Ten years ago today, Margita Stefanović Magi, a musician best known as the keyboardist of the legendary Belgrade rock band Ekatarina Velika (EKV), died.
Margita Stefanović was born as a unit in the family of Belgrade theater and TV director Slavoljub Stefanović-Ravasi. She graduated in architecture, but was also a trained musician. He finished high school music in the class with Ivo Pogorelić, with whom he took private lessons with the Russian professor Timikin.
As an absolute listener, along with Pogorelić, the most talented in the class receives an offer to continue her education at the Moscow Conservatory. He refused the offer and enrolled in architecture in Belgrade, which he successfully completed in 1982.
As a student, he won the third prize at an international competition in Japan for his work on the design of the Montenegrin village of Reževići. At the same time, he is considered one of the most talented classical pianists.
The turning point in her musical orientation is represented by attending the concert of Milan Mladenović's newly formed band Katarina II in the theater of the Belgrade cinema "Topčiderska zvezda". On May 1982, XNUMX, he met the members of the Electric Orgasm group, and through socializing with them, Milan Mladenović.
Mladenović, fascinated by her talent and willingness to explore, invites her to join the group, and buys a synthesizer on which Magi practices. After returning from a three-month trip to South America, Margita Stefanović became a permanent member of the team.
In 1985, Catherine II changed her name to Catherine the Great and operated until 1994.
During that period, Margita Stefanović composed music for the theater (plays "Class Enemy", "Three Sisters", "On the other side of the rainbow" and "Mother Courage") and television (drama "Blue, Blue"), worked as a producer (" Karlovy Vary") and is a guest on the albums of many Yugoslav groups (Baby Kate, Elvis J. Kurtović, Van Gogh, Babe).
An "urban legend" about the first Belgrade graffiti is related to Magi (if you don't count the graffiti on Slavia "Provereno - min njet" from October 1944). Namely, Nebojša Krstić - a former member of the group VIS Idoli - wrote "Margita is a boy" on her house in Slavija. Many years later the graffiti faded and someone wrote over it "The window must fall".
In 1985, she appeared in Goran Marković's film "Taiwanska Kanasta" in the role of the main character's sister. EKV also appears in the film, performing the song "Tatu".
After the breakup of EKV, he continues to play music. At the end of 1994, together with several musicians from Belgrade, he founded the band Kurajberi, which mainly performs covers of foreign and domestic hits in Belgrade clubs.
In 1995, he founded the band EQV with musician Vladimir Stojić and released the CD "Ti si sav moj bol" (named after EKV's song) for the Viennese music house "Coop Arts & Crafts Unlimited".
The CD also includes a techno cover of the song of the same name. In that period, he continues to be a guest on albums and concerts of Yugoslav bands and occasionally plays with the bands Glisersi, Zion Banda and Direktori.
At the end of the 90s, her musical activity weakened. In 2002, she composed the music for the performance of the Belgrade director Hajdana Baletić "Dead Man's Coat", which was her last musical work.
Margita Stefanović spent the last years of her life in the Belgrade Homeless Center, and she died on September 18, 2002, at the Belgrade Infectious Diseases Clinic.
The cause of death has not been officially announced, but it is assumed that she died as a result of long-term drug use.
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