Vanna

Vanna, born Ivana Ranilović in Koprivnica on 1 September 1970 and now Ivana Vrdoljak, is a Croatian pop singer. She became famous in the 1990s as the singer of the Zagreb dance group Electro Team, went on to a long solo career and represented Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2001, where she finished tenth.

As a child she won prizes at children's and youth festivals, and in Koprivnica she finished secondary school and music school. Her debut came at the 1990 Zagrebfest, the year she moved to Zagreb to study, and she sang backing vocals with Boa. After a duo with the producer Ilan Kabiljo she joined Electro Team in the spring of 1991 under the name Vanna.

With her the band became stars. "Tek je 12 sati", released in July 1993, was later named the Croatian hit of the decade by journalists and critics, and Electro Team was the first Croatian band to appear on MTV. Second to None (1994) turned to eurodance and gave eight hit singles, "Da ti nisam bila dovoljna" won the Porin for single of the year, and Anno Domini (1996), with "Ja ti priznajem", sold more than 60,000 copies. Vanna co-wrote the band's songs.

Her first solo album, I to sam ja (1997), brought her versions of country, blues and jazz standards. Ispod istog neba (1998) won two Porins, for best female vocal and for the duet "Ja ću budna sanjati" with Gibonni. She won Zadarfest three years running, from 1999 to 2001, and 24 sata (2000) went gold. After second place at Dora 2000 she won Dora 2001 with "Strune ljubavi" by Tonči and Vjekoslava Huljić, and in Copenhagen on 12 May 2001 she sang it in Croatian and English as "Strings of My Heart" and came tenth.

The live album Vanna u Lisinskom followed in 2001, then Hrabra kao prije (2003), Ledeno doba (2007) and Sjaj (2010). In 2012 she guested on "Za tvoje oči" by the Serbian band Neverne Bebe. Izmiješane boje (2019) won the Porin for pop album of the year, and Dan po dan came out in 2024. Since 2020 she has been a coach on The Voice Hrvatska, and since 2024 on The Voice Kids Hrvatska. The playlist gathers her official videos, from "Sjaj" and "Puna memorija" to duets with Zsa Zsa and Sergej and her newest songs.