Željko Joksimović was born on April 20th 1972 in Belgrade. The years of growing up and education bond him with Valjevo, a place from where he went to test himself in the world of music, and where he always returned as a winner. The fact that, when he was only twelve, he won the title “First harmonica of Europe” on the prestigious music festival in Paris speaks in favor of this. Željko.. s career as a professional musician started at the age of five, and it became more and more prosperous as the years passed. In the midd – nineties (1993, 1996, 1997) he had many accomplishments on the “Belgrade spring” festival as a composer. His composition “Tambourines toll” won the first prize on the “Golden tambourine” festival in the year 2000 in Novi Sad. His success on the “Song of Mediterranean” festival in Budva 1998, with the composition “The song of sirens” (interpretation award) gave him the possibility of participating on two prestigious international festivals in Belarus, in the cities Mahilyow and Vitsyebsk. In the year 1999 he won the Gran Prix on both festivals. The last years in the nineties he spent composing music for the theater plays, like “Mandagora”, “Ljubinko and Desanka”, “The slave of love”, “On foot”, “I don’t have money, I won’t pay”… The turning point of his work as a pop - soloist was releasing his first album (for “City records production”) in 2000. Results of his work were more than obvious. His first album was proclaimed best-selling album in “City records production” that year. In years to follow Željko will remain in the very top of Serbian pop music. Numerous awards following his first album proved his quality and persistence. The turning point in his career is considered to be Željko’ s winning the national contest for Serbia and Montenegro’s representative on “Eurosong” 2004 with his song “Lane moje”. After very long time, Serbia and Montenegro once again had their representative on this prestigious European contest. Winning second place on the “Eurosong” contest in Istanbul and THE MARCEL BEZENCON Press award (best composer award) made him way to the top of the European music scene. This success changed the course of his career. This turning point gave a special tone to his musical opus and the songs he made after 2004. In years to follow he had notable achievements as a composer. Already next year he reappears on “Beovision” and the national contest for Serbia and Montenegro’s representative, with composition “The morning” (“Jutro”), sing by Jelena Tomašević. Željko’ s cooperation and duet with the Austrian singer Tamee Harrison “I live my life for you” made great success throughout Europe. “Warner” included this composition in a compilation, along with songs of Robbie Williams, ABBA etc. In December 2005 his last released album was a fantastic success and was sold in more than 500 000 copies. This album represented a great quality improvement in Željko’ s work. In this period Željko tried himself as a film music composer. In cooperation with “Cobra production” he composed music for the movie “Ivko’ s slava” (“Ivkova slava”). His great accomplishment on “Eurosong” 2004 was repeated in Athens 2006, when his musical piece “LEJLA” , written for Bosnia and Herzegovina’ s representative – “HARI MATA HARI” band, won not only third place on the contest, but also the prestigious best composer award (COMPOSERAWARD 2006), assigned to Željko by all composers who participated on the festival (COMPOSERAWARD 2006). * * * In the year 2004 Željko Joksimović founded “MINACORD PRODUCTION”. Since then, he works and composes in this studio. Today, “MINACORD PRODUCTION” is a company with a vision of becoming one of the most important productions in the region, with successes based on quality and good reputation. Names like Željko Joksimović, Jelena Tomašević and Milena Vučić signify nearly a beginning of creating a musical family of great names. The other half of 2006 led “MINACORD PRODUCTION” into the motion picture world. That year Željko Joksimović signed as a producer and composer of the “Jet set” series, “MINACORD PRODUCTION”’s “firstborn”. realeditorbest profile toolsrealeditorbest profile tools
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