Tanja Ribič

Tanja Ribič is a Slovenian actress and pop singer, born on 28 June 1968 in Trbovlje. She studied acting at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) in Ljubljana and has been a permanent member of the Ljubljana City Theatre (MGL) since 7 July 1992.

Her biggest moment as a singer came in 1997. With "Zbudi se", written by Saša Lošić of Plavi orkestar with words by Zoran Predin, she won the Slovenian selection EMA with 4,493 telephone votes, and at the Eurovision Song Contest she finished tenth with 60 points.

Two albums followed. Ko vse utihne (1999) included "Midva bi lahko", "Moja mala dlan" and "Waken now", and To je zdaj amore (2000) brought "Roža", "100 solzic" and "Spomni se". Music videos were made for "Zbudi se", "Za vsako rano", "Brez tebe ne bi" and "Julija", and she also sang "Simpatija", "Jablana" and a version of "Mambo Italiano". She recorded duets with Pero Lovšin ("V dolini tihi") and with Saša Lošić ("Sinoči sem na vasi bil"), and the festive songs "Na božični večer" and "Novoletni objem". In 2018 she returned to EMA with the song "Ljudje".

On stage she has played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, for which she won the Dnevnik award in 1999, Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac and Irina in Three Sisters, and she won the award for best comic actress at the Days of Comedy in Celje in 1994. Television viewers know her as Magda Velepič in the Slovenian series Naša mala klinika and as Lili Muha in its Serbian version, and among her films are Halgato, No Man's Land and Traktor, ljubezen in rock'n'roll, for which she was named best actress at the Taormina film festival in 2008.

She co-hosted the Viktor awards in 1994 and 2001, sat on the jury of the first three seasons of Znan obraz ima svoj glas, and in 2016 gave her voice to Sina in the Slovenian version of Moana. She is married to the actor and director Branko Đurić Đuro, and they have two daughters.