While taking part in a First Music International   Contest in Beijing in 1998, Alexandra Sladjana met Dr. Liu Yingzhou, a Chinese powerful master of traditional medicine and esothery. Dr. Liu channels and balances her mind, body and energy. He comes from a five centuries long family tradition of doctors and is currently transferring his knowledge to his daughter. There are many ancient Chinese secrets that Western Civilization has no knowledge of. Sladjana had taken a great interest in eastern science and culture. Every existing being on this planet is given a mission. She assumes exchanging knowledge and culture could be hers.

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 Alexandra Sladjana owns a carved marble amulet box (that she likes very much) made by Eskimo people from the Polar region of Murmansk (Ex-USSR). She once toured this area and the cities of Arhangelsk, Murmansk. It was during the polar night and the outside temperature was -34^oC. Windows of a hotel room were warped and couldn’t quite close. The heating system in a concert hall was broken and she was cold for days. Regardless she still performed and the audience still attended the show to the last minute.

In Odessa by the Black Sea, the audience sat in an-open air theatre through a two hour long set in a pouring rain. Everybody was soaking wet including the musicians, instruments and a PA system. Luckily no one got electrocuted.

Love for music conquers all.

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 Alexandra Sladjana has two guardian angels. Here on Earth they do have a gender. Female one is called Jasmina and the male - Spira. It is their mission that the three of them prevent their micro-world from collapsing. Living with a purpose makes easier dealing with cosmic loneliness.

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 Alexandra Sladjana and her fellow musicians toured Germany where she was presented an Honorary Silver Medal from a Mayor of Frankfurt am Main, for improving German-Yugoslav friendship.

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 Alexandra Sladjana met Jeff Buckley in a small club in Santa Monica, California, U.S.A. in 1998 where he was playing a club gig with a reggae band. Two of them bonded strongly through creation of music and became eternal friends. He dedicated most of his first album lyrics to her and she wrote a metaphoric song about a father-son, mother-daughter relationship. Jeff's father, legendary Tim Buckley, was a musician and so was Alexandra’s mother. Both of them had similar relationships with their parents.

Jeff and Alexandra separated when Jeff moved to New York. In order for them to be together, Jeff arranged for pre-production and rehearsing of his only album to take place in Los Angeles.

Their favorite peace of music was a Mountain Song by “Jane's Addiction”. Two of them used to drive downtown LA at night screaming their lungs out in a crazed duet.

Jeff's father lived to be 28, so did Jeff. He did not have to follow his father's footsteps.

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 Being a local megastar Alexandra Sladjana once shared the bill with Iron Maiden at the Hippodrome show in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1981. In the late seventies her music inclined towards punk and new wave. Instead of her original music she decided to play AC-DC covers at that show which she thought were more suitable. Show went well anyway. Iron Maiden's drummer Clive Burr took an exhibitionist ride on the hood of Alexandra’s BMW. The police turned their heads away while they drove through the streets of the Capitol.Alexandra, Clive and the other eight passengers in and on the car were granted forgiveness for their lack of civil discipline.

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 It took Alexandra Sladjana many years to release her first single record in her homeland Yugoslavia. She already had a single record out and a million copies album sale with her band in a former USSR. Restrictive media and audiences in Yugoslavia were not receptive of her unusual and provocative lyrical and musical style. She became a subject of many media polemics since she brought influences of Western culture that were not welcomed by the ruling regime. It took many years before her first single was released. It hit high on the charts and slowly climbed to number one position. That very spot was reserved for every single she released everafter.

She still supports progressive views and therefore collides with the local establishment. Her latest video clip “Legalize Freedom” was banned from all TV stations. It, of course, promotes freedom of choice...

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 In Podgorica, Montenegro (former Titograd) they had to bring in the Police Calvary to keep order on one of Sladjana's shows in 1979. Tens of thousands of fans filled the stadium eager to see her. Somehow a large number of them surrounded the isolated building with the dressing room area. The crowd was pushing onto the glass walls that covered one side of the building, screaming for Sladjana. 45 minutes later Police Calvary finally showed up. They made a cordon through the masses so Sladjana could pass through and get to the stage.

The other time in Banja Luka, Bosnia, masses quickly surrounded her car, lifted it up in the air, and carried it for awhile, leaving Sladjana and her driver helplessly floating in their arms.

Another time while performing at the Army Recruit Center in Bosnia, soldiers surrounded the bus she was in and started pushing it from one side to another. They rocked it so hard that it almost fell sideways pressing its weight onto the soldiers.

People's love for Sladjana was sometimes dangerous.

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 Sladjana had a New Year's TV show on Hungarian National TV in 1978/79. After the shooting was completed she received her fee in Hungarian forints. In those, behind the Iron Curtain days, local money could not be taken out of the Warsaw Union member countries. So, she had to spend it under TV producer's supervision. She decided to get a full-length rabbit fur-coat because there was nothing more expensive to buy. However, that was only one-third of the money received. She left the rest behind in a care of a staff member, TV accountant. She didn’t go back to get it yet.

If she ever gets cold she can go back and get a new coat... Maybe fake fur would do this time…

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 Several musicians from France (Jean Michelle Jarre), Great Britain (Midge Ure of “Ultravox”) and Germany (Nina Hagen) came up with the idea to contribute in the unification of Europe. Midge Ure composed a U.S.E. (United States of Europe) song, which Alan Darby (ex "Cockney Rebel") was asked to sing on behalf of Great Britain. In those times (1984), Alan collaborated with Sladjana so he invited her to Paris studio, where the recording took place, to do a vocal production. It was a beginning of a European Union. Politicians had followed musicians uniting efforts much later: Musicians should definitely run the world.

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 Alexandra Sladjana did not know where exactly she was going when her friends took her to a Trent Resnor's (“Nine Inch Nails”) party. It was up on one of Bel Air's canyons in Los Angeles, California (Alexandra lives in LA for the last 12 years). Trent showed Sladjana the interior of the house. The studio where the band recorded took most of its space. It seemed that it wasn't one of those prestigious, large, show-off mansions, typical for Hollywood industry sex-crazed lunatics. Trent pointed at one of the walls and said that that was where the writing stood.

 Alexandra later learned what he was referring to. It was Charles Manson, whose letters in blood "decorated" those walls. The house belonged to Roman Polanski's ex-wife actress Sharon Tate and we all know what happened That Night. Trent, being a good host, took Sladjana out to the garden where they sat on a bench exchanging thoughts while looking of the edge of a hundred-yard steep cliff.

Various places could be inspiring for various people. Sometimes energy, materialized thoughts and feelings of those who once owned them transcend and deliver the messages to us. Or is it, our personal memory banks that can be triggered by corresponding thoughts?

To avoid contamination, Alexandra consults her baby-self that she loves so much.

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