Split, a town in the region of Dalmatia, Croatia. Rozga has one older sister named Julija. Rozga was a hyperactive and energetic child who often danced and performed in her house. She insisted on becoming a ballet dancer and her parents sent her to ballet classes during the first grade of primary school when she was seven years old. She joined KUD Mozaik where she was under the guidance of Lepa Smoje, a famous Croatian choreographer. As a ballet dancer, she participated in various Yugoslav competitions. At the age of 13, Rozga was invited to participate in the opera house La Scala in Milan. Her parents, who could not afford moving abroad, could not let her participate. During her teenage years, Rozga first joined the high school in Split and after deciding to pursue her passion for dancing, she auditioned to join the ballet ensemble of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. She was accepted by the commission which was amazed by her dancing talents. Together with the group, she started performing in various localized productions of the plays Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker among others. Rozga later revealed that the ballet classes she did as a child "shaped me as a woman [...] it gave me order, dedication and discipline in life". During an interview for the Croatian TV channel Croatian Music Channel, Rozga revealed that even as a ballet dancer in her childhood, she had a big passion for singing and her dream, if she were ever to venture in a music career, would be to join Croatian pop band Magazin, whose lead singer at that time, Ljiljana Nikolovska, served as a source of inspiration for her. Rozga was also an avid fan of the band, whose songs she knew by heart. In 1992, Rozga received an award at a singing competition where she performed the song "Uvenut će ružmarin" () by Magazin. In 1994, she participated in another competition, Zvuci Jadrana (), where she received the award Zlatna Gospa for best performance for her rendition of Magazin's "Ti si želja mog života" (). Career 1996–2006: Magazin When Rozga was at the age of 18, her mother who saw that Magazin's lead singer at that time, Danijela Martinović, was leaving the group, contacted group leader Tonči Huljić, informing him about her daughter's interest in auditioning for the group. Rozga's mother also gave Huljić a picture of