Slavko Ivančić

Slavko Ivančić is a singer, pianist and music teacher, born on 28 November 1954 in Crikvenica, Croatia, who has lived and worked in Piran, Slovenia, since 1980. He sings pop and rock and is known from his years in Faraoni and for his own Slovenian hits.

He started out in Crikvenica in 1973. In 1974, at twenty, he released a single with Grupa Vivak, "Listopad" and "Balada o novome", as the composer, and he was a co-founder of the klapa Crikvenica and a member of the group Liburni. After graduating from the music academy in Rijeka he moved to Piran in 1980 and joined Faraoni for two years. He then played piano in the band of the Zagreb singer Danijel Popović, who represented Yugoslavia at Eurovision 1983 with "Džuli", and toured the Soviet Union and Europe with the Zagreb group Caravan.

In 1984 Danilo Kocjančič invited him into the group Bazar, with which he made one LP. Kocjančič was his first Slovenian mentor, and "Tina", the first song he sang in Slovenian, became a big hit. At Melodije morja in sonca 1986 his duet with Rosana Brajko, "Vječnost jedne ljubavi", won four awards, and with Casino Band, with whom he spent years abroad, he sang there again in 1988 and 1989, when "Poljubi me još jedan put" won two awards.

In 1994 he rejoined Faraoni and stayed until 2000, recording Stari časi, Sem takšen, ker sem živ, a live album and Kar tako with them, before going solo. At Melodije morja in sonca 2000 "Črta" won the audience vote and the award for the best lyrics, and in 2003 "Ko mene več ne bo", sung with Lavanda, won three jury awards. At Slovenska popevka, "Nisem jaz" brought him the jury's award for the best performer in 2001, and "Danes je dan" was third in 2011. His solo albums are Črta (2000), Moja ljubezen (2003), Preberi me... (2008) and Med valovi in oblaki (2018).

Since 2011 he has been the artistic director of Melodije morja in sonca. He led the klapa Solinar, with whom he released the album Solinar in 2014, and he gives a concert in the Avditorij Portorož most summers. On 18 October 2024 he marked his 70th birthday and 50 years in music with a full Cankarjev dom and the greatest-hits album 70 + 50, and that year the municipality of Piran gave him its Golden Coat of Arms.