AW, JAYSUS, I DON´T KNOW WHERE TO START, HANG ON...The story's simple as that: Axel saw me performing on a big festival in the North of Germany (Kieler Woche) in 2004 and asked me to arrange something together as he was very keen on to work on my songs. So I told him that if I ever got back from Ireland I would give him a shout.
After 1,5 years in the West of Ireland where I won Weststar (maybe it's good to mention this part...) I decided to go back to Hamburg and the baby was born. So we formed our little band and it turned out to be the best to keep it as small as possible as we'd like to be able to tour in a low budget sort of thing. The German music industry would not support that kind of music, though, as it's absolutely deadlocked on copying American artists by using German lyrics. And that's were I don't see me at all...and so on and so on...Alex Lukanovic, as the name implies, was born in Germany, more precisely, in Haßfurt (Franconia), although her roots are in Bosnia. Both of these countries are crucial to her music.The emotional extremes of the Balkan show through in her songs on the one hand, but on the other it is very rational. Alex Lukanovic understands how to bring these two inconsistencies perfectly in line. Her music is a cross between engrained tempers and emotional aspects that collide and become whole. Metaphors express the experiences she gained in Bosnia, Ireland and Germany. She is never afraid of bringing up controversial subjects such as war and death, or just to cater for the simple things of daily life like interpersonal circumstances.So she takes leave from her Bosnian grandmother in Dark Horse, in Plastic Marzipan she criticizes the things in the world that she perceives as shallow and artificial. In accordance with this her songs are sensitive and vulnerable but at the same time joyful and sanguine as well. Her clear and powerful voice is no passenger to the melody; it is a central driving force in the music.As versatile as her music and her life is now, she would not be out of place performing in a Bosnian female choir under conduction of Goran Bregovic. The Bosnian spirit on stage would not be an almost rare ritual act as it is now, but an integral part of her stage performance.
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