Iztok Mlakar

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Iztok Mlakar
Iztok Mlakar in 2012
Background information
Birth name	Iztok Mlakar
Born	(1961-06-21) 21 June 1961 (age 63) Postojna, SR Slovenia, Yugoslavia (Now Slovenia)
Origin	Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Occupation(s)	Theatre actor, singer-songwriter

Iztok Mlakar (born 21 June 1961) is a Slovenian singer-songwriter and theatre actor. Styled as the "bard of the Slovenian Littoral",^[1] he is best known for his ironic chansons in the Littoral dialect of Slovene. Together with Adi Smolar, Mlakar is among the best-known singer-songwriters in Slovenia since 1990.

He was born in Postojna in western Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia), and spent his youth in the town of Nova Gorica on the border with Italy. His parents were from Cerkno, and Mlakar composed several songs in the distinctive Cerkno dialect of his parents' native region.