Margita “Magi” Stefanović

In memoriam

Margita "Magi" Stefanović was Yugoslav and Serbian musician best known as a keyboardist of a Serbian rock band Ekatarina Velika.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 distinction led to an offer of further studies at famous Moscow Conservatory, which she turned down due to family reasons and instead enrolled at University of Belgrade's Faculty of Architecture where she was no less successful. All throughout her architecture studies, she still continued practising the piano as well as playing and occasionally touring with various small orchestras.fter graduating university, 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. Several months later after returning from the trip to South America she decided to take the still-standing offer, joining Katarina II in late 1982. Margita was EKV's member until it's 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 EKV's end, Magi continued her work as a musician. Margita Stefanović spent last years of her life living in Belgrade Homeless Shelter at Voždovac. She was diagnosed to be HIV positive. She died on September 18, 2002 (aged 43) at the Belgrade Hospital for Infective Diseases. Wikipedia

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