Nana resides in Chicago and hails from Croatia, by way of Serbia, Hungary, and Czech Republic. She was first a poet and a writer, and she’s been writing songs since 1998. She has performed and recorded both solo and as a member of Patti’s Breakfast (Belgrade), Good Apples (Chicago), and The Adaptations (Chicago), oscillating between indie folk and loud rock. Although she’s been living in the United States since 2002, her style bears an imprint of her Balkan roots. In the Balkans, contemporary music blends American jazz and rock and Western European cabaret influences with the traditional melodies and rhythms of the Mediterranean, that in-between region that’s equally European, African, and Asian. Nana is a singer-songwriter who sublimates diverse musical influences, and churns out tunes that sound both familiar and unique, performed in an understated, quietly powerful way.
