Rebeka Dremelj

Rebeka Dremelj is a Slovenian pop singer, model, TV presenter and fashion designer, born on 25 July 1980 in Brežice and raised in Senovo, where she went to primary school. She started dancing in a group in the fifth grade, began modelling at thirteen and was a finalist of Jana magazine's Model '95 contest.

In 2001, while studying economics part-time, she was crowned Miss Slovenia. At Miss World 2001 she came second in the talent show and signed with Sony Records in London. She was already on television by then, hosting "Leteči štart" on TV3 around 2000, and she later presented "Bodi Idol" on Net TV (2004) and a morning programme on Radio Studio D in Novo mesto.

Her first albums were Prvi korak and To sem jaz, whose title song she sang at the Hit festival in 2003. At EMA, the Slovenian Eurovision selection, she came eighth in 2004, third in 2005 with "Pojdi z menoj", the title song of her 2006 album, and fourth in 2006 with "Noro se ujameva", sung with Domen Kumer. At Melodije morja in sonca in 2005 "To je prava noč" took second place and the jury award for best arrangement.

In 2008 Rebeka Dremelj won EMA with "Vrag naj vzame" and represented Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade. She sang in the first semi-final on 20 May 2008, finished eleventh of nineteen and did not reach the final. Nepremagljiva (2009) and Differo (2010), with "Pod mojo kožo", followed on Menart and Hayat Production, and the compilation Best of Me came out in 2014, the year she was twelfth at Melodije morja in sonca with "Gremo na vrh sveta".

She has also acted, as a teacher in the Serbian TV series "Kursađije" and in the film "Na svoji Vesni", which also starred Roger Moore and Milena Zupančič, and she has her own lingerie brand, Rebeka's Dream, and a perfume, MySpirit by Rebeka. She married her long-time partner Sandi Škaler on 18 June 2011; they live in Brežice and have two daughters.