Jovan Jovanov

Jovan Jovanov
Јован Јованов
Also known asJay Jay
Born (1985-05-27) May 27, 1985 (age 39)
Skopje, SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia)
OriginNorth Macedonia
Genres
Occupation(s)Songwriter, music producer, audio engineer, singer
Years active1998–present
LabelsGlobal Music Entertainment, Jovanov Records
Websitewww.jovanjovanov.com

Jovan Jovanov (Macedonian: Јован Јованов) is a Macedonian-Canadian music producer, record engineer and songwriter of pop, R&B, house, and hip-hop. Now based in Toronto, Ontario, Jovanov is working with Canadian artists such as Alx Veliz, NorthSideBenji, Liron, and many others. Macedonian audience knows Jovanov as a singer and composer of many hit songs performed by artists such a Toše Proeski, Elvir Mekic, Adrian Gaxha, Слаткаристика, Toni Zen, Next Time and many others. Jovanov has composed, written, and produced over 700 songs and received many awards and acknowledgments. Internationally his hits have over 200 million views on YouTube.[1][2][3][4][5]

He represented Macedonia as songwriter on the Eurovision song contest in 2004 (song "Life" for Toše Proeski)[6] and in 2009 (song "Nešto što ḱe ostane" for Next Time),[7] and on the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2008 (song "Prati Mi SMS" for Bobi Andonov). He also arranged Vlatko Ilievski's song for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011.[8][9]

Jovanov has won three first prizes on the Macedonian festival MakFest, with his compositions "Magija", performed by the music group Magija (1998), "Ti me sakash", performed by Jovan Jovanov and Maja Sazdanovska (2005),[10] and "Ne planiram", performed by Lambe Alabakovski (2010).[11] He has also won two second prizes on MakFest for the compositions "300 godini", performed by Adrian Gaxha (2005) and "Bez tebe tivko umiram", performed by Next time (2008). Moreover, he is the winner of third prizes for the compositions "Da te vidam pak", performed by Jovan Jovanov (2003), "Se na svoe mesto", performed by Zoran Stamenkovski (2006) and "Nekade posle 2" performed by Elvir Mekic (2007).[12]

  1. ^ "Tose Proeski - North Macedonia - Istanbul 2004".
  2. ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 2022 news by esctoday - Turin Italy". Archived from the original on 24 February 2009.
  3. ^ "Македонска Музичка Мрежа". www.mmm.com.mk. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Jovan Jovanov I Toni Zen". Top50songs.org.
  5. ^ "Slatkaristika".
  6. ^ www.eurovision.tv http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/by-year/contest?event=8/. Retrieved 27 December 2014. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)[title missing]
  7. ^ About Next Time Archived 27 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine Eurovision, 12 May 2009. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  8. ^ About Vlatko Ilievski Archived 27 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine Eurovision, 12 May 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  9. ^ "Јован Јованов демантира: Нема да правам трета песна за Евровизија".
  10. ^ "Досегашни Победници".
  11. ^ "Ламбе Алабаковски победи на Макфест".
  12. ^ "МАКФЕСТ – Фестивал на забавни мелодии МАКФЕСТ – ШТИП".