Severina's style is a pop dance with various folk and cabaret elements.
Her career has started as she took smaller parts in theater and opera productions.
1980s, were the time when Severina has won numerous awards at local festivals.
This was a jump-start of her professional career. Severina is moving to Zagreb in 1989 to expand
her career further. Same year, she recorded the first studio album titled Severina.
Chart-topping hits:
Dalmatinka (1993)
Paloma nera (1993)
Trava zelena (1995)
Od rodendana do rodendana (1996),
Djevojka sa sela (1998)
Prijateljice (1998)
Ja samo pjevam (1999)
Ante (1999)
2001 album Pogled ispod obrva was a huge success. After a couple years' break, she released
her 8th studio album Severgreen in 2004. In 2006, she won the Dora 2006 festival with the
song Moja stikla and represented Croatia at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest.
The song caused controversy in Croatia, as many journalists, musicologists as well
as ordinary people claimed it resembled Serbian music.
Severina's long-anticipated 10th studio album Zdravo Marijo (Hail Mary), mostly composed by
Goran Bregovic, was released in May 2008.
As for her film career, Severina played one of the main roles in Duhovi Sarajeva. One year later, she made a 5-minute
appearance in the Slovenian film Petelinji zajtrk, one of the most successful movies in history of Slovenia.
A sex scandal reported worldwide after a personal
sex tape featuring her and Herzegovinian Croat businessman Milan Lucic leaked
on the internet in 2004. The very sexually graphic nature of the video shocked the Croatian and other ex-Yugoslav nations among which Severina is widely popular.
This incident severely damaged her public image, while ironically, she promoted
abstinence in many of her public appearances and was known as devout Catholic.
Severina attempted to sue the website that released the tape by the District Court of Zagreb.
Eventually, the incident apparently boosted Severina's career. This career boost is similar to what other celebrity
sex tape stars (such as Paris Hilton) have experienced.
