MARTINA MAJERLE – ‘Alive’ song release. Photo MARTINA MAJERLE Management

SLOVENIA : Single release for Martina Majerle following EMA Eurovision Success

Ljubljana, 23.03.2015 – A very talented & well-known Eurovision artist, Martina Majerle, is returning to the radio stations with a new song called ‘Alive’. The premiere of her new song was on Slovenian national selection (EMA 2015) for Eurovision Song Contest. The song is her third single after two very successful radio hits – the first one is a cover of a legendary hit ‘Luna nad obalo’ (Moon above the coast), originally performed by Slovenian pop group Kingston, and the second one was with Dare Kaurič in the song ‘Čokolada in vanilija’ (Chocolate and vanilla).

Martina Majerle started her music career back in year 1997, when she was collaborating with a Croatian music group Putokaz, which produced ethno, electronic, movie and pop music. After the band fell apart, she joined electro-pop project Atmospheric, with which she did two studio albums. She gained her music experience as a backing vocalist of major music singers in area of EX-Yugoslavia. Tereza Kesovija, Zdravko Čolič, Severina, Tony Cetinski, Doris Dragović, Massimo Savić, Oliver Dragojević, Sergej Četković, Nina Badrić, group Novi Fosili – this are just a few of many well-known artists in the area of EX- Yugoslavia, that she did backing vocals for.

She is familiar with european stages aswell. She stood on Eurovision stage for 7 times. For the first time as a backing-vocalist for the Croatian representative Claudia Beni in 2003, two times as a backing-vocalist for Montenegro (2008 and 2014), and 4 times for Slovenia – she was a backing-vocalist for 3 times and a lead singer in 2009 with Quartissimo, with a song ‘Love Symphony’ in Moscow, Russia.

This time she is sending to the radios her new song ‘Alive’. The song is work of Andrej Babić, he is a well-known Eurovision composer (Croatia 2003, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2005, Slovenia 2007, Portugal 2008, Slovenia 2009 & Portugal 2012) – he’s also responsible for the music and lyrics of the song, but the real head of the project is producer Branko Breković, who collaborated with Martina on her cover of the song ‘Kalimba De Luna’. As she said herself, they have created a modern, feminine electro-pop ballad with elements of rock. The single was premiered on this years EMA, and now she is sending it on all radio stations, all over Europe.

Speaking of her new song “My new single Alive is not a part of my own love story, but I think, that every woman can find herself in it, as well as I did. Every women has for sure been in a situation, when she had a hard times because of love, that was never given back to her or a relationship, that she did not forget and that she would like to be in a life of that man again. This song has a special meaning. Personally, the melody itself, took me over more than its lyrics and because of that the recording of the single was a real pleasure to me, even if the song was really hard and challenging. If you will like the song half as much as I do, my goal will be complete, because the song is written and sung with a lots of love.

Author : Jan Vehar

Source : Eurovision Ireland