Author: Aleksandar Sazdovski
Place: Croatia
Date: 3 February 2011

One of the main reasons Darko Rundek is so revered in all of former Yugoslavia is his profound simplicity. Or maybe it's his undeniable skill for projecting simplicity through his otherwise emotionally and instrumentally complex music. His live performances can be overwhelming and his stage persona a mystery, yet this Croatian singer-songwriter always sings and writes songs with an erudite clarity that's unrivalled in the Balkans.

Author: Aleksandar Sazdovski
Place: Croatia
Date: 17 May 2010

Ever since he was a 17 year old boy growing up in Ivanić-Grad, a small town near Zagreb, Croatia, Branko Galoić has had a passionate kinship with music. Galoić, who in the year 2000 moved to Amsterdam and recently released his second album "Skakavac" (meaning grasshopper or locust), says that initially, everything he learned about music came from Ivanić-Grad's local musicians.

Author: Ruby Russell
Place: Croatia
Date: 10 February 2010

BJ Nevenko is originally from Petrinja in central Croatia and moved to Graz, Austria in 1991, shortly after war broke out in Yugoslavia. Starting out as a journalist, Nevenko’s passion for music eventually took over and he became a pioneer of a Europe-wide movement that is re-interpreting traditional Balkan sounds.

Author: Silvana Srdoc
Place: Croatia
Date: 13 March 2009
(photos: Martina Kenji/tportal.hr)

The Beat Fleet, a Croatian band widely known by its initials TBF, is the brightest star on the music scene in the region. As it goes with most acclaimed musicians, TBF crosses musical genres, with hip hop roots, mixed with rock, spiced with jazzy vibe and a reggae groove.