Lada Obradovic
Lada Obradovic is a Croatian jazz drummer, composer and actress known for The Eddy. After finishing bachelor drums performance program at Academy of Graz, Austria, she earned a masters degree of performance jazz drums at University of Bern in Switzerland. Besides French piano player David Tixier she is a co-leader of "Obradovic-Tixier Duo", multi awarded duo project born in 2016 (1st price Jazz À Vienne 2018, 1st price Jazz Au Phare 2018, 1st price Colmar Jazz Festival 2018, 1st price La Défense Jazz Festival 2019). In 2019 she got unanimously the price of the "best instrumentalist" during the "42nd National Contest of La Défense Jazz Festival". She is involved in charity work, and in 2018 she started a new charity project using her own designed shoes "StartAs You Are". Lada is a "Bay Custom Drums" and "TRX Cymbals" artist. She designed the first Jazz Series of TRX cymbals called CLS.