- Anžej Dežan
Infobox musical artist
Name = Anžej Dežan
Background = solo_singer
Born = Birth date and age|1987|6|17|mf=y
Origin =Slovenia
Genre = Pop, Dance
Years_active = 2005–present
URL = http://www.anzej.com/Anžej Dežan (born
June 17 ,1987 inŠentjur (nearCelje ),PR Slovenia ,Yugoslavia ) is a Sloveniansinger .Biography
Anžej began his musical career by winning the TV show "Karaoke" only ten years old. His first major success though was in the 2005 talent show "Spet Doma" on
RTV Slovenija , where he was the runner-up (beaten byOmar Naber , who got to represent Slovenia inEurovision Song Contest 2005 ).His growing potential was recognised by the successful composers and lyricists Urša and Matjaž Vlašič and Boštjan Grabnar, who became Anžej's creative team. Together with them, Anžej published his first single "C'est la vie" which was one of the top singles of several Slovenian radio playlists.
In February 2005, Anžej was a backing vocalist for Nuša Derenda at
EMA , the Slovenian Eurovision preselection, while in May of the same year he entered the festival "Melodije morja in sonca" and cut his second single "Vroče". The song received a great reception at the festival and the jury awarded him first place.Anžej competed in the
EMA 2006 with the song "Plan B" with 12 points awarded by the jury and 14 points awarded by the viewers. (The runner-up song performed by Saša Lendero was actually the one awarded the maximum points from the viewers but received no points from the jury.) As the winner, he got to represent Slovenia in theEurovision Song Contest 2006 at which the song was sung in English and called "Mr Nobody". It ended up in 16th place in the semi-final though, and thus failed to qualify to the final.The song "Plan B" was also recorded in Serbian under the title "Srce od Kristala". He claims that it's his own record.
Albums
* C'est La Vie (That's Life)
ingles
* C'est La Vie
* Vroče
* Plan B (Mr. Nobody)ee also
*
Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006
*Eurovision Song Contest 2006 External links
* [http://www.anzej.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.eurovision.tv/english/slovenia.htm Eurovision Website - Slovenian Page]
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