Fresh Talents Music Project
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Fresh Talents Music Project is a new education project based in Rijeka, Croatia. The project is designed to identify and educate young people with musical talent to become good musicians. Mario Šimunović, a famous Croatian musician and song writer, came up with the idea, collecting good music teachers to bring the concept to fruition.
As of this writing, the school has only been open for two years, but early results have been exciting. Musicians who have graduated from the project to start careers in music include Angels, Claudia Beni, Daniel Beni, Sabrina Hebiri, Barbara Munjas, and others. Members of the project participate in numerous concerts and have won a few national music contests.
[edit] Fresh Talents Music Project alumni
Sabrina Hebiri won the Zlatni Mikrofon Radio Rijeke Za Najbolju Interpretaciju (Radio Station Rijeka's Golden Microphone Award for Best Interpretation) at MIK 2005, the Croatian music festival, for the song "Dragi bog zna" (Good God Knows). She also won the 2005 Debitanta Na Festivalu Dalmatinske Šansone (Best Debut at the Croatian Music Festival in Dalmatia) in Šibenik with her song "Kad bi ribe mogle pričati" (If Fish Could Speak). During the Sunčane Skale music festival in Herceg Novi, she performed in a group of 22 singers called Nove Nade (New Hope). She was on the Hrvatskom Radijskom Festivalu 10.09.2005 (Croatian Radio Festival) with her song "Okreni se" (Turn Around). Hebiri also participated in the Hypo Summer Touru 2005 in 17 cities along the coast of Croatia, and in the music festival Zlatne Žice Slavonije 2005 (Golden String of Slavonia) in the Croatian city of Požega, where she sang a duet called "Nisi me trebala varati" (You Shouldn't Cheat Me) with popular Croatian singer Daniel Beni.
Angels is the first Croatian teen girl band, a new and very talented music group. Their style is considered completely new and very fresh on the Croatian music scene. They play their own instruments and sing all the vocals on their singles. Angels have existed as a group for four years, and their popularity continues to grow. Their musical style is energetic pop-rock with a little punk, similar to Yellowcard or The Offspring. Their first single was called "Nikad nećeš shvatiti" (You Will Never Find Out), for which they have made a music video. They toured with Sabrina, Tonny Lee Kingom and the music group Dragonfly as part of the Hypo Summer Touru 2005. Angels recorded a live concert in Club Best, a Croatian disco club in Zagreb, on Hypo Christmas Partyu 2005 (Croatian Christmas music party). They have signed a contract with Croatia Records.
Barbara Munjas is a singer with a strong, beautiful voice. During the Knin Festival 2005 she won Nagradu Za Najboljeg Debitanta (prize for the best music debut) for her song "Gledam u more" (I'm Watching the Sea). She has made a music video for this song, and has also signed a contract with Croatia Records.
Daniel Beni is best known as the frontman of the unusual popular music group called Teens. This group won the Porin prize (the best music prize of the Porin festival) for best new artists in 1999. Two of their albums have gone silver, and they have sold 30,000 records for three Teens albums. After leaving Teens, Daniel Beni has been working on his solo career and has signed a contract with Croatia Records.
In 2006, Angels and Claudia Beni were on HRT Dora, a Croatian music contest and the national pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest.
