Maria ŠESTIĆ (performer)

Maria ŠESTIĆ was born on the 5th of May, 1987, in Banja Luka. She started her music career when she was only six, performing at various children music festivals, and winning numerous first prizes for her performance. At the Young Talents Festival in Zenica, she won first prize for her performance for three years in a row.

Since the age of six, she participated at various children music festivals and regularly won prizes;

* St. Georges Festival, Banja Luka, 1995, third place
* St. Georges Festival, Banja Luka, 1996, first place
* Naša Radost, Podgorica, 1998, special award for performance
* Zlatno Zvonce, Novi Sad, 1999, winner of the first place for performance

At the age of thirteen, she started her piano studies at the Music Academy in Banja Luka. In 2000 she performed at the MTV Europe in Berlin, as the first singer from former Yugoslavia, and published her debut album. In 2003 at the Banja Luka International Pop Music Festival, where she won the prize for the best newcomer. In 2004 she participated at the international Golden Star festival in Bucharest (Romania) and won the first prize for performance and a FIDOF organization diploma. In 2005 she participated at the International Music Festival in Banja Luka and won the second prize. At the BH Eurosong 2005 contest she participated with the composition In This World and won a great fourth place. Marija graduated piano at the Music Academy in Banja Luka as the youngest student ever at the Art Academy in Banja Luka. She also achieved remarkable results at international contests for young pianists. Currently, she’s working as a piano professor at the Music academy in Banja Luka and is working on her magisterial.

Aleksandra MILUTINOVIĆ (songwriter/composer)

Aleksandra MILUTINOVIĆ was born on the 25th of November, 1980, in Belgrade (Serbia). Already as a little girl she showed her music talent playing on a guitar and composing. She completed basic and high music school Josip Slavenski, and currently she is close to completing her studies at the Music Art Academy in Belgrade.
She promoted her first compositions as a member of a pop-rock band Sedmi Dan. At the age of eighteen she was named as a music, lyrics and music-arrangement author on one of the best-selling CDs in the former Yugoslavia – Goca Tržan’s debut CD U Niskom Letu. From that moment on she was nothing but successful at a various music festivals. She is cooperating with many musicians and with some of the most important producers from the former Yugoslavia. She worked together with Goca Tržan, Aleksandar Radovic, Toše Proeski, Sergej Ćetkovic, Željko Joksimovic, Jelena Tomasevic, Maja Tatic, Boris Režak, Žarko Houdek and others. Among many prizes won by Aleksandra, some of the most important are;

* The first prize, the Journalists’ Award and the Award for Mediterranean Sound at the Budva 2006 festival with Incanto band and the song Spavaj
* The prize for the best lyrics author at the Radio Festival 2005 for the composition Karta Za Jug, performed by Aleksandra Radovic
* Second place at the Budva 2005 festival for the composition Karta Za Jug and the prize for the best lyrics
* The first prize at the Beovizijia 2005 festival as a lyrics author for the Željko Joksimovic song Jutro, performed by Jelena Tomasevic
* Second place at the Sunčeve Skale 2004 festival for the composition Kao So U Moru, performed by Aleksandra Radovic

She was also working as studio musician with some of the most known producers and composers from the former Yugoslavia. Since 2005 she is working with a composer and producer Goran Kovacic. Aleksandra and Goran are authors of the song representing Bosnia & Herzegovina at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest.

Goran Kovacic (songwriter/composer)

Goran Kovacic was born on the 24th of April, 1982, in Banja Luka (Bosnia & Herzegovina), where at the age of nine he began with his music education at the Vlado Milosevic music school. In 1995 he continued his education in Belgrade, where he completed basic and high music school Josip Slavenski.

Currently he’s close to completing his studies at the Music art academy in Belgrade. He won many prizes at international and domestic guitar contests. During his education he has had a chance to work with some of the most eminent guitar professors, and since 2003 he is also studying at the Mozartum University in Salzburg, Austria, in the class of the virtuoso Eliot Fisk. At the Mozarteum he started with his education as a sound director and producer in the class of one of the most famous Italian producers Mikel GAGI. In the last three years he has been active in the world of pop music as a composer, lyrics author, music arranger and producer. During this period he had an opportunity to work with some famous artists, such as: Aleksandra Radovic, Jelena Tomasevic, Željko Joksovmovic and many others. He played all the guitar sequences for the song Lejla, which presented Bosnia & Herzegovina at last year’s Eurovision Song Contest contest in Athens, preformed by Hari Mata Hari. He also took part in the song production as wellas the sound master and pickup. Since 2005 he presents a major part of his work, cooperating with composer and lyrics author Aleksandra Milutinovic. Jointly, they composed the song, which will be representing Bosnia & Herzegovina at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contets in Helsinki.

Participant: Maria ŠESTIĆ
Song: Rijeka Bez Imena
Writers: Aleksandra MILUTINOVIĆ & Goran KOVACIČ
Composers: Aleksandra MILUTINOVIĆ & Goran KOVACIČ
Broadcaster: BHRT
National selection: Internal selection

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