Karmen Stavec

Karmen Stavec is a Slovenian pop singer, born on 21 December 1973 in West Berlin to Slovene parents. After finishing school in Germany she moved to Domžale, started out as a dancer in the duo 4 fun and studied German at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, before beginning her solo career in 1998. Her Slovene parents and her Slovenian career are why she is on Muzika-Balkan under Slovenia, and according to the Slovenian press she later left Domžale for Ljubljana, where she bought a flat.

That year she sang "Kje pesem je doma" with Patrik Greblo at EMA, the Slovenian Eurovision selection, finishing seventh, and at Slovenska popevka his song "Na prepihu neba" won her the expert jury's award for the best debutant. In 1999 "Ljubim te" placed third at Slovenska popevka and won the award for the best performance, and her first album, Ljubim te, came out with "Vzemi mojo dlan" and the title song.

Working mostly with the composer Martin Štibernik, for whom she also wrote lyrics, she returned to EMA with her own words: "Ostani tu" placed third in 2001, the year of the album of the same name, with "Srca ti več ne dam" and "Ena solzica", and with "Še in še" in 2002 she was runner-up to the trio Sestre, even though she had the most televotes. In 2003 she won EMA with "Lep poletni dan". At the Eurovision Song Contest that year she sang it in English as "Nanana" and finished 23rd of 26. Her third album, Karmen (2003), gathered these songs with "V redu je", "Ena in edina", from the 2002 Hit festival, and "Ljubezen je".

After the 2004 Hit festival, where she sang "Ne pomeni ne", she took a three-year break. The song "Povej" (2007) marked her return, followed by "Nekaj med nama" (2008), "A si želiš" at EMA 2009, "Odgovor je v tebi" at Slovenska popevka 2010 and "Praviš, da veš" (2010). According to the Slovenian Wikipedia, Karmen Stavec now works in jewellery sales.