She’s back! Eurovision 2008 star Tamara Todevska will represent FYR Macedonia again at Eurovision 2019 in Tel Aviv.
In an interview at the public television, it was revealed that Tamara will fly the Macedonian flag in Tel Aviv. But she hinted at something on her instagram account minutes before…
Tamara Todevska has a long musical career and a just as lengthy relationship with Eurovision. Back in 2008, she fronted her country’s entry together with Vrcak and Adrijan Gaxha.
While “Let Me Love You” finished tenth in the Belgrade’s contest semi-final, they didn’t make the final asthe juries gave their wildcard to Sweden’s Charlotte Perrelli instead.
Tamara, Vrcak and Adrian – “Let Me Love You” live at Eurovision 2008
That’s not the only time when Tamara has been involved with the Macedonian entry. She first appeared at Eurovision in 2004, when she did backing vocals for the late Toše Proeski with “That’s Life”. The entry placed 14th in the grand final.
Most recently, in 2014, she provided backing vocals for her sister, Tijana Dapčević. While the entry had some fan support, it failed to qualify for the final.
So Tel Aviv will be Tamara’s fourth Eurovision experience, although that could have happened five years earlier. Tamara competed in Skopje Festival 2014, where her song “Brod što tone” won the jury vote but placed second overall to Daniel Kajmakovski‘s “Lisja esenski” (aka “Autumn leaves”).
Tamara Todevska – “Brod sto tone” live at Skopje Fest 2014
Besides Eurovision, Tamara Todevska remains a popular recording artist back home. Some months ago she released her last solo single, “Doviduvanje Tago“, and just last week she dropped “Ljubov“, a collaboration with Guru Hare.
As for the song that Tamara will be singing in Tel Aviv, it won’t be revealed until a later date.
Knowing so much about an artist’s background, one could try to guess how the entry will be, but Ms Todevska has done everything at Eurovision, from power ballads to a mix of pop and hip hop or providing the backing vocals of a pop-dance entry. Anything can come from Skopje, y’all!
Do you think FYR Macedonia has made a wise choice? Will Tamara be more lucky than in her previous attempts? What do you expect from her song? Will her sister Tijana return the favour and provide her backing vocals? Will FYR Macedonia finally qualify? Tell us in the comment section below!
they should have kept their jesc entry doma for her.
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This time a have great feelings about Macedonia. She can sing and Brod sto tone was staged well. What can go wrong? Yes i know a lot when its Macedonia but i hope they have changed HOD this year 🙂
I hope she gets her revenge. She was robbed in 2008.
Let me love you was on my Top 10 and should’ve qualified. I hope her new song is the same quality and she’s luckier this time.
There’s a little mistake: The title of Toše Proeski’s entry was just “Life”.
Every time that I listen to this song, I have to think of this great singer who tragically passed away far too early…
Me too. I love Life, it’s such an uplifting song. But at the same time, it’s really sad listen to Tose singing about enjoy your life knowing he passed away so young.
FYR Macedonia is now North Macedonia.
Are you sure? There was really big riots in Greece about that i heard on the news
Yup, we changed the name to North Macedonia now officially. Regardsss! Hope Tamara will do good this year!
Can’t say I am happy with this choice. Eurovision has changed a lot since 2008, so a dance bop rarely works and sometimes seems dated!
So you dont think artists change their style? All artists do once in a while..
It is not about her. It is about the song and the staging. I mean they really wasted two excellent songs in the past 2 years, so…..
Oh yes! Bash Ne Tebe is a B O P!!!! And Bros Sto Tone is beautiful! Cannot wait for North Macedonia’s song, and one big positive, SHE CAN SING LIVE!!! THANK THE GODS!
“Let me Love You” was a bop, still good! Messy performance though..
Could work for a second time, providing Macedonia has hired someone experienced in pulling off great staging. All of their performances are …disappointing..
I’m watching the contest since 2016 so I had to check her 2008 entry. The song is really good, but the performance looks kinda messy. I don’t like her dress. But she’s got a very beautiful voice so that’s something to look forward to. I hope that her 2019 entry will be in Macedonian. Good luck. 🙂
That’s Macedonia’s problem. They always have amazing songs, but they mess up the staging basically every year
Good choice. Nice to see a returnee as well. 🙂
In that case you might also want to call the Netherlands ‘The Netherlands’, cause right now you have it listed as just ‘Netherlands’.
Will she sing a ballad? I would like a song similar to JESC’s Doma. Also a staging like it.
Two returnees already known for Tel Aviv, which were really close to making the final in the years they participated in. I think she could really make it through, if given a song like Brod Što Tone. I felt like Let me love you was great and I love the song, but something slow-tempo would be better for her. AND PLEASE MACEDONIA DON’T F*CK UP THE STAGING, AGAIN. YOU WERE ON THE RIGHT TRACK IN JESC 2018, BUT WERE ROBBED, SO DON’T GIVE UP AND KEEP GOING.
They better give her a song like Brod Sto Tone. She would have done Macedonia so proud of she made it to Eurovision that year.
(officially from 2 hours ago)
*North Macedonia
Btw there’s now even a meme song about it, well known everywhere in Greece xD
P.S. f nationalism
Omg I bought her CD when I visited Macedonia two years ago, TALENT!
Wow! I was expecting Antonia Gigovska since she was all but set to go last year, but this is good news too! Love her voice
Slight correction: Autumn Leaves was 2015.
Looking forward to the entry – Macedonia always bring quality!
No the NF that autumn leaves won was in late 2014 so it was 2014
Also: Brod shto tone would have done MUCH MUCH better than Autumn leaves. That was a class act.
Great news!! Always wanted to have her alone.
Will EBU show Macedonia as ‘North Macedonia’ or do they keep it “FYR Macedonia” like they did with Czechia?
I will be honest, while it is going to take some getting used to, I actually like North Macedonia better because it is long overdue for a name change for Macedonia. Saying former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia is a real mouthful and it’s been almost thirty years since Macedonia broke away from Yugoslavia so it’s time.
im 100% sure greeks will write on the macedonian song even if they changed name to northern Greece. We will see. Greeks like to fight
Great choice! She’s a good singer. Will we see North Macedonia with this name in Tel Aviv?
yes Northern Macedonia in Western Israel
Great choice. 🙂 Give em hell, Tamara! “Let Me Love You” is one of my all time favorite Eurovision songs, even more the original Macedonian version. Unbelievable how those tasteless juries STOLE her spot in the final and gave it to that robot. Tamara has the potential to deliver something truly great, if she gets a good song from her usual songwriters and does NOT (!!!) take example of her sister’s poor showing of 2014, which I realize she was part of, but oh well. I think she was also a backing vocalist for Tose Proeski in 2004.
She has a good voice and I believe that she’s capable of making Macedonia finally qualify. I just hope she won’t be another victim of bad staging – they have a lot of time, they can figure it out.
Could be really good
I hope she sings in Macedonian
Technically she would’ve qualified thanks to the televote. Let’s hope she does it for real this time! I think she’s a good choice.
Good luck!!! I hope she gets a better song this year.
I wonder, since the name of the country just changed, will they change it in eurovision too?
I don’t expect so since the juridical details about the name change might take quite some time until after eurovision.
I just hope they get used to actually using the full name “North Macedonia” as a minimum form of respect to us Greeks (btw nationalists got preeety angry today :p )
Nah, they don’t owe you anything. If anything, this 27-year dispute has made Greece look petty as hell.
Well that was salty :p If they tried to claim your history, you should do nothing and just accept it. That’s not the case with Greeks. And people who don’t live in any of these two countries, expressing opinions like they really knew what was going on, makes me cringe actually.
Respect? Don’t be ridiculous… all this silliness just because of a name is just an example of why the world is in such a messy state. Too many human egos acting in a primitive manner…
Exciting! Hopefully Andrea from 2009, Andras frol 2014, Mørland from 2015 and Sandra from 2009 all show up in Tel Aviv
This is pretty exciting. This time around, please just…chill a bit with the staging.