Slaven Knezović

Slaven Knezović is a singer-songwriter, composer and violinist from Montenegro; the country's public broadcaster RTCG calls him a Montenegrin singer-songwriter. He writes and sings pop songs and ballads, and the violin is at the heart of much of his music.

His best-known work as a composer is "Zauvijek moja", with lyrics by Milan Perić, sung by the band No Name. The song won Evropesma-Europjesma, the joint selection of Serbia and Montenegro, in Podgorica on 4 March 2005, and at the Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv that May it finished seventh with 137 points. In the same season he stood on the stage of Montevizija 2005 himself with "Plaćam te životom ljepoto" and finished 13th. Years later he recorded "Zauvijek moja" again as a violin instrumental with an official video.

In 2017 he released a video for "Od luke do luke", which had its premiere at a solo concert marking 25 years of his career. The lyrics are by Momčilo Zeković, the bassist of Perper, the arrangement by Mihailo Radonjić, and the song was recorded at the M-Sound studio in Podgorica.

He has also sung at Ohrid Fest in North Macedonia: the duet "Amajlija" in 2020 and "More nije dalo" in 2021. Other songs on his channel include "Zavedi me", "Tijana", "Zemljo moja" and "Ruža uvela", a duet with Maja Odžaklievska.

In 2025 he released the album Za sva vremena, with songs such as "Crna Goro zemljo mila", "Igra" and "Nostalgija", and presented it at a solo concert at the Barski ljetopis festival in Bar, accompanied by the pianist Ana Vukazić, with Dejan Škuletić as music producer. On 13 July 2025 he released an instrumental version of "Goro moja", the song by Perper with music by Nikola Radunović, recorded at Škuletić's Komete studio and filmed among Montenegrin landscapes. In May 2026 he gave a solo concert at the Royal Theatre Zetski dom in Cetinje.