Alba Nacinovich came close to music very early, winning the “Zecchino d’Argento” at Zecchino d’Oro children’s song festival in 1993. After studying classical piano with prof. Roberto Haller, she completed the Master in Jazz Singing, graduating with honours at the “Giuseppe Tartini” Conservatoire in Trieste (Italy) under the guide of professors Klaus Gesing and Glauco Venier. She attended part of her studies at the “Escola Superior de Música, Artes e Espectáculo” in Porto (Portugal) as an Erasmus student.

She had the pleasure to perform with the likes of the Grammy-nominated pianist Glauco Venier, the Joe Zawinul Legacy Band (Scott Kinsey, Hadrien Feraud, Katisse Buckingham, Michael Baker, Bobby Thomas Jr), Yazz Ahmed, Francesco Diodati, Marcello Allulli, Janek Gwizdala, Antonio Serrano and Jure Pukl.

She figures on Žan Tetičkovič’s album “The Port Of Life“, winner of the ASCAP Foundation’s Johnny Mendel Prize 2017, on Zvjezdan Ružić’s “The Knightingale Cabaret” and Elvis Stanić Group’s “Sol et Luna” albums, both awarded with the Porin (the Croatian discographic award) as well as on Jan Sturiale’s and Damir Halilić Hal’s records.

She has been selected by the director Airelle Besson to join the “Euroradio Jazz Orchestra” (broadcasted by Radio France and BBC 3) for the France hosted 2017 edition. She performed at some of the most notable jazz festivals in Italy, Croatia and France such as Villa Celimontana Jazz, Jazz&Wine of Peace, Veneto Jazz, Trieste loves Jazz, Südtirol Jazzfestival, D’Jazz Nevers, Jazz sou les pommiers, Jazzdor, Liburnia Jazz, Jazz Time Rijeka and at other prestigious venues such as viennese Porgy & Bess, Pula Roman amphitheatre, Zagreb’s Lisinski auditorium, Bologna’s Estragon and Ljubljana’s Kino Šiška.

She attended workshops by Norma Winstone, Sheila Jordan, Stefano Bollani, Marc Ribot, Diana Torto, the Ohad Talmore NewsReel and the Stage International de Jazz in Trier (Germany).

She has collaborated with the Croatian and Italian Dramas and the Opera Orchestra of the Croatian National Theatre “Ivan pl. Zajc” in the roles of solo singer, soundtrack performer and actress, as well as with the Zagreb contemporary music Cantus Ansambl.

She has been teaching modern and jazz singing in various music schools in Italy and at summer workshops in Croatia. She now teaches Jazz singing at the Conservatorio “Nino Rota” in Monopoly (Italy). 

She was a music programmer at the Croatian National Radio Station “Radio Rijeka” before moving to London in 2017.

During the London stay in 2017-2018 she brought her duo Alba&Leo to the stages of Ronny Scott’s Upstairs, The Troubadour, and opened for Natacha Atlas the Cambridge Ahbab Festival. She was also accepted into The Rattle, a game-changing collective of artists and tech developers, founded by experts from the MIT and the Abbey Road Studios.

In 2023 Alba&Leo published the “Adultish” EP produced by the Mercury Prize nominated Gerry Diver. Their latest single “Won’t be back soon” was selected by Frank Turner and Mungo Jerry as the 2nd prize winner at the Absolute Music Best Original Song Competition.