Mika Ella’s music career started in 1999 when she published her first single as the lead singer and co-writer of a dance music project called Matrix. Matrix released three albums and fifteen singles in Croatia, most of which topped the local charts and won festival awards. Seven singles reached No.1 of Croatian national chart. She also had two singles released in Poland by Warner Music.
With her first band she toured most of Croatia and Slovenia, but also Serbia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland...
However, she always felt she should sing in English and share her talent and love for music and words with the whole world. “Sometimes life takes you away from your dreams and you just need to survive through the hard times. When the right moment comes, life brings you back home. In my case, home is music”, she says.