Neca Falk

Neca Falk, born Marjetka Falk on 19 June 1950 in Maribor, is a Slovenian singer of popular music and a singer-songwriter. She is also remembered by generations of children for her songs about Maček Muri, the cat of Slovenian children's literature.

She started in her teens in the early 1960s, singing in Maribor with the bands Boemi, alongside Edvin Fliser among others, and then Rdeči dečki, until about 1968. In 1969 she first sang in Ljubljana, at the youth festival in Hala Tivoli, and the same year she appeared at Vesela jesen with "Dober dan". In 1971 she won the Zlati klopotec there with "Mi smo mi".

Slovenska popevka became her stage through the 1970s. In 1972 she sang "Prva ljubezen", which won the award for best lyrics and became one of her signature songs. Later entries included "Za topoli" (1976), "Vrtiljak mojih sanj" (1977), "Ta hip" (1978), "Ljubimec moj" (1979), which took the third audience prize, and "Storila bom to" (1980), which won the first audience prize.

Her first album, Danes, came out on Helidon in 1977 under the name Marjetka Falk - Neca. It was followed by Zlata ladja and Vsi ljudje hitijo (both 1978), Najjači ostaju (1980) and Nervozna (1981) on RTV Ljubljana, and in 1984 by Maček Muri in Muca Maca, the record behind "Muri" and "Muca Maca". In 1980 she sang "Luči iz predmestja" in the chanson category at the Opatija festival.

Later albums appeared on her own Mačji disk: Mačji sejem (1991), the greatest hits Portreti (1996), Življenja krog (2000) and V teatru (2001), and Od daleč followed in 2014. Her hits also include "Kako sva si različna", a duet with Alfi Nipič, "Dobro jutro, dober dan", "Banane", "Vsi ljudje hitijo" and "Dravski most". Neca Falk also became a photographer and video artist and, after retiring, took up painting. In 2025 she received the Zlata piščal award for lifetime achievement.