| Martin Vuvic
Martin was born on 7 August 1982 in Skopje, FYR Macedonia. Grandson of the late Pece Atanasoski,one of the world’s most famous bagpipe players, Martin quickly showed that he had inherited the samepassion for music.
His first contact with music was at the age of three when he started to play the drums. He firstperformed in front of an audience at a concert by the popular Macedonian group ‘Tavce Gravce’. As aseven-year old he landed a part in a children’s festival for new music called ‘Pletenka’. As a solo artisthe won second prize. He continued his education in a primary school for music, graduating withhonours. In the meantime he joined the youth theatre playing a role in the show ‘Memories in TheNight’ by Bonjo Lungov.
At secondary school he was a member of the percussion section.
It was during this period that he became a drummer for the group ‘Arija’ – he first began to composemusic as part of this group. He went on to enter the Music Academy as an extremely popularpercussionist. Martin then started his solo carrier as a vocalist. He received numerous prizes andexcellent reviews.
Martin is currently a senior at the Music Academy in Skopje, and one of the most popularly ratedartistes on the FYR Macedonian and Balkan music scene.
His achievements so far:
With the song ‘Rano mi e da se vrzam’ at ‘Ohrid fest’ he won second place, the same song was the'Most Popular Song of the Year 2002' in the Republic of Macedonia.
At the Budva 2002 festival (Serbia and Montenegro) he won the prize awarded by journalists andcritics.
He was 'Discovery of the Year 2002' in Serbia and Montenegro, winning an album contract with BKSound.
He was also 'Discovery of the Year 2002' in FYR Macedonia.
He won the Interpretation Award at 'Mak fest' for the song ‘Harem’.
He won the Journalists’ 'Award for Most Successful Song' at the International festival in Zrenjanin(S&MN).
He was a Grand Prix winner at Ohrid fest 2003.
In 2003 he came 3rd in the ‘International Evening’.
He won 2nd place in the International Festival in Banja Luka B&H in 2003.
He came 3rd at a major festival in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
He came second at the International Percussion Contest in Sofia (Bulgaria), performing with his classfrom the music academy.
He won a Grand Prix at the Radiski Festival in Zenica (B&H) 2004.
He was 'Singer of the Year 2004' in FYR Macedonia and also won 'Duet of the Year'.
He has been invited to appear on one of Turkey’s most popular TV shows. In Turkey he is known as‘Macedonian Tarkan’.
He has been selected as an exclusive star for CITY RECORDS.
In 2004 he produced his second album, ‘MUZA’.
And of course he will be representing his country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song‘Make My Day’.
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