This year's 51st Pivo in Cvetje, which will take place in Laško from July 16 to 19, will bring two big world music names to the Golden Horn stage - Australian singer and actress Natalie Imbruglia and the legendary Swedish band Europe. Natalie Imbruglia will perform on Thursday, July 16, and Europe on Friday, July 17.
Australian singer and actress Natalie Imbruglia began her career as an actress in the early 1990s starring in the Australian television series Neighbors, and achieved major success in popular music with her debut album Left of the Middle in 1997 and the smash hit Thorn, a cover of the original by American alter rockers Ednaswap. Even in the previous decade, while simultaneously pursuing a singing career and the following two albums, she also kept acting in films Johnny English and Closed for Winter. She is ranked among the ten most beautiful women in the world, collaborates with many fashion and cosmetic houses, and also plays in theaters.
Natalie returns to the music scene after six years with Male's fifth studio album. For the new album, which will be released just in time for this year's Beer and Flowers, she chose compositions by musicians such as Damien Rice, Cat Stevens, Pete Townsend, the Cure and many others; the first hit, with which she announced the album already in March this year, is Instant Crush, a cover of the 2013 club hit from French duo Daft Punk's repertoire with guest Julian Casablancas. The European part of the world concert tour will begin with a performance in Laško.
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Europe is a legendary Swedish band that has its roots in the distant seventies. After a break of several years, the group with two members from the original line-up is still extremely active today, as their current album War of Kings was well received by both listeners and critics.
The Swedish group, which we remember in our country for their hits The Final Countdown, Carrie and Out of This World, after starting her career at the end of the 1970s, she died in 1992, but after a short break in 1999, she finally got up the courage to start a second career in 2003. Since then, she has recorded five albums, the latest of which is, of course, the current one War of Kings, which is a hit Days of Rocknroll released in March this year. From the first line-up, of course, the singer Joey Tempest (1979-1992, 1999, 2003-) and the guitarist John Norum (1979-1986, 1999, 2003-) are at the head of the band, three other members have also been in different bands, the bassist John Levén (1981, 1981–1992, 1999, 2003– ), keyboardist Mic Michaeli (1984–1992, 1999, 2003– ), and drummer Ian Haugland (1984–1992, 1999, 2003– ). Europe established itself as a successful heavy metal band in all parts of its career, following in the footsteps of groups such as Whitesnake, Deep Purple or Bon Jovi. With the album War of Kings, which critics rank as one of the best albums of this musical genre, they successfully roam the world stages.
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