Adalita Srsen
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Adalita Srsen |
| Born | 25 February 1971 |
| Origin | Geelong, Victoria, Australia |
| Genres | Rock |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter, singer, guitarist |
| Instruments | Singing, guitar |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Associated acts | Deer Bubbles Magic Dirt |
| Website |
http://www.magicdirt.com http://www.adalita.com |
| Notable instruments | |
| Red Gibson SG guitar Roland Jazz Chorus 120 Amplifier |
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Adalita Srsen (pronounced "Sers-n") is an Australian rock musician who is a founding member of the rock band Magic Dirt and a solo artist. She released her second solo album, All Day Venus, in September 2013. She is known by the mononym Adalita.
Adalita was born in Geelong, Australia on 25 February 1971. She told Rolling Stone magazine in 2003 that her father, a Croatian cabaret performer, named her after a Spanish song.
She told Triple J's Richard Kingsmill in 2000 that she made her first guitar out of cardboard and wool, before her mother bought her her first acoustic guitar. "After persuading my mum to buy me a guitar, I learnt a few chord progressions from a music book and then started writing and recording very strange songs, using two tape decks and layering guitar parts and vocal harmonies."
Adalita told Australian Guitar magazine (when she became the first female to grace the magazine's cover) in 2005 that she "was 18 or 19 when I bought my first my AU$90 acoustic (guitar) for whatever strange reason I bought it for, on a whim. Then I got an electric maybe six months later and started on that - what was that - in like 1989, 1990."
In the early 1990s, Srsen formed "Deer Bubbles" with then-partner Dean Turner. The band didn't last long and by 1992, the pair, along with guitarist Daniel Herring, started a new band, briefly known as "The Jim Jims". Srsen and Turner then formed Magic Dirt following the addition of drummer Adam Robertson.
In 2006, Adalita released her first material as a solo performer. She performed on two cover versions for the Mick Harvey-produced soundtrack of the Australian film Suburban Mayhem: "Double Dare" (originally by Hoyt Axton) and "Sex Beat" (Gun Club). Along with Harvey, Dean Turner and Rowland S. Howard play on the tracks. A promotional video was made for the single "Double Dare", featuring Adalita and Suburban Mayhem star Emily Barclay. At the time, such solo work were side projects and Srsen soon resumed work with Magic Dirt.
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