelena Rozga released 15th album S druge strane Mjeseca (The other side of the Moon). The album continued the success of the previous albums, so this album also included numerous successful songs such as: "S druge strane Mjeseca", "Ne vjerujem tebi, ne vjerujem sebi", "Dani su bez broja" collaboration with Esma Redžepova which became international success and "Tko me zove".
The album with the symbolic name Paaa..? (Sooo..?) released in 2004 is the last album of the Magazin group with Jelena as the lead vocalist. Like the previous albums, the album was a great commercial success and contained numerous hits such as the songs: "Ne tiče me se", "Troši i uživaj", "Kad bi bio bizu" and "Da li znaš da te ne volim". At the Radio Festival in 2003, the group performed the song "Kad bi bio blizu", and at the Split Festival the same year, the song "Da li znaš da te ne volim". A year later, the group performed the song "Ne tiče me se" at the Split Festival and won the festival at the same time. After almost five years of absence, Magazin returned to Dora with the song "Nazaret" in 2005 and won second place, and a year later they performed at the same contest with the song "Oprosti mala". At the same time, this performance is considered to be the last performance of the group with Jelena Rozga as a vocalist. The almost ten years Jelena was a member of the Magazin group is considered one of the most successful and productive periods of the group. [15] In addition to successful songs and albums, the Magazin group also held large concert tours with Jelena as a singer. Thus, concerts were held in Belgrade's Sava Centar in 2002 and 2004, while in 2000 a concert was held in Sarajevo's Skenderija. [16] [17] Jelena left the band in 2006 to focus on her solo career.
As Jelena Rozga stepped out of the band to continue her solo career, the band made a special Live TV competiton-audition program on HRT in 2006 to choose a new singer who is going to replace Jelena Rozga. Amongs those singers were Lidija Bačić, Andrea Šušnjara, Lea Mijatović, Slavica Buzov and Zorana Kačić. The girls take turns and sing in front of the jury, which includes the original band member Tonči Huljić, singer Đorđe Novković, Mirko Fodor and Duško Ćurlić. However, in the end, none of them became new singer of the group, but the new vocal became Ivana Kovač, daughter of Croatian singer Mišo Kovač. [18] [19] In the same year, they release the album Dama i car . In 2010, Andrea Šušnjara, who was one of the girls from the audition, managed to become a singer of the group. Magazin together with Andrea released the debut single "Kemija" ("Chemistry"), and immediately became a huge success in Croatia and internationally, gaining 10 million views on YouTube channel till this day. She became the longest lasting main vocal member of the band lasting 14 years in the band (from 2010 - 2024), and they released album in 2014 titled: Mislim Pozitivno! ("I think Positive!"). Andrea left the Magazin in 2024, to continue her solo career. [20]
Andrea left Magazin in November of 2024 and in one Zagreb's night club Magazin announced the new 22 year old singer from Split Lorena Bućan, and the new Magazin released a new single "Nevjestica" on November 8, 2024. [21]
Magazin became one of the most popular and most influential music bands in Croatia and Yugoslavia. Their biggest hits are "Put putujem" (I'm travelling), "Ti si želja mog života" (You are the desire of my life), "Oko moje sanjivo" (My sleepy eye), "Sve bi seke ljubile mornare" (All girls would kiss the sailors), "Balkanska ulica" (Balkan street), "Istanbul", "Zna srce, zna" (The heart knows, knows), "Boli me" (It hurts), "Besane noći"(Sleepless nights) , and many more. Most of these songs are considered as classics in Croatia. The band won the first iteration of Dora in 1992. with the song "Aleluja" but Croatia was not eligible to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest. Later, they entered the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest with "Nostalgija".
Title | Album details | Main vocalist | Sales |
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Slatko stanje | Marija Kuzmić | ||
Kokolo |
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O, la, la |
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Piši mi |
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Put putujem |
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Magazin |
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Besane noći |
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Dobro jutro |
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Najbolje godine |
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Da mi te zaljubit u mene |
| Danijela Martinović | |
Došlo vrijeme |
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Simpatija |
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Nebo boje moje ljubavi |
| Jelena Rozga |
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Da si ti ja |
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Minus i plus |
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S druge strane Mjeseca |
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Paaa..? |
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Dama i car |
| Ivana Kovač |
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Bossa n' Magazin |
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Mislim Pozitivno! |
| Andrea Šušnjara | |
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