Janez Kalan

He was also a founding member of the singing group Fantje s Praprotna and a cousin of the singer Jože Šifrar. He was regularly employed as a salesman at Petrol company and it was at his workplace that he and Lojze Slak made their first contact and agreed on further musical collaboration between the singing group Fantje s Praprotna and the Lojze Slak Trio. He has collaborated with the ensemble until 1993.

On the ensemble’s tours in the US, they found out that his face and hairstyle reminded many people in America of President Kennedy, making him especially popular among them. An interesting fact that testifies to how closely Slak's boys were connected to each other is, among other things, that Lojze Slak was a wedding witness to Janez Kalan.

(April 24, 1940, Praprotno - April 4, 2015, buried in Škofja Loka)