13 Facts About Iztok Mlakar

Iztok Mlakar was born on 21 June 1961 and is a Slovenian singer-songwriter and theatre actor.

Together with Adi Smolar, Mlakar is among the best-known singer-songwriters in Slovenia since 1990.

Iztok Mlakar was born in Postojna in western Slovenia, and spent his youth in the town of Nova Gorica on the border with Italy.

Iztok Mlakar's parents were from Cerkno, and Mlakar composed several songs in the distinctive Cerkno dialect of his parents' native region.

Iztok Mlakar pursued a career as an actor in the Slovenian National Theatre of Nova Gorica, where he currently works.

Iztok Mlakar has written many songs for plays, but he is best known as the composer and singer of his own chanson-style songs.

Iztok Mlakar is best known to the Slovenian public as a singer of songs composed in his local Slovene dialect.

Iztok Mlakar's songs are frequently witty and unusual reflections on eternal subjects such as love, passing and death, and about the joys of life, particularly wine and good food.

The language of most of Iztok Mlakar's songs is based on the distinctive dialects of these areas, which have been strongly influenced by Italian and Friulian, especially in vocabulary and syntax.

The vocabulary of most of Iztok Mlakar's songs is frequently difficult to understand for speakers from other Slovenian regions.

The characters of Iztok Mlakar's songs cope with these circumstances in different ways: they either stubbornly defy them, frequently becoming silly and pathetic in the process, accept them with a sense of poetic fatalism, or opportunistically try to accommodate to them.

Iztok Mlakar has never performed at a big concert or public event, preferring small and selected audiences.

Iztok Mlakar's public performances are rare, and usually there is a very high interest in them, making it hard to get tickets.