Dolce Hera

Dolce Hera is the stage name of Aleksandra Prelević Palladino, a Montenegrin musician born on 16 December 1991 in Podgorica. She studied at the Vasa Pavić music school in her home town and graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Montenegro and from the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Mediterranean University.

She started out behind the drums. At the invitation of the Montenegrin drummer Dragoljub Đuričić she performed with him at the Montenegrin National Theatre, and in 2007 she became the drummer of the Podgorica punk rock band Shin-ei.

After a break of about ten years she came back to music in 2023 as a singer with "Common Dreams", recorded with Nina Žižić. Its video was directed by Đorđe Jovanović and Jovan Dudić with costumes by the fashion designer Ana Krgović, and it passed 100,000 views on YouTube by July. On 27 October 2023 she followed it with "Sweet and Bizarre", sung in Italian with Vladana Vučinić, and directed the video herself.

In 2024 she received a scholarship from the Miloš Karadaglić Foundation and played the Rubix Festival in August. Her song "Repeat" was one of the sixteen entries in Montesong 2024, the Montenegrin selection for Eurovision 2025, and in November she released "Trivial Lovers", again with a video she directed. She returned to Montesong in 2025 with "Casanova 91", and her later singles include "Star Kids" and "Vječna mi bila".