Monday, August 20, 2007

2007

Slobodan Batjarević
Milan Dinčić
Radmila Manojlović
Silvija Nedeljković
Milan Stanković
Nemanja Stevanović
Dušan Svilar

The Grand Star will be revealed in the 15th of September at Tašmajdan Stadium.

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Grand Production

Grand Production (formely ZAM) is a Serbian record label. It is owned and operated by Saša Popović who often goes only by his nickname Sale. It's home to some of the best selling Balkans folk, pop-folk, and turbo-folk artists.
Some of the artist currently signed to Grand, or have been so in the past, include:
Dara Bubamara
Ceca
Dragan Kojić Keba
Mile Kitić
Šaban Šaulić
Jana
Marinko Rokvić
Seka Aleksić
Zlata Petrović
Saša Matić
Viki Miljković
Indira Radić
Tanja Savić
Lepa Brena
Elma Sinanović
Sanja Đorđević
Nataša Đorđević
Suzana Jovanović
Jelena Karleuša
Goga Sekulić
Slavica Ćukteraš
Darko Filipović
The label also produces a massively popular weekly television variety show Grand parada, which airs on Serbian RTV Pink network, as well its subsidiaries in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro (Pink BH and Pink M, respectively). The show serves as showcase for Grand Production's artists.

Beovizija 2006

Beovizija 2006 was the 4th edition of Beovizija. 23 songs competed in the Beovizija 2006 contest, one song, due to be performed by Zvezde Granda and Nevena Paripović, was not featured, though no reason was given for this.
The winners were Flamingosi featuring Luis with the song, Ludi Letnji Ples
1st: Flamingosi feat. Luis - Ludi Letnji Ples - 94 points
2nd: Ana Nikolić - Romale Romali - 77 points
3rd: Ivana Jordan - Lazarica - 63 points
4th: Tijana Todevska-Dapčević - Greh - 61 points
5th: Mari Mari - Da ti se Dlanovi Zalede - 49 points
6th: Biber - Kapija - 34 points
7th: Romana - Kap po Kap - 19 points
8th: Maja Nikolić - Kada ti Treba - 18 points
9th: Ivana Kneževic - Poruka za Ljubav - 15 points
10th: Blah blah band - Maler - 14 points
11th: Blizanci - Jednom Pokidano - 13 points
12th: Ana Bekuta - Konak - 13 points

Slavica Ćukteraš

Slavica Ćukteraš (Serb Cyrillic: Славица Ћуктераш) (born 28 January 1985 in Šabac, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian singer. She became famous after competing in a Serbian singing contest called Zvezde Granda. She did not win, but she did become a famous singer following the signing of a contract with Grand Production.

Discography:

Nema pravila (2005)
Ćiribu, ćiriba (2006)

Branislav "Bane" Mojićević

Branislav "Bane" Mojićević (Бранислав "Бане" Мојићевић) was born on 20 August 1986 in Kraljevo, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He became famous after competing in a Serbian singing contest called "Zvezde Granda". He was the winner of the contest and signed a contract with Grand Production.
He has toured the world with the other five finalists of Zvezde Granda: Slavica Ćukteraš, Nemanja Nikolić, Darko Filipović, Tanja Savić, and Stevan Anđelković.

Silvija

Silvija is voted out in semi finals, but entered into Final show because judges gave her the wild card (one of the two the awarded, the went to the Dejan Popov, the only male competitor). Silvija was eliminated on The Rock and Roll night April 16 2006, and thus got 5th place on the show.

Tanja Savic

Tanja Savić (Тања Савић) was born on March 20, 1985 in Radunace (near Smederevoo), Yugoslaviaa, (Serbiaa). She became famous after competing in a Serbian singing contest called "Zvezde Granda". She did not win, but she did become a famous singer following the signing of a contract with Grand Productionn.
Tanja Savić is the second child of Staniša and Živana. She has one brother, Tomica, and a sister, Biljana. She first participated in a singing contest at the age of eight, when she began having an interest in music. She participated in many singing contests, and would always take home one of the first three prizes.
She saw the audition of "Zvezde Granda" as the perfect opportunity to broadcast her talent in front of a professional jury. She was selected as one of the six finalists. She took third place in this contest. The first song she recorded with Grand Production, "Za moje dobro", topped the charts.
Her first album, Tako mlada, was released in 2005. Since, she has "toured the world" (which in argo of the turbo-folk subculturee means that she has appeared in Serbian clubs for Serbian and South-Slav diaspora) with the other five finalists of Zvezde Granda: Slavica Ćukteraš, Nemanja Nikolić, Darko Filipović, Bane Mojićević, and Stevan Andjelković.