Dado Topić (born September 4, 1949 in a village near Nova Gradiška, Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a singer who sang the entry from Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 together with the band Dragonfly. He is one of the most popular rock musicians of Croatia and the former Yugoslavia. He was the lead singer of Time, a 1970s progressive rock band. From 1970 to late 1971, he was also the lead singer of the popular prog-rock band Korni Grupa (also known as The Kornelyans).

Topić has performed at Etnofest Neum twice: in 1997 with “Na te mislim” and in 2008 with “Nema prodaje

Marina Perazić (rođena 29. maja 1958) je pjevačica zabavne muzike iz Rijeke. Samostalno i u duetu Denis & Denis, Marina Perazić je predvodila talas elektronske muzike osamdesetih godina i bila je seks simbol pop scene tadašnje SFRJ.

Nakon povratka iz Njujorka, sredinom 1990ih se vraća u Beograd gde snima novi album sa pesmom “Južni ritam” u kojoj se pominje “…moj Beograd…”. Nakon početka NATO bombardovanja SR Jugoslavija, odlazi iz Beograda za Rijeku.

Vesna Zmijanac (Serbian: Весна Змијанац; Serbian pronunciation: [v̞ê̞sna zmijǎːnats]; born January 4, 1957 in Nikšić, Yugoslavia, now Montenegro) is a Serbian folk singer.
She released 13 albums, 6 singles and several compilations. Her singing career started back in 1979 with the single “Thank You for All”, and after that came a few popular singles and first album in 1981. In addition to her singing career appeared in several series and movies such as “Plum juice”, “Truck drivers 2″, “Truck drivers drive again.”

Sinan Sakić (Serbian Cyrillic: Синан Сакић, Romani: Sinan Sakičh; born October 13, 1956) is a Serbian folk singer of Roma descent. He launched his career back in 1978 with the singles “Rastanak kraj reke” and “Sreli smo se mnogo kasno”. As of 2006, he has released 27 music albums. He gained his first musical experience from his father who was a musician in the military orchestra. He is very popular in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria.

Sinan has a house in India, where he spends his vacation.

His son, Medo Sakic, is also a singer.

She released her first album in 1984 titled Imam dečka nemirnog (I have a restless boyfriend). She released an album every year from 1984 to 2000(except 1998). After 2000, she didn’t release any albums until 2004 because she got married to an Austrian businessman, Toni Bijelić, and decided to take time off and dedicate herself to her newly-formed family. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, Dragana toured and recorded with the band Južni Vetar (Southern Wind). She is one of the most famous Serbian singers ever and during the 1990s she was the most popular of them all. Her success was indescribable. In 2004, she released a new album and with it she marked 20 years of her career. In 2006, Dragana released her 19th album titled Luče moje (My honey). At the end of 2008, she released a new album entitled “Eksplozija” (Explosion). With that album, she proved that she is still on the top.

Dragana Mirković and her husband Toni Bijelić have a son, Marko, and a daughter, Manuela. They reside in Vienna, Austria. The couple own a balkan music DM SAT  channel, which is watched by many Europeans, but can also be watched throughout the world through a prepaid website entitled Balkaniyum.

“Stairway to Heaven” is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released in late 1971. It was composed by guitarist Jimmy Page and vocalist Robert Plant for the band’s untitled fourth studio album (usually referred to as Led Zeppelin IV). The song, running eight minutes and two seconds, is composed of several sections, which increase in tempo and volume as the song progresses. The song begins as a slow acoustic-based folk song accompanied by recorders before electric instrumentation is introduced. The final section is a high-tempo hard rock section highlighted by an intricate guitar solo by Page.

The song, often considered one of the greatest rock songs of all-time,was voted #3 in 2000 by VH1 on its list of the 100 Greatest Rock Songs, and was placed at number 31 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”. It was the most requested song on FM radio stations in the United States in the 1970s, despite never having been officially released as a single there.^[6] In November 2007, through download sales promoting Led Zeppelin’s Mothership release, “Stairway to Heaven” hit #37 on the UK Singles Chart.

Writing & Recording

The recording of “Stairway to Heaven” started in December 1970 at Island Records‘ new Basing Street Studios in London. The song was completed by the addition of lyrics by Plant during the sessions for Led Zeppelin IV at Headley Grange, Hampshire, in 1971. Page then returned to Island Studios to record his guitar solo.

The song originated in 1970 when Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were spending time at Bron-Yr-Aur, a remote cottage in Wales, following Led Zeppelin’s fifth American concert tour. According to Page, he wrote the music “over a long period, the first part coming at Bron-Yr-Aur one night”. Page always kept a cassette recorder around, and the idea for “Stairway” came together from bits of taped music:

I had these pieces, these guitar pieces, that I wanted to put together. I had a whole idea of a piece of music that I really wanted to try and present to everybody and try and come to terms with. Bit difficult really, because it started on acoustic, and as you know it goes through to the electric parts. But we had various run-throughs [at Headley Grange] where I was playing the acoustic guitar and jumping up and picking up the electric guitar. Robert was sitting in the corner, or rather leaning against the wall, and as I was routining the rest of the band with this idea and this piece, he was just writing. And all of a sudden he got up and started singing, along with another run-through, and he must have had 80% of the words there … I had these sections, and I knew what order they were going to go in, but it was just a matter of getting everybody to feel comfortable with each gear shift that was going to be coming.

Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones recalled this presentation of the song to him following its genesis at Bron-Yr-Aur:

Page and Plant would come back from the Welsh mountains with the guitar intro and verse. I literally heard it in front of a roaring fire in a country manor house! I picked up a bass recorder and played a run-down riff which gave us an intro, then I moved into a piano for the next section, dubbing on the guitars.^[13]

In an interview he gave in 1977, Page elaborated:

I do have the original tape that was running at the time we ran down “Stairway To Heaven” completely with the band. I’d worked it all out already the night before with John Paul Jones, written down the changes and things. All this time we were all living in a house and keeping pretty regular hours together, so the next day we started running it down. There was only one place where there was a slight rerun. For some unknown reason Bonzo couldn’t get the timing right on the twelve-string part before the solo. Other than that it flowed very quickly.

The first attempts at lyrics, written by Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant next to an evening log fire at Headley Grange, were partly spontaneously improvised and Page claimed, “a huge percentage of the lyrics were written there and then”. Jimmy Page was strumming the chords and Robert Plant had a pencil and paper. Plant later said that suddenly,

My hand was writing out the words, ‘There’s a lady is sure [sic], all that glitters is gold, and she’s buying a stairway to heaven’. I just sat there and looked at them and almost leapt out of my seat.” Plant’s own explanation of the lyrics was that it “was some cynical aside about a woman getting everything she wanted all the time without giving back any thought or consideration. The first line begins with that cynical sweep of the hand … and it softened up after that.

The lyrics of the song reflected Plant’s current reading. The singer had been poring through the works of the British antiquarian Lewis Spence, and later cited Spence’s Magic Arts in Celtic Britain as one of the sources for the lyrics to the song.

In November 1970, Page dropped a hint of the new song’s existence to a music journalist in London:

It’s an idea for a really long track…. You know how “Dazed and Confused” and songs like that were broken into sections? Well, we want to try something new with the organ and acoustic guitar building up and building up, and then the electric part starts…. It might be a fifteen-minute track.

Page stated that the song “speeds up like an adrenaline flow”. He explained:

Going back to those studio days for me and John Paul Jones, the one thing you didn’t do was speed up, because if you sped up you wouldn’t be seen again. Everything had to be right on the meter all the way through. And I really wanted to write something which did speed up, and took the emotion and the adrenaline with it, and would reach a sort of crescendo. And that was the idea of it. That’s why it was a bit tricky to get together in stages.

The complete studio recording was released on Led Zeppelin IV in November 1971. The band’s record label, Atlantic Records was keen to issue this track as a single, but the band’s manager Peter Grant refused requests to do so in both 1972 and 1973. The upshot of that decision was that record buyers began to invest in the fourth album as if it were a single. In the US, Atlantic issued “Stairway to Heaven” as a 7″ promotional single in 1972.

The song’s wistful folk-style sound, with Robert Plant on lead vocals, acoustic guitar by Jimmy Page and mandolin by John Paul Jones, contrasts with the heavy electric-amplified rock on four of the album’s other tracks. Page’s guitar is in double drop D tuning: DADGBD.

The song is reportedly about Canadian singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell, with whom Plant and Page were both infatuated. In live performances of the song, Plant would often say the name “Joni” after this stanza (which is thought to have referenced Mitchell’s 1967 composition “I Had a King”):

In 1981 Janković started his solo career, and Divlje Jagode released Motori (“Motorcycles”) with Islamović on vocals. Title track became huge hit, and songs “Šejla”, “Zagrizi rokenrol” and ballads “Nasmiješi se” and “Ne želiš kraj” were well accepted. On the part of the tour that followed Motori release they were joined by Janković. Two following albums Čarobnjaci (“Wizards”), which featured hits “Morrison” and “Čarobnjaci”, and Vatra (“Fire”), which featured hits “Ciganka”, “Let na drugi svijet” and “Moja si…”, were both well accepted, and the band signed a contract with British record company Logo Records under the name Wild Strawberries

During the war Lipovača lived in London and Zagreb. After releasing his solo album Magic Love Lipovača reunited Divlje Jagode. In 1994 they released album Labude, kad rata ne bude (“Swan, when there Is no more War”). In 1996 Lipovača, Budimlić, bass guitarist Sanin Karić and vocalists Žanil “Žak” Tataj and recorded a softer, ballad-oriented album Sto vjekova (“Hundred Centuries”).

At the end of 1990s Lipovača, Budimlić and Thomas Balaz and vocalist Pero Galić recorded Divlje Jagode latest album Od neba do neba (“From Sky to Sky”) which was released in 2003. First Divlje Jagode singer Ante Janković, as well as other former members Žanil Tataj, Emir Cerić, Livio Berak and Marko Osmanović, joined the band on their live performances on several occasions. In 2006 the band released the single “Piramida”.