Stijene

Stijene is a Croatian pop rock band from Klis near Split, founded by the keyboard player and composer Marin Mišo Limić. Limić was born in Klis on 8 August 1948 and studied music at the pedagogical academy in Split. He has written most of the band's songs, words and music, and he is the only member who has stayed through every line-up. The band is best known for its succession of female singers: Zorica Kondža, Vesna Ivić, Maja Blagdan, Zrinka Čuka, Ines Žižić and Izabela Martinović.

The first and most successful of them was Zorica Kondža, born in Split in 1960. With her Stijene sang "Sve je neobično ako te volim" at the Zagreb festival in 1980. At the Split festival in 1981 they sang "Ja sam more, ti si rijeka", which did not do well in the contest but became a hit across the country, and in 1982 they won the Split festival with "Ima jedan svijet", which became their signature song. Their first two albums, "Cementna prašina" (1981) and "Jedanaest i petnaest" (1982), both earned silver records.

With Vesna Ivić singing, "Balkanska korida" (1984) also went silver, its title song written by Limić. According to the Croatian composers' society, the band kept performing and winning at festivals through the 1980s and stopped entering them at the end of the decade.

In the 1990s Ines Žižić sang on "Da je bolje ne bi valjalo" (1993), and the compilation "15 godina i 6 žena Marina Limića" (1995) looked back at the line-ups. "Obećanje" (1998) brought in Izabela Martinović, who is still the band's singer beside Limić. The collections "Zlatna kolekcija" (2009) and "Greatest Hits Collection" (2019) gathered their best-known songs, among them "Još te volim kao nekada", "Znaj, volim te (Ti, što na rivi stojiš sam)", "Sada kada odlaziš" and "Singing that r'n'r". Limić, who lives in Solin, also runs a non-profit recording studio for young talent and works in sculpture, fresco and mosaic.