Tijana Dapčević (born February 3, 1976 in Skopje

Skopje

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, SFR Yugoslavia (present-day Republic of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

)) also known as simply Tijana, is a famous pop singer performing mainly in Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

. Tijana was born to a Macedonian

Macedonians (ethnic group)

The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...

 father Velko Todevski and a Bosnian Serb mother from bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

 Branka. She has a younger sister Tamara

Tamara Todevska

Tamara Todevska , known as Tamara, is a Macedonian pop singer. She was born to a Macedonian father and a Serbian mother from Turkey. Her sister is the well known Macedonian pop singer Tijana Todevska-Dapčević.-Early life:...

, and is married to Milan Dapčević, a Serbian businessman.

One of her hit songs is "Sve je isto, samo njega nema" (All Is The Same, Only He Is Not Here), he being former Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito

Josip Broz Tito

Marshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...

. The track has parts of the song in all of the former Yugoslavia

Former Yugoslavia

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's languages; Serbian

Serbian language

Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

, Croatian

Croatian language

Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...

, Bosnian

Bosnian language

Bosnian is a South Slavic language, spoken by Bosniaks. As a standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect, it is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina....

, Montenegrin

Montenegrin language

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, Slovene and Macedonian

Macedonian language

Macedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...

.

She won the "Sunčane skale" festival in Herceg Novi

Herceg Novi

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 in 2002 with the song "Negativ" composed by Darko Dimitrov

Darko Dimitrov

Darko Dimitrov ) is a Macedonian record producer, songwriter, arranger and record executive. Highly acclaimed for revitalising the Macedonian mainstream pop music scene, which also influenced the surrounding Balkan countries, he also received international recognition for working with many popular...

, included on her second studio album with the same title. She has also won first place on the "Serbian Radio Festival-Feras" in 2006 with the song "Julijana".

During Evropesma

Evropesma

Evropesma or Europjesma was a pop festival in Serbia and Montenegro which ran from 2004 to 2006. The winning song represents the country in the Eurovision Song Contest...

 2006 (The Song for Europe in the former Serbia and Montenegro

Serbia and Montenegro

Serbia and Montenegro was a country in southeastern Europe, formed from two former republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia : Serbia and Montenegro. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, it was established in 1992 as a federation called the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...

), Tijana was placed in 8th place receiving 27 points with the song "Greh" ("Sin"). "Greh" was included on her nest album Žute minute, which was released in the summer of 2007.

The singer lives in Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

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Discography

• 1. Kao da.. (2000)
• 2. Negativ (2002)
• 3. Zemlja mojih snova (2004)
• 4. Žuta minuta (2007)
• 5. Muzika (2010)

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