Lidija Bačić

Lidija Bačić, known as Lille, is a Croatian pop singer, model and actress, born on 4 August 1985 in Split. She started singing at ten, and her first public performance came at the 1997 children's festival, where she won both the jury and the audience prizes with Miše Limić's "Zaljubljeni dječak".

She then spent seven years as lead singer of the vocal and dance group Perle. With them she sang "Pokraj bistra izvora" at Dora and "Na kamenu" at Melodije hrvatskog Jadrana in 2001, and in 2002 she returned to Dora with "Nemirna rijeka" and won the Grand Prix of the Split festival with "Riči". She also fronted VIS Rafael, winning Uskrs fest in 2003 with "Znak pobjede" and coming second in 2004 with "Stvoreni za nebo". In 2005 she was runner-up in the second season of Hrvatski idol.

Her solo career began in 2008 with the single "Dan iza vječnosti", made with composer Marko Tomasović, and that year she won the Zagrebfest Grand Prix of both jury and audience with "Kiša". In 2009 she was named best debutante at Melodije Mostara and at MIK, and took the jury's first prize at MEF with "Zarobljeno vrijeme". Her albums are Majčina ljubav (2010), Daj da noćas poludimo (2011), Viski (2015), Tijelo kao pjesma (2017), Revolucija (2020) and Flashback (2022), the last with duets with Ivana Banfić and Žanamari.

Lidija Bačić is best known for "Viski", "Vozačka dozvola", "Kiša" and "Glupačo moja", and for her duets "Solo" with Luka Basi (2017) and "Vino rumeno" with Vigor (2018), a major hit. She has also sung with Mladen Grdović ("Dalmatinac i Dalmatinka", 2012) and with Miroslav Škoro ("Kupila cura mala"). In 2019 she returned to Dora with "Tek je počelo". As an actress she appeared in the film Aleksi (2018) and, as Lille, in the series Ko te šiša and Na granici.