Lollobrigida Girls

VIS Lollobrigida
Lollobrigida performs at Weekend Media Festival 2009., Rovinj, Croatia
Background information
Also known as	Lollobrigida Girls, Lollobrigida
Origin	Zagreb, Croatia
Genres	Electropop, synthpop, dance-punk, electropunk
Years active	2003 – present
Labels	Menart Records/DOP Records
Members	Ida, Petra, Kleemar, Ivan, Jernej, Marko
Past members	Natalija, Anise, Zoki, Lora, Ivana, Sanja, Shinec, David

Lollobrigida girls, also known as VIS Lollobrigida (VIS is a Croatian language acronym for 'band', used often in the 1970s) or Lollobrigida is originally a Croatian, Zagreb–based, female electro-pop/synthpop band. In 2008. The Slovenes Kleemar, David, and Jernej joined the band rendering the group Croatian-Slovenian in its composition.

As a duo, Lollobrigida performed for the first time at a bigger public concert in June 2003 in the student club KSET, as an opening band for German trash-style musician Mambo Kurt, attracting immediately a pronounced interest within Zagreb's underground-music audience.

In the original lineup there were Ida Prester and Natalija Dimicevski singing and playing bass-guitar on top of their computer-generated music matrix. In February 2004 the duo performed as a sole band at the crowded concert in Zagreb's Studentski centar; after that they signed a contract with the Slovenian label Menart Records/DOP Records.

In June 2004 Lollobrigida performed at the third Zagreb Pride.

Lollobrigida's first single, "Party", was released in September 2004 soon becoming a pretty well-accepted hit, rendering the underground phenomenon into a name known to many, first in Croatia and latter on in the neighboring countries. Sizeable covering in Croatian media, involving print, radio, and television, release of an anti-holiday single "Unhappy Christmas", and a performance at the big rock-concert Fiju Briju in Zagreb all enabled Lollobrigida to keep a high level of interest in the audience till the release of their debut album Cartoon Explosion, in May 2005. The girls have promoted the album in the club KSET again. The introductory band at the latter concert was a hip-hop duo Bitcharke na travi from Serbia, Beograd.