Lara Ivanova

Lara Ivanova, who performs as LARA, is a pop singer from North Macedonia; Macedonian press introduces her as a young Macedonian singer. She sings in Macedonian and English.

She has sung at Makfest in Štip, the country's biggest pop festival, with "Koj te uči taka" in 2019 and "Duša" in 2021. Another of her singles from those years is "Koj e sega kriv". In 2022 she was one of the six finalists of Za Evrosong, the national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, with "Flower of Sorrow", music by Robert Bilbilov, lyrics by Robin Zimbakov and arrangement by Bilbilov and Darko Dimitrov; she also recorded it in Macedonian as "Cveke na tagata". In the final on 4 February 2022 she finished fourth with 15 points.

Her later singles include "Remek-delo", "Samo laga", "Rizik", "Tamu gore" and "Toksin" with Kasapski, and duets such as "Bella" with Pajak, "Site svetla" with Josif and "Galerija" with Vanski. In October 2025 Lara Ivanova presented her new song "Dominanten" at the gala evening for Makfest's 40th anniversary, and "Ajde" followed.