The success story of the talented 23-year old Croatian DIY artist Fran Vasilić is a bit of a paradox, one that defies Caesar’s famous “first in village, second in Rome” quote. While having a 4.4 million fanbase on TikTok and being one of the most streamed Croatian artists on Spotify, he is still relatively unknown to his local audience. Coming from the Croatian island of Krk, Fran used most of the pandemic’s 2020 lockdown to write and record his debut album ‘Retrovizor’ (Rearview mirror) and define himself primarily as a singer-songwriter and then as a producer who “plays” several instruments on his laptop keyboard.
