Ivan Mihaljevic & Side Effects

Ivan Mihaljevic is a guitarist/singer/songwriter. He was born on 16th August 1986 in Zagreb. When he was 14 years old he started taking guitar lessons in Rock Academy. During the next few years he played in a few bands until he formed the band named Forsaken. He played a lot of live shows with Forsaken in Croatia and recorded 2 demo albums. When he finished Rock Academy he continued to take guitar lessons (as well as theory, singing and piano lessons) in music highschool for jazz and popular music.

When he was 14 years old he started taking guitar lessons in Rock Academy. During the next few years he played in a few bands until he formed the band named Forsaken. He played a lot of live shows with Forsaken in Croatia and recorded 2 demo albums. When he finished Rock Academy he continued to take guitar lessons (as well as theory, singing and piano lessons) in music highschool for jazz and popular music.

In the summer of 2005 he performed at the biggest European metal festival Wacken Open Air in Germany with a famous Croatian hard rock band Hard Time and got excellent reviews. During the next year and a half he played in a few bands, but nothing worked out, and he was playing gigs every now and then with Hard Time filling in for their guitarist whenever he couldn't play a gig.

In November 2006 he became a full time member of Hard Time, he played a lot of gigs with the band (including a concert being recorded for a live DVD, a concert with one of his biggest guitar heroes Paul Gilbert and a festival with rock legends The Cult and Scorpions) and recorded 2 music videos (for the songs ?Deja Vu? and ?Zombie?)! In November 2007 he went on his first European tour with Hard Time.

He is planning a whole bunch of live shows with Hard Time. He recorded his solo album ?Sancastle? [2008] and ''Destination Unknown'' [2010].