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When Vesna Petkovic was five or six years old, she would sit and play under the kitchen table, around which her family had gathered to cook and eat together. But what Vesna was waiting for was the moment when her mother would finally serve the cake and her father would start to sing. Before long, everybody would join in and a full-blown session would be underway. Little Vesna was so fascinated that she sometimes didn’t even notice the dawn was already breaking. And just as her family and neighbours once enchanted her, so too does she now enchant us. We stand in front of the stage, in thrall to her powerful, emotive songs. Vesna Petkovic was born in Nis (Serbia) in 1974. She studied music theory in her home town and later at the Graz University of Music and Performing Arts jazz singing, where her teachers included Mark Murphy and Sheila Jordan. Vesna graduated with the Federal Ministry of Culture’s prestigious “Würdigungspreis†in appreciation of her achievements. Almost immediately, she started performing in musicals and soon met like-minded musicians who formed a group by the name of Sandy Lopicic Orkestar and embarked on a meteoric career – releasing two CDs that met with critical acclaim, especially for the vocals. Vesna played festivals and some epochal gigs, including the North Sea Jazz Festival(Shantel+Bucovina Club Orchestar). In a year 2003,together with Thomas Mauerhofer,Reinhard Ziegerhofer,Martin Wöss,Aaron Ofner und Ismael Barious, big success with "Joni Mitchell Project".In the last years Vesna got together with some of the best musicians of her home region (Serbia and Austria) to found her own band, all the while quietly writing and arranging the music that she presents on her first CD "A NEW ONE"(zama recordings 2007).Working band - Vesna Petkovic 7tet,Sandala orkestar (Text-Maru)