Marija Šerifović

Marija Šerifović ( Serbian Cyrillic Марија Шерифовић; born November 14, 1984 in Kragujevac ) is a Serbian singer. An international audience, she was known by her victory at the Euro Vision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki.

• 2.1 Singles
• 2.2 albums

Biography

Training and the beginning of the music career

Marija Šerifović was born in 1984 in Kragujevac, the daughter of Verica and Rajko Šerifović. Her mother is a well known folk singer. The parents discovered her early musical talent, and at the age of twelve years with Dolly Parton graduated Šerifović I Will Always Love You her first public performance.

She took as a very young teenager a cover version of the legendary Yugoslav pop songs Moje knave ( Kad ' sam umorna Besna i ) of the group Suncokret, a duet with her ​​mother. A few years later she had her first major TV appearance on the show Za milion godina, on RTV Pink. Thus, it was perceived by a wider audience for the first time. In the show evergreens were interpreted by singers, which were then evaluated against each other. Šerifović won in a program with the song I Learned from the Best by Whitney Houston.

She attended the Academy of Music and studied business administration. In 2003, she began her professional singing career with the release of the first solo album Naj, Najbolja. At the same time she participated in the music festival Pjesma Mediterana part in Budva, she could decide a year later titled Bol do ludila for themselves, which placed itself in the regional charts.

In summer 2005, Marija Šerifović 'Single Agonija was released, a cover version of the song I Believe It ( Olo Lipis ) the successful Greek singer Despina Vandi. In the same year, she participated in the Serbian pop music festival Beovizija part in the preliminary round of Serbia and Montenegro (now Serbia ) to the Euro Vision Song Contest 2005., Where she finished with the song Ponuda the 7th Place. In 2006 she won the Serbian Radio Festival ( Radijski festival ) with U nedelju, where she was honored for her interpretation with a special price. In 2006 Šerifović brought Bez ljubavi out their second album.

Victory at the Beovizija and the Euro Vision Song Contest

In spring 2007, the single Bez tebe was published, and Šerifović held on 21 February in the Belgrade Sava Centar their first concert in front of 4,000 spectators from.

A few weeks later, on March 7 and 8, they met again at the Beovizija Festival, which for the first time also held a purely Serbian preselection for the Euro Vision Song Contest 2007 (ESC ) to the independence of the earlier part of the state Montenegro. She performed with the ballad Molitva ( German: "Prayer " ), composed by Vladimir Grajić and written by Saša Milošević to. First, she was able to secure on March 7 in the semifinals under twenty participants one of the ten finalist positions and also on March 8 win the majority of the audience calls and the second place of the jury in the final. In the final analysis it was significantly ( 22 points ) before the group Balkanopolis (17 points), which meant qualifying for the ESC semi-final on May 10 in Helsinki, Finland.

The victory in the Serbian preliminary decision was followed by a promotional video, a documentary about the preparations Šerifovićs the European song contest and a promotional tour through Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Switzerland and Greece. Molitva was also in English ( Destiny ), Finnish ( Rukoilen ), Russian ( Malitva ) and recorded in three dance versions. In the international betting agencies, the Serbian singer was traded next to Serduchka from Ukraine and the Belarusians Dmitry Koldun as the favorite to win and could in the ESC semi-final place among the top ten titles, which meant a place in the two days later held Finale. There Šerifović won with 268 points, ahead of Ukraine ( 235 points ) and the Russian girl group Serebro (207). It was the first time that a country was victorious for the first participation. Serbia had indeed already taken part as part of Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro, but it was the first participation as an independent state. Also already in the semifinals Serbia had the top position, before the Hungarian Magdi Rúzsa clothed. Molitva was the first ballad, since 1996, which was able to record a victory. Likewise Molitva was the first winning song since 1991, which contained not a word in English and Marija Šerifović was the first to her song again sang in native language in the winning presentation.

After winning the Euro Vision Song Contest RTS gave a reception in Belgrade City Hall for Marija Šerifović and her entourage. Although the reception was given on the evening after the victory and organized everything very quickly, over 70,000 people gathered spontaneously in front of the town hall. It had also completely spontaneously gathered a Roma brass band, which played to welcome the Euro Vision Team Molitva. Marija Šerifović sang from the balcony of the town hall, together with their background singers Molitva in different versions for the crowds. The honor of such a reception was given so far only top athletes.

2007 was also the year in which the EBU introduced the so-called Winner Tour. For better promotion of the winning title, toured the winner with a private jet provided different countries and performances there in TV shows and giving interviews. As part of this tour visited Marija Šerifović Denmark, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, Greece and Germany.

After the ESC 2007

On 5 December 2007 Marija was an ambassador for International Dialogue (European Ambassador for Intercultural Dialogue ) appointed by the European Commission.

In the Serbian presidential election campaign in 2008, however, she appeared openly for the candidate of the Nationalist and EU-critical Serbian Radical Party (SRS ). After her victory at the Euro Vision Song Contest different political parties had tried to exploit their victory for political purposes, but up to the presidential elections, they had always distanced from it. Therefore called to her advocacy of Tomislav Nikolić, coupled with a expressed in an open letter to bitter criticism of the pro-EU candidate Boris Tadić, wonder out. The author team of Molitva, Vladimir Graić (music) and Saša Milošević ( text ) complained marijas behavior, as they sang the song during the presidential election at party meetings of the SRS. However Graić and Milošević did not want the song with policy is associated. After the elections, she distanced herself from the SRS and claimed she had never actively supported the party in the election campaign. She was a member of the SRS and would never join her. Šerifović said she do not understand politics and would like to never deal with it. She would have sung at the meetings, because the SRS had met her some promises that they would have given her before.

Marija Šerifović delivered after the many press ESC duels with the public broadcaster RTS. She complained about the allegedly poor preparations for their participation in the ESC 2007. Among other things, she complained that her RTS wanted to fund any video clip for Molitva and had little else organizes PR material. She expressed displeasure because they had not been invited to the draw for the starting order at the ESC 2008 in Belgrade and instead Željko Joksimović sang. Statements by the RTS that it is not common and mandatory was to invite the winners to draw and that they would have their appearance at the ESC, she rejected angry. Šerifovićs Manager Saša Aleksandar Mirkovic got from Tijanić, the managing director of RTS, banned. The dispute culminated in Mirkovic announced Marija Šerifović would give the time of ESC in Belgrade parallel a free concert for their fans from home and abroad. A surprising turn occurred on February 7, 2008, as Šerifović and Tijanić met for a debate, she apologized publicly, and an agreement on further cooperation was signed. Šerifovićs Manager Saša Mirkovic however, has been excluded from this collaboration.

The news agency Tanjug share with Marija on 3 March 2008 that it was increasingly come to disagreements with Mirkovic. Since they have come to compromise, they would have separated themselves "civilized". Šerifović was also the view that the strategy should be revised urgently in terms of their international career. After much press speculation Marija was on 22 April 2008 announced at the PR party for their new album Nizam ANDJEO that her new manager Raka Marić is.

Molitva in the charts

Despite the success of the Euro Vision Song Contest Molitva was initially released only on the annual compilation of the ESC in 2007 and outside of the Serbo-Croatian -speaking countries only in a few countries as a single, for example, neither in Germany nor in Austria. The release as a single in the German-speaking only took place on July 27, 2007. Sweden In the title rose on 17 May 2007 at number nine of the singles chart, although the title was not on sale yet, but this reached only on the basis of downloads. In Switzerland, the title debuted at rank 19 of the charts on 28 May 2007.

More career

2009 Šerifović was invited by Swedish television to participate as a jury member in the Swedish finals for the ESC. At that time she lived in Sweden and Denmark, where she was working on an English album, which will be released on the Warner Music label for the international market. In December 2009, her album ANDJEO was released, which is intended for the ex - Yugoslav market. Marija took to the surprise of many on the reality show Farma part. According to media reports, they should have received € 100,000 as a fee for participation. Šerifović left the farm until the beginning of April, which meant that her scheduled for April 15, 2010 concert at the BeoArena had to be canceled because too little time for the necessary samples remained. Other sources state that too few tickets were sold and it was hoped on May 11, 2010 By shifting the concert for better clearance sales. The concert was held as scheduled, but demand remained below expectations. The number of visitors amounted to very different according to press reports 7000-10000 people, although the BeoArena summarizes significantly more visitors.

Discography

Singles

• 2005: Ponuda
• 2005: Agonija
• 2007: Bez tebe
• 2007: Molitva

Albums

• 2003: Naj, najbolja
• 2006: Bez ljubavi
• 2007: Molitva ... Best Of
• 2008: ANDJEO Nizam
• 2009: ANDJEO