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ŽANIL TATAJ - ŽAK Date of birth: 2nd of May 1967, Rijeka (Croatia). He graduated from Music high school in Rijeka finishing course of violin and viola.In addition to that he is also a multi instrumentalist.Žak has learned vocal technics from his mother Petja Tataj, famous piano player and vocal pedagogist. Žak has started his rich music career in mid 80' in famous Rijeka's band JERSEY.He recorded his first album with JERSEY for jugoslavian discography label Jugoton.They had numerous concerts all around Jugoslavia and have recided many different awards from various rock festivals.In the begining of 90' the band had stopped performing, because Žak, who was known for his great vocal performances, was invited to perform with legendary rock band DIVLJE JAGODE (Wild Strawberries).They recorded an album Magic Love with the intention to be published on the european market.Because of the war DIVLJE JAGODE had stopped performing and therefore Žak has started working with the slovenian band MARY ROSE.He recorded an album with the band, but because of the fire blast in studio Tivoli it never saw the light of the day.MARY ROSE also stopped performing then. In the begining of 1994, Žak has also contributed on the joined project with the famous european rock bands HELLOWEEN and GAMMA RAY.He also worked with the ex guitar player of the band CRVENA JABUKA on the project MADCAP LAF' in Germany. In 95 & 96 he worked as an instrumentalist and vocalist on two albums of slovenian band called TURBO.In the second half of 1995 he founded a band in Croatia called AQUA and they had also recorded an album. He again returned to DIVLJE JAGODE with the concert Final top 1000 in Stuttgart.This concert was broadcasted by SDR 3, MTV and other european Tv and radio stations.He successfully performed with D.J.until 1999 all over Europe and recorded an album Sto Vjekova.In 1999 he recorded his first solo album and performed on some festivals with a fiew songs.At the end of 1999 he published his symphony album with the title CHRISTMAS SONGS.With the begining of 2000 he started performing with two slovenian bands ČRNA GRADNJA and AMBASADA.Due to the need for making original authors music he again founded MARY ROSE with the guitarist EKI A.in the 2004 and the result of this work is a new MARY ROSE album FENIKS published in 2006.He also founded a jazzy band NORNE with famous Rijeka's vocalist,where Žak is playing a bass guitar.This band performs various songs in various languages and is getting ready for concerts and possible Cd. This rich career is nowhere close to end and audience is waiting for Žak's future performances and albums.
Translated by dipl.prof.Mirjana MiÄetić