- 14 Jul 2011, 18:31
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Originally posted by spliffJos ovo da citiram.Necu vise.
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Born in Belgrade as the only child of a well-known theatre and television director Slavoljub Stefanović-Ravassi and Desanka Nikolić, in addition to compulsory education, Margita also completed Josip Slavenski music high school as the most talented pianist in her class that also included Ivo Pogorelić. Her impressive school performance led to an offer of further studies at famed Moscow Conservatory, which she ended up turning down due to family reasons as her mother very much disliked the idea of letting her go to Moscow by herself at such a young age. Instead, Margita enrolled at University of Belgrade's Faculty of Architecture where she was no less successful. All throughout her architecture studies, she still continued practicing the piano as well as playing and occasionally touring with various small orchestras.
After graduating university in 1982, along with her then-boyfriend Srđan Vejvoda, she began to take an interest in Belgrade underground music scene, which impressed her as the completely different lifestyle from the one she was used to. By summer 1982 she got introduced to Milan Mladenović by her cousin Gagi Mihajlović, and soon, at one of Katarina II's early rehearsals, got an offer to enter the band. After returning from a three-month trip to South America she decided to take the still-standing offer, joining Katarina II in late 1982.
Margita was Katarina II/Ekatarina Velika's member until its very end in late 1994. During her time with the band she also collaborated on albums of many other Yugoslav bands such as Karlowy Vary, Elvis J. Kurtović & His Meteors, Van Gogh, Babe, etc.
She composed the score for several TV films ("Prvi put s ocem na jutrenje", "Vera Hofmanova", "Povratak Vuka Alimpića", "Plavi plavi") and theatre plays ("Klasni neprijatelj", "Tri sestre"). In 1985 she was introduced as an actress (the role of Dragana) in the movie "Tajvanska kanasta" (The Taiwan Canasta) directed by Goran Marković.
After Milan's death and Ekatarina Velika's end, Magi continued her work as a musician. During 1994/1995 she played in a band called Kurajberi, which gathered several Belgrade musicians and was focused mainly on performing covers at club gigs and jam sessions. In 1995, with a group of young Belgrade musicians involved in a techno movement, she formed a band called EQV and released an album Ti si sav moj bol (You are All of My Anguish) named after the famous Ekatarina Velika song, the album itself containing a techno version of the same song. The album was published for Austrian label Coop Arts & Crafts Unlimited. In October the same year, EQV participated in Tactic Festival in Vienna. She further continued contributing as a guest star on albums and concerts of many Serbian bands and occasionally played with bands Glisers, Zion banda and Direktori. In 1996 she played several unplugged concerts with Električni orgazam, one of which was recorded and released the same year by B92 as Živo i akustično (Live and Acoustic). During that time she was also involved in several significant music projects ("S one strane duge", "Pesme iznad Istoka i Zapada").
Sometime in 1996 Margita became a member of Ars Antibari writers society from Bar, which published several of her stories in two books ("Izgleda da će Jugo", Bar, 1996, and "Da li da ti kažem tko te je ubio, Gea?", Belgrade, 1999). In 2002 she composed the music for "Kaput mrtvog čoveka" (The Coat of a Dead Man) theater play directed by Hajdana Baletić, which turned out to be Magi's last ever music-related work.
However, from 1996 onwards her life was mostly spent struggling with heroin addiction and the physical effects of long-time drug use. Following the passing of her father in February 1996, Margita's drug intake intensified. In order to support her habit, she sold pretty much all of her possessions including an apartment in downtown Belgrade. She used part of the money for a trip to India and also to buy two smaller apartments. Not too long afterward, she sold those as well and eventually ended up living in a ramshackle modified garage in the suburb of Borča. By this time she was basically penniless, depending on charity and handouts for even the most basic things such as food.[1]
Margita Stefanović spent last years of her life living in Homeless Shelter at Voždovac. She was diagnosed to be HIV positive, which she contracted through intravenous drug use. She died on September 18, 2002 (aged 43) at the Belgrade Hospital for Infective Diseases where she had been sequestered since August 2002.
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