Who is Atomik Harmonik

Dejan was born in the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana on November 29, 1977.

He started learning accordion as a child in a music school and button box a few years later. His first love has always been folk pop music - although most of his teenage friends were watching MTV.

Dejan and his button box ("frajtonarica" in Slovenian) soon became inseparable and his friends gave him a nick name "Frai Toni."

He also likes fishing, nature and cooking and has everything planned for the future: a small house, a wife, five children, a dog and a cat.

Spela comes from Domzale, town near Ljubljana. She lives with her mom Magda and music and dancing were always playing the biggest role in her life.

She took dancing classes since the age of five at Kazina dance school.
She was singing in a choir on Slovenian national TV at the age of seven.
For two years Spela was a member of a popular teenage music group Foxy Teens.

Spela also loves aerobics and plans to teach aerobics classes in the future.

Her other hobbies are: swimming, rollerblading, shopping and watching funny movies.

This always smiling, energetic gal also comes from Domzale. She started dancing to any kind of lively music and singing to a wooden spoon in her early childhood.

Tejci (common nick name for "Mateja") also took dance classes in dancing school and was singing in a school choir.

Her laughter and good mood are contagious. For her love for children Mateja wants to become a grade school teacher.

Jani describes himself as "hyperactive and addicted to music." All of his favorite childhood memories are music-related. Jani's father was playing a trumpet in the local village band and Jani regularly attended their practices.

At the age of eight he started playing accordion in a music school and formed his first band "Heroji hrupa" (Heroes of the Noise). The Heroes managed to record one single in a studio.

In early 90's Jani started making videos and nowadays he is well known as one of the top commercial video directors in Slovenia.

Another one of his achievements was a successful launch of music group "Ritem Planet" (Rhythm Planet) that made their fans happy with quite a few hits.

Jani's life motto is "seize the day" ("carpe diem" in Latin). He thinks life is way too short to be wasted on bad mood or trivial things.