Vjekoslava Huljić
Vjekoslava Huljić (; born on 27 March 1963) is a Croatian lyricist, songwriter, novelist and writer. Born in Duvno and raised in Split, Huljić emerged as a successful lyricist with several hits of the Croatian group Magazin. She is considered to be one of the most productive and successful Croatian writers and lyricists and is most widely known for her collaborations with her husband and musician Tonči Huljić. Her literary work targets both young and old audiences. In the span of her career, Huljić has written more than 600 songs, many of which have become best-selling singles of the respective artists they were written for, primarily Magazin, Jelena Rozga, Doris Dragović, Jole, Minea, Petar Grašo and Danijela Martinović. Her latest works with Lorena, Domenica and Tonči Huljić & Madre Badessa Band, include her writing using loanwords of the Dalmatian language. Biography Huljić was born as Vjekoslava Tolić in 1963 in Duvno to mother Iva Tolić, from Kolo, and father, Branko Tolić, a lawyer, from Imotski. Huljić is the middle one of three sisters. During her childhood, she moved to Split together with her parents. During her childhood, Vjekoslava Huljić followed piano classes for eleven years. Additionally, she used to play festival games with her sisters and perform songs by Italian singer-songwriter Sergio Endrigo in front of her parents. Huljić attended the primary school Bratstvo i jedinstvo in Split. As a very reserved and shy child, her family did not know whether she would adapt to communicating in school. Nevertheless, her teacher Kario Anka recognized her talent for writing and shared her work with the classes she was attending proclaiming "still waters run deep". In her adolescence, Huljić studied law at the University of Split. She only worked for four years in law as a judge trainee before switching to a more literary direction with poem, novel and songwriting. Songwriting career In 1981, Huljić debuted at the annual Zagrebfest with a song titled "Ne brini ništa". She continued her songwriting career with several songs from Magazin albums which was then still emerging as a band. Two of the biggest hits she wrote for the band while Ljiljana Nikolovska was still its lead singer were "Rano ranije", "Balkanska ulica" and "Ljube se dobri, loši, zli". On several of the earlier Magazin songs, she also worked together with Serbian songwriter Marina Tucaković. In 1991, when Nikolovska was leavaing the group, she was succeeded by Danijela Martinović; Huljić wrote several of the biggest hits she sang in the group, which include "Da mi te zaljubit u mene (Starimo dušo)", "Čari" and "Tišina" which were all included on the album Da mi te zaljubit u mene (1991). As the album was being released in the period of the Croatian War of Independence (1991-1995), she wrote the antiwar and peace-promoting song "Mir, mir, mir do neba". When Martinović embarked on a solo career, Huljić also served as one of the main songwriters of her songs "Zovem te ja" (1996) and "Da je slađe zaspati" (1998). She