The composer singer and flutist Tamara Obrovac, is one of the most impressive artists on the Croatian music scene, she is one of those musicians to whom jazz means a path to understanding music as a whole.
Moreover, it has ushered her towards an intensive investigation of her own regional music awareness, so she offers us a new musical journey through the  Istrian and Mediterranean spaces and times.
Istria is here homeland, beautiful Croatian region, a North Adriatic peninsula, particular for It's musical and dialectal tradition, which is  the creative force of her works.

She writes lyrics in a local dialect and sings in an ancient dialect which is not spoken any more - the Istriotic dialect.

In addition to here international concert activities, (numerous festivals, clubs, venues, all over the world) and many collaborations, she composes music for theater  and film, and for here work she received many awards.

Her international Transhistria Ensemble incorporates elements of Istrian and Mediterranean national music, jazz, and many elements of modern music, and her music, completely original and autochthonous, goes beyond time and geographical boundaries, thus becoming a universal artistic message, establishing Tamara Obrovac as an exceptional artist who managed to create her own unique musical expression.
This creative musician has become known for her highly aesthetic performances, her interpretations are suffused with spontaneity, inventive improvisation, freedom, humour and the ability to communicate with the audience, an artist of a strong persona, a life and artistic force able to enchant any audience...

As she said:  "jazz is my freedom, and my roots are my inner truth..."

She published 6 author CDs: “Triade”, 1996; “Ulika”, 1998; “Transhistria”, 2001; “Sve pasiva”/”Everything fades away”, 2003; “Daleko je”/”Is faraway”, 2005; “Neću više jazz kantati”/”I won’t sing jazz any more”, 2009.

Through her albums, Tamara profiles her own auctorial approach and creates a unique artistic form which, inspired by the Istrian and broader Mediterranean tradition, establishes “the personal poetics of the author”.

International recognition came also through the nomination for the BBC Radio 3 World music Awards 2004 (European Music and Audience Award).
Here is what John L. Walters, Guardian, 20/02/2004 said while browsing the Double CD with all the nominees songs:
"Fortunately, the random nature of awards compilation like this provides the opportunity to browse and skip and fall headlong for something you've never heard before. In my case, the "blind date" artist is Tamara Obrovac. Cansoneita (A Small Song) performed by Obrovac with the Transhistria Ensemble, is a floating, beguiling track, with spacious drumming, tuneful accordion and a delicious lead vocal by Obrovac."

Tamara also works on several different projects:
She has launched the years-long project of revitalization of dialectal and musical heritage of Istria, PANPHONIA ISTRIANA, in which the obsoleteness of the dialectal and cultural tradition is connected with the modern multimedia expression.

She is the artistic director of the new jazz festival, VALAMAR JAZZ, which had it’s first edition in  POREČ 09-11. Jully 2010.