Margita Stefanović
| Margita Stefanović | |
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| Background information | |
| Born |
1 April 1959 Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Died | 18 September 2002 (aged 43) Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia |
| Genres | Rock, post-punk, new wave |
| Instruments | Keyboards |
| Years active | 1982–2002 |
| Associated acts | Katarina II / Ekatarina Velika |
Margita "Magi" Stefanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Маргита „Маги” Стефановић; 1 April 1959 – 18 September 2002) was a Serbian musician best known as a keyboardist of the cult Serbian rock band Ekatarina Velika.
Born in Belgrade, she was the only child of well-known theatre and television director Slavoljub Stefanović-Ravassi and Desanka Nikolić. After finishing elementary school, Margita enrolled in the "Josip Slavenski" music high school from which she graduated as the most talented pianist in her class alongside Ivo Pogorelić. Her impressive school performance led to an offer of further studies at the famed Moscow Conservatory, which she ended up turning down due to family reasons—her mother very much disliked the idea of letting her go to Moscow by herself at such a young age. Instead, Margita enrolled at the University of Belgrade's School of Architecture where she was no less successful. 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's underground music scene, which struck her as a completely different lifestyle from the one she was used to. During the spring of 1982 she was introduced to Milan Mladenović by her cousin Gagi Mihajlović. Soon thereafter, at one of Katarina II's early rehearsals, she got an offer to join 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.
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