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Robert Mareković

Robert Mareković is a Croatian swing and rock singer. He grew up in Novi Zagreb. he was drawn to music from the 1950s and 1960s. He formed his first band the Rockin’ Kids in 1987. In 1988 he co-founded the Voodoo Cats which became Fantomi in 1989. Whilst working in Fantomi he worked as a DJ on legendary Blue Moon nights in Kulušić. Fantomi broke through and had national hits in 1990 with a 50 inspired sound and look. The Croatian Homeland War slowed the band down but they subsequently went on to release more albums before Robert left the band in 1994. Robert was out of Fantomi for one album in the 90s, but he personally supervised few compilations in 2000s, and he considered himself as part of band. In 1995 he worked as a radio host on Radio Sljeme. Between 1995-1997 he released four independent singles. In 1997 he appeared at the first Croatian Radio Festival and that year he reformed Fantomi with new members in order to make the album Iza zatvorenih vrata In 1999 he founded the band Swingers to play swing (and 5os, early 60s rock and pop) In 2005 he gathered the band Fantomi for a short while, so as to give two performances and record a single after 11 years, which was called Stari saxofon and appeared on the compilation album – Fantomi – Zlatna kolekcija (Golden collection) Mareković continues to work on Croatian radio. Swingers continue to play and release material and often collaborate with other like minded artists from Croatia and from around Europe.