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About the Artist
Aleksandra Prelević Palladino, known professionally as Dolce Hera, is a Montenegrin music author, composer, songwriter, drummer and performer, living in Rome, Italy. Hera was born in 1991 in Podgorica, Montenegro, and she began performing as a teenager as she was the founder and drummer of the Montenegrin punk rock band Shin-Ei.
She has a wide range of music experience that consists of both recording studio background and significant live performance participation as she performed in numerous concerts and festivals.
Hera studied piano lessons for 8 years at the Art School for Music and Ballet “Vasa Pavić” in Podgorica. After graduating from the Primary Music School, she took lessons from one of the most prominent Montenegrin jazz drummers – Momčilo Momica Glomazić.
Hera also performed with one of the most famous drummers in the Balkans, a well-known Montenegrin and Yugoslav drummer Dragoljub Đuričić at the National Theater of Montenegro, at the invitation of Đuričić himself, who appreciated her work as an eminent drummer of the Montenegrin music scene.
In 2013 at the photo exhibition entitled “Drummers of Montenegro” (Crnogorski bubnjari), organized by the NGO Montenegrin Blues (July 9-17), Hera was represented as the first female professional drummer in Montenegro.
She is a PhD Candidate within the field of Theory and Philosophy of Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Belgrade. Hera graduated from two universities, namely the Faculty of Law of the University of Montenegro and the Faculty of Foreign Languages (Business English) of the Mediterranean University in Podgorica, where she studied Italian as a second foreign language.
