Elena Risteska was born at 27th of April 1986 in Skopje. From the early
ages of her life she was interested in music and drawing. Elena inherited
the music talent from her mother. In 1994 Elena joined KUD "Kocho
Racin" (club for folk dances and songs). Also, she sung a song
at her school in the "Young Imitators" show. Besides singing,
drawing and dancing, Elena was member of the drama club.
In 1996 for the first time she was at TV. That was at "Mak-Karaoke
Show" at "A1 TV" with the song "Flamingo".
The same year she started to take a course in English language, but
also in French. Elena started to sing in the school chorus and went
to Bulgaria at her first tour with the folk dances club.
In 1998 Elena took part in many competitions and won many local, national
and international prizes in drawing. Elena proved her talent in poetry
by one song of her, that won title the best and was published in children
newspaper "Our World" in 1999.
In 2000 Elena had tours to Turkey, Czech Republic and Bulgaria with
KUD "Kocho Racin". At this tours Elena took part in the folk
dances club, but also in the chorus. That year Elena was at one art
colony in Strumica, too.
At December 22nd 2002 Elena took part at talent search music competition
"Play - Search For A Star". She sang the song "The Other
Thing" and won this competition. Her song became big hit in Macedonia.
This was first serious step in the world of music for Elena. Her popularity
was rising day by day.
In July 2003 her debut album called "Day And Night" saw the
daylight. It helped Risteska to become popular not only in her native
Macedonia, but also in several Balkan countries.
In 2004 she took part in festival "Golden Stag" in Brashov,
Romania, and in 2005 at festival "Sunchane Skale" where she
performed "Ni na nebo, ni na zemja".
At 4th of March 2006 Republic of Macedonia selected its song for the
"Eurovision Song Contest 2006". "Ninanajna" is pop
song and contains elements of dance and orient music. She is currently
recording her second album, and studying Italian and Literature at university.
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