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Jovan Jovanov was born on 27.05 1981, his star sign is Gemini, and his sun sign is Cancer. He is a senior at the Music academy, graduating this year. His music desire, as well as his talent have been his foremost assets since he was very young. He was a part of the children choir ‘Zlatno slavejce’, and enrolled in the junior music school when he was five years old. He had his first stage performance on 26.06 1996, on ‘Tin Fest’ in Prilep, with his song ‘Frli ja cigarata’ (Throw The Cigarette), whose author was Jovan by himself. The next year, 10.10 1997 he had his first performance on a professional festival.

His ambition is to become a music hit-maker, as he is on the right way of reaching the goal. In may, the year 1998, he forms the teen music band ‘Magija’ (‘Magic’), (Jovan, Zoki, Damjan and Doni), and records his first songs ‘Otkaci se’ (‘Go away’) and ‘D.J’. Applies and competes on Makfest 1998, with the song ‘Magija’, where he realizes his first bigger success- wins the first prize of the audience, and the second prize on the International evening.

In the year 1998, ‘Magija’ gets the status of the most popular music band in the daily newspaper ‘Vecer’. On the national manifestation ‘Dvanaeset Velicestveni’ they won the best band award of the audience. The band ‘Magija’ has accomplished a few successful tours all over Macedonia, while popularity was growing, and there was no radio or any other music list where they were not on the top of the singles with their hits. On 12.10 1999, at the café ‘Stradivarius’, in the City Mall, Jovan had his band’s first music album promoted. The album is called ‘Pomisluvam na tebe’ (I Think Of You) and counts 12 compositions. On 17.10 1999, the popular band ‘Magija’ had their first solo concert, filling up the whole ‘Kale’ Hall. All the mediums were talking about their great performance as a real spectacle. On 03.02 2000 on the manifestation ‘Buba Mara’, ‘Magija’ was they awarded as the most popular music band in 1999. Later, on 24.02 2000 won the same award on ‘Dvanaeset Velicestveni’. Apart from composing songs for his band, Jovan Jovanov also creates songs for other talented singers. Jovan won the second reward on Skopje Festival, with the band ‘Tick-Tack’, and the song ‘Mojot zivot’ (My Life). In spring 2001, in one of his interviews, Jovan announces that the band ‘Magija’ is not going to exist any more. In the summer 2001, Jovan was working on forming and developing his own music studio in order to keep creating good quality singles for himself and other singer.

The same year, Jovan leaves to Toronto- Canada. After a short break of a few moths, he sets up his solo career and records his first solo single with a video, named ‘Da te imam samo tebe’ (To Have Only You), in his studio ‘Jovanovi’. On 10.10 2003, he takes part on Makfest’03 in Shtip, performing ‘Da te vidam pak’ (To See You Again), where he wins the third prize and a stage performance award.

14.02 2004, Jovan Jovanov takes place on the Eurovision Song Contest, composing the song ‘Angel si ti’ (You’re an Angel), performed by Tose Proeski. This success made him the youngest composer on the Eurovision in Istanbul. Jovan keeps cooperating more and more with singers from Kosovo and Albania. On 29.05 2004, he makes the video for his song ‘Koj e tvojot problem’ (What’s Your Problem), for the first time working with his brother Ivan, who does rap. On the 20 years anniversary of Makfest, 13-15.10 2005, Jovanov was remembered by wining the first award on the festival with Maja Sazdanovska, with their song ‘Ti me sakas znam’ (You Love Me, I Know). Despite this, he won the second place with the song ‘300 godini’ (300 Years), sung by Adrian Gadza. None Nedelkovska got the fourth place singing a song composed by Jovan as well. It was more than obvious how the audience admired Jovan, so that he won the first awards of audience all the three days the concert took place. In 2005, Jovan was chosen as the most creative boy in the female weekly magazine TAA (She). The next year, 2006, Jovan competes on the Eurovision Song Contest again, with a song performed by Adrian Gadza and Esma Redzepova, who won the second place. In the year 2006, Zoran Stamenkovski, one of the ex-singers of ‘Magija’, wins the third place with Jovan’s composition ‘Se na svoe mesto’ (All On Its Place). In the autumn 2006, None Nedelkovska promoted her first music album, whose complete author is Jovan Jovanov.

On 02.02 2007, Jovan makes the video for his ballad ‘Vo pravo si’ (You’re Right), and announces that he was working on his new album where 14 compositions were going to be included. On 24.02 2007, performs the song ‘1, 2, 3...’ on the Eurovision Song Contest, with Maja Sazdanovska, and again, their song was one of the very favorites. On 24.02 2007 Jovan promoted his album ‘Na moj nacin’ (On My Way), and makes the video for his composition ‘Sega jas si zaminuvam’ (Now I’m Leaving), in cooperation with ‘Fabrika Production’. The promotion was organized at the café-club ‘La Luna’, Ramstore, with 500 guest who attended the event, the celebration of his 10 years music career. Getting his album done, he goes on working on None Nedelkovska’s new album. On 01.06 2007, ‘Premier Production’ presents the music album of Elvir Mekik, accomplished by Jovan Jovanov as a composer, and Elvir Mekik who wrote the lyrics. On 24 and 25.06 2007, Jovan had a performance on Budva 2007 and on 09 and 10.07 2007 took place on Herceg Novi ’07 on the debutant evening, composing a song for Bravo Band who won the third award. On Ohrid Fest, Jovan won the first jury award as a composer of the song sung by Elvir Mekik and Maja Sazdanovska. Nowadays, he works with many famous and anonymous singers, as well as the album of his cooperator Elvir Mekik, who presented one of Jovan’s songs competing on Makfest 2007 and won the third award of the audience.