Tamara,
Vrcak, and Adrijan are young, talented, and
very popular performers in Macedonia. Skopje
Music Academy senior student Tamara (Tamara
Todevska) was born in the Macedonian capital
of Skopje on 1st June 1985 is considered to be
one of Macedonia's best female singers. She
started her music career in 2001 with a huge
hit written by Robert Bilbilov, "Dali
Znam" (Do I know?), which she performed
at the Suncane Skale Festival in Montenegro in
2002.
The song
"1003", performed at the Budva
festival in Montenegro, topped the charts. She
also performed with her mother Branka, an
opera singer, at Ohrid Fest in Macedonia,
winning the third prize. Tamara participated
three times in Makfest in Stip, Macedonia. In
2004 with "Nemirna" (Restless), in
2006 "Sedmo Nebo" (Seventh Heaven)
with Vrcak won her the first prize, and in
2007 she had a memorable performance of the
ballad "Smesno, Zar Ne?" (Funny,
isn't it?). The audience in Serbia remembers
very well her song "Sex" with the
Belgrade group 187, which was very popular in
2004. The next year, the album Sino (Blue),
produced and composed by Aleksandar Masevski,
was released, earning an album of the year
award. In 2006,
Tamara and Vrcak found success together with
the song "Losa devojka" (Bad Girl),
performed at the Budva Fest.Tamara has already
felt the challenge of the Eurovision Song
Contest singing as a backing vocalist for the
late Tose Proeski in 2004, and in 2007 she
came second at the Macedonian national final
with "Kazi Koj Si Ti" (Tell Me Who
You Are).
Vrcak (Rade
Vrcakovski) was born in Skopje on 17th
November 1980. He is a well known composer,
songwriter and performer, whose two albums
"Kako Da Pobegnam Od Se" (If I Could
Run Away) and "Vo Tvoeto Srce (In Your
Heart), earned him numerous awards for best
song, album, songwriter, discovery of the year
and most played song.
Although a
senior medical student, he has chosen a career
in music. Vrcak performed at Makfest three
times: in 2001 with Andrijana Janevska he won
the second prize, in 2004 with Robert Bilbilov
he won the third prize, and finally his duet
with Tamara earned him first place. It was
actually his idea to write a song for his good
friends Tamara and Adrijan and himself, for
this year's Macedonia final and this is his
second Eurovision entry as Vrcak was also the
lyricist of "Ninanajna",
the Macedonian Eurovision entry in 2006.
Vrcak's
latest album was released in 2007 and was a
huge success, as it was one of the best
selling albums in the country. Singles from
the album received heavy airplay, as well as
making several appearances on MTV Adria. Vrcak
was a UNICEF ambassador of goodwill and he was
given a Mother Teresa humanitarian award.
Adrijan
(Adrian Gadza) was born in Skopje on 13th
February 1984. He is a Music High School
graduate studying viola and he is currently
studying English. He entered the showbusiness
world singing at Nota Fest in 2001 and won the
first prize, which was the first time a
newcomer to win the majority of votes of the
jury and the audience. Adrijan has since
become a household name both in Macedonia
and Albania, having released four albums,
three in Albanian and one in Macedonian.
He is well
known for his attractive stage performances
thanks to his dancing and choreography skills.
Adrijan won the first prize at Videofest, a
best male performer award at Topfest, twice
won a best video award at the Video Festival
in Tirana, best stage performance at Makfest,
first prize at Ohrid Fest. In 2006 his duet
with the famous Esma Redzepova "Ljubov
e..." (Love is...) won the second place
at the Macedonian Eurovision Song Contest
final. Adrijan is constantly on tour, not only
in FYR Macedonia and Albania, but also in
Germany, Scandinavia, Italy and
Switzerland.