Jelena Tomašević

Jelena Tomasevic ( Serbian Cyrillic Јелена Томашевић; born 1 November 1983 in Negotin, Yugoslavia, now Serbia ) is a Serbian singer. She has received numerous awards for her songs and represented Serbia at the Euro Vision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade with the song Oro.

Life

Jelena Tomasevic graduated 2002, the Matura. In the same year she began on the University of Kragujevac at the faculty of English language study.

Career as a singer

Childhood and youth

Jelena began at the age of eight years to participate in the children's singing show Šarenijada in Kragujevac. This was her first public appearance, and even then they could attract people with her ​​expressive voice in its spell. In 1994, she appeared at a children's party before much larger number of audience.

Jelena Tomasevic was for many years a member of the Folklore Society Abrašević and often collected at international events experience.

In 2002 she won the talent competition 3K major and even joined in the same year at the Sunflower Festival in Zrenjanin. From then on, she participated in various international festivals in the Czech Republic, Belarus and Bulgaria.

In the RTS television program Leti, leti, pesmo moja mila, are presented in the old Serbian folk songs, she was frequently a guest. Usually there interpreted only well-known and respected artists the traditional songs, but Jelena has already been invited, when she was still little known.

Cooperation with Željko Joksimović

In 2004, she first participated in the singing competition Beovizija, where she could finally introduce a wider audience. For the Ethnopopgruppe beaver she sang the vocal part in the play gde si bilo, jare moje. This Željko Joksimović became aware of them. He composed the song Jutro ( morning hours ) for Jelena, which they interpreted the 2005 Serbian euro vision decider Beovizija. This could confidently decide for themselves. The common final with the Montenegrin performer but eventually won the favorite of Montenegro group No Name the qualifying round.

She sang at the opening ceremony of the European Basketball Championship 2005 in Serbia. Also for the film Ivkova slava (2005) she sang some of the tracks for the soundtrack.

Euro Vision Song Contest 2008

In 2007, she signed a recording contract with the company Minacord. 2008 Željko Joksimović again composed a song for her. With the song Oro, she won the national decider for Serbia to be held in Belgrade Euro Vision Song Contest 2008, where they finished sixth. Oro was accompanied on Tomaševićs initiative, Bora Dugić on the Frula.

The song Oro was also included in other language versions, including Spanish ( Adios amor ), Greek ( Έλα αγάπη ( Ela agapi ) ) and Portuguese ( Minha dor ). Planned versions were also in Russian, Hebrew and Finnish. The relevant texts were organized by local Euro Vision Fan Club OGAE Serbia, which already had organized different language versions for the Serbian contribution Molitva from 2007. Due to time constraints, however, was waived these texts. An English version was indeed received, but not published because it loud Tomasevic to " cool " sounds and the real emotion of the original version does not reproduce.