Tijana Dapčević

Tijana Dapčević is a Macedonian and Serbian pop singer, born Tijana Todevska on 3 February 1976 in Skopje. Her father, Velko Todevski, is a music teacher, and her younger sister Tamara Todevska is a singer too. Tijana graduated from the Faculty of Music Arts in Skopje in 1999. In the second half of the 1990s she sang at Makfest in Štip with songs such as "Ostavi me" and "Za tebe živeam", and in 1997 she appeared at Skopje Fest in a duet with her sister, "Igra luda".

In 2001 she married Milan Dapčević, a Serbian businessman, and she has since lived in Serbia, recording for the Serbian label City Records. Her first album, Kao da..., came out in 2001, the year she sang "Stepski vuk" at Sunčane skale in Herceg Novi. A year later she won that festival with "Negativ", composed by Darko Dimitrov, the title song of her second album Negativ (2002). In 2004 she released Zemlja mojih snova, sang on "Kiša" by Gru, and took third place at the Budva festival with "Ne daj".

Her best-known song came in 2005, when she won the Music Festival Budva with "Sve je isto, samo njega nema", written by Dragan Brajović Braja, with verses in several languages of the former Yugoslavia. It was later recorded in Polish by Natasza Urbańska as "Mała". In 2006 she won the Serbian Radio Festival with "Julijana" and sang "Greh", fourth at Beovizija and eighth with 27 points at the Evropesma final. "Greh" went onto her album Žuta minuta, released in the summer of 2007. That year she also came second at Vrnjačka Banja with "Plamen stare ljubavi" and won the first season of the dance show Plesom do snova with Vojislav Kaluđerović.

In 2008 she sang "Pogrešan čovek" at Pjesma Mediterana in Budva; Lidija Bačić later recorded it in Croatian as "Krivi čovjek". Her fifth album, Muzika, followed in 2010, and a Platinum Collection compilation in 2011.

On 28 August 2013 Macedonian Radio Television chose Tijana Dapčević to represent Macedonia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen. Her song "To the Sky", written by Darko Dimitrov, Lazar Cvetkoski and Elena Risteska and also recorded in Macedonian as "Tamu kaj što pripagjam", was sung in the second semi-final on 8 May 2014, with Tamara among the backing vocalists. It placed 13th with 33 points and did not reach the final.

She has kept entering festivals since. With the group Vokal 5 she won Proleće u Beogradu in 2014 with "Kišobran", and at Serbia's Pesma za Evroviziju she placed 11th in 2022 with "Ljubi, ljubi doveka" and sang "Mamim" in 2023. She has also acted, playing Ula Buzalevska in the Macedonian TV series Prespav, and has voiced characters in Serbian dubs of films such as Rio 2, Coco and Hotel Transylvania 3. Her newer singles include "Slepa ljubav" (2021) and "Najskuplja" (2025).