Jasna Zlokić

Jasna Zlokić, born Jasna Dragojević on 15 March 1955 in Vela Luka, is a Croatian pop singer who has been performing professionally since 1982. She was on stage at seven in a children's theatre, sang at amateur festivals as a teenager and in 1974 won the title "Prvi glas Dubrovnika". In 1981 she won an amateur competition in Split and then the final in Sisak, which earned her a place at the 1982 Split festival, where "Nina, nana" brought her the award for best debutante.

Her breakthrough was "Skitnica", written by Rajko Dujmić, which she sang at the Split festival in 1984. The same year she won Zagrebfest with "Povedi me" and released her first album. Vjeruj mi (1985) went platinum with more than 200,000 copies, and in 1986 she won the Karnevalfest in Cavtat with "Ne spominji stare ljubavi". In 1987 "Adio bella" by Zdenko Runjić came fifth at Split and second at the Madeirasong festival, "Mama" was third at MESAM, and Ja sam ti jedini drug went platinum.

In 1988 "Lutajuće srce" was second at Split, the album of that name went gold, and "Ja putujem" won the Karnevalfest. At Jugovizija 1989 she sang "Sve ove godine" and came fifth, in the year Riva won, and the same year she won Zagrebfest with "Kad odu svi", the title song of her next album. She was named best female singer of the year in 1984 and 1988.

Her 1990s albums include Tiho sviraj pjesmu ljubavnu, Nisam ti se tugo nadala (1993), Sunce moga neba (1996) and Žena od mota (1999). At Melodije hrvatskog Jadrana she came second in 1993 with "Sve moje ljubavi žive u tebi", won the award for best interpretation in 1994 with "Teške su riči pale dušo" and was third in 2001 with "Uzeja bi me". Putevima vjetra (2002), Ljubavni parfemi (2006) and Dueti (2010) followed, and she appeared in the TV series "Zauvijek susjedi" (2007) and "Moja 3 zida" (2009).

After ten years away from the studio Jasna Zlokić came back in 2020 with "Potrošilo nas vrime", made with Vjekoslav Dimter, and that year she was named best female singer again and appeared on "Zlatni studio". She has given more than 180 humanitarian concerts. Her songs have been collected many times, from Sve ove godine (1997) and Zlatna kolekcija (2007) to 50 originalnih pjesama (2017) and 25 Greatest Hits (2024). She is married to Boris Zlokić, and they have a son, Igor.