Her professional career as a singer started in 1997, when she won "Most promising singer award" at the Portoroz festival. Her appearance was encouraged by known local composer Danilo Kocjancic, which together with lyrics writer Drago Mislej – Mef and Marino Legovic wrote the winning song and later the whole material for her first album，
In 2004, at the time of her fourth concert in Ljubljana's Cankarjev dom hall, she invited Ian Anderson (singer of the group Jethro Tull, which greatly contributed to her decision to start playing flute[3]). At Anderson's reverse invitation she participated as a guest during the band's tour in Croatia,[4] Italy, Austria and Germany. Later she sang also with Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin.