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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Adi Smolar
Person · male · Slovenia · Slovenj Gradec · born 1959
Slovenian musician
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1950s
Biography
English biography143 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1376987239
Biography
Adi Smolar (born 25 March 1959 in Slovenj Gradec, SR Slovenia, Yugoslavia) is a Slovenian singer-songwriter and composer.
In his youth, he played the accordion and clarinet and was a member in several choirs. At the age of eighteen, he decided to start playing the guitar, the instrument for which he is most known today.
In 1981, he made his first appearance with a full repertoire of original songs. He continued to perform for eight years, before releasing his first album Naš svet se pa vrti, '(Our World Keeps Spinning)' in 1989.
He has also authored seven children's books which were published between 1996 and 2014.
Smolar received the Ježek Award in 2008.
In 2024, Smolar performed at the charity concert for Gaza hosted at the Kino Šiška in Ljubljana on 16 May. Funds were raised for the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 5 | 32th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 2 | 92.6th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Adi Smolar head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 5 | 32th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 2 | 92.6th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Ježek Award | won | |
| — | Viktor | won |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adi_Smolar_2013-03-30_3.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4682622genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4682622seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Smolarbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Smolar
Why this artist is in the database
- List of composers by name
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Slovely.eu · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q4682622 · MusicBrainz: 4bebf6da-7736-4d45-8e79-93c85e31cca1
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