MY FATHER
	Stanko Matejas 1950-2006
			The song playing is "Osedlaj vjetar" ("Saddle up the Wind") recorded in 1980 when my Dad was working with the composer and friend Mario Mihaljevic. My Dad loved authentic American country and blue grass music.
	When I moved to America, my father said to me: "Remember to always share what you have been given with love. If you do, you will be taken care of." I have been living my Dad's words ever since. I think of him often, missing him terribly. He would have been proud at me: my home, my boys, my music. I know that he would still warn me about working too much and not taking time to play... I miss my Tata.
	Tata and his older brother Branko. (They also have a younger sister Magdalena, who everyone calls Beba)	Tata's first band "Fantomi". His dad didn't let him play because his grades were not great. Still, nothing could stop my tata from singing and playing.	I was born when my dad turned 20. He and my mom rented a room from a lady who wouldn't let them watch her TV because she said if more people watched it, it would wore out faster.
	When I turned 13, tata let me sing with his band. There was nothing I liked more than singing with him.	I had warned Matthew that at our wedding, I would still want to sing a song or two with my Dad. Here is tata's sister Beba, Tata, me and my sister Sanya all singing together.	When I was little and needed to be "bribed" my dad would say: "I'll take you to Disneyland if you..." I think we both knew that was almost impossible... until one day, I moved to Los Angeles, and he came to visit me... Here is my tata with Dante
	Tonkica was born on July 2nd 2004, to my dad and his wife Mirjana.	Being a musician wasn't only my tata's profession. It was who he was. He was a heart of every party.	My sister Sanya visited tata during his radiation treatments before he ended up in a hospital.
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