Kristina Arnaudova

Kristina Arnaudova is a Macedonian pop singer and songwriter, born on 21 September 1979 in Negotino. Her music leans towards pop rock, and since 2015 she has also been known for the children's charity she founded, Project Happiness.

She sang at a school recital at the age of four and at sixteen started a local pop-rock band. In 1996 she won the Teen Fest festival ahead of some 150 other candidates. A year later she joined the rock band Saga, and from 1998 to 2000 she sang with Big Bang, the year she moved to Skopje.

Her solo career began in 2000 with "Sonce", composed by Aleksandar Ristevski Prinz. "Prašina" was named hit of the year for 2001/2002, and her first album, Vozovi (2003), with fourteen songs, won album of the year. It holds many of her best-known songs: "Prašina", "Znaeš koj e toj", "Podaj mi raka", "Sudeno ti e", "Vozovi" and "Tvoja do kraj".

She produced her second album, 2007, herself; it came out in 2008 with twelve songs, among them "Nemam srce za drug", "Goli vo srcata", "Prv i posleden" and "Zošto". "Ne me ostavaj" spent seven weeks at the top of the MTV Balkan list.

In 2012 she released "Samo ednaš" and wrote the anthem of the handball club Metalurg. "Zemi me", recorded with Bojan Trajkovski, won best pop-rock hit at the 2014 Radio Festival, and an album of the same name followed in May 2014. As a songwriter she gave the group I Q "Ubava", which won Skopje Fest in 2015, and "Ljubena" was named hit of the year in 2018.

Since 2016 her humanitarian work has come first. Through Project Happiness she runs a free music and arts school and a children's drama studio in Skopje for children at social risk, and she has received several awards for it, including Philanthropist of the Year in Macedonia in 2017.