Sergej Ćetković (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Сергеј Ћетковић, pronounced [sěrɡeːj tɕêtkoʋitɕ]; born 8 March 1976) is a Montenegrin recording artist. He lives and works in the Serbian capital of Belgrade.[1] Ćetković represented Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014.

Sergej Ćetković
Сергеј Ћетковић
Sergej Ćetković in 2014
Sergej Ćetković in 2014
Background information
Birth nameSergej Ćetković
Born (1976-03-08) 8 March 1976 (age 48)
Titograd, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia
GenresPop, adult contemporary
OccupationSinger
InstrumentVocals
Years active1998–present
LabelsGoraton
Websitesergejcetkovic.me
Sergej Ćetković presenting himself, 2014.

Biography

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Early life

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Sergej Ćetković was born in Podgorica, SR Montenegro, Yugoslavia on 8 March 1976.

Career

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He made his first contact with music when he was only seven years old. His first appearance was as a member of the youngest Montenegrin group at that time called Vatrena srca (Fiery hearts). He played piano and sang vocals. It was then when he felt the need to become a part of the professional musical life. He started his career as a singer in 1998 at the well known festival called Sunčane skale with the song Bila si ruža (You were a rose). Two years after his solo debut, he published his first CD called Kristina in December 2000. The CD was big success and young publishing company Goraton bought the copyrights from Pogorica's Hi-Fi centre and reprinted the CD with new label and started to sell it in all territories of former Yugoslavia.

Exactly two years after his first CD, he published his second CD called Budi mi voda (Be my water) in December 2002 with 12 new songs with the company Goraton. In 2003 he participated at Budva's festival (Budvanski festival) with the song Postojim i ja which won the best arrangement award. In 2005, Goraton published his The Best Of compilation.

After this, Sergej presented to the media his third CD called Kad ti zatreba with 10 new songs. The most popular song from this last album is called Pogledi u tami.

In year 2007, he had an extremely successful tour throughout Serbia and Montenegro, which was completely sold out, and for every town, additional evenings had to be scheduled. Such success was unexpected by, perhaps, everyone. The biggest hit of the tour was the song Pogledi u tami.

On 19 November 2013, Ćetković was chosen to represent Montenegro at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 with the song Moj svijet.[2] He qualified from the first semi-final and represented Montenegro in the final on 10 May, a first time that Montenegro participated in the final. In the end, he scored 37 points, placing 19th out of 26 countries.

Discography

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Compilations

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  • The Best Of... (2005)
  • Sergej Live (2006)
  • Balade (2011)

Soundtrack

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References

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  1. ^ "Puls - Ono što niste znali". www.pulsonline.rs. Archived from the original on 22 January 2011.
  2. ^ Montenegro: Sergej Ćetković to Copenhagen Archived 2 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine, esctoday.com
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Awards and achievements
Preceded by Serbian Oscar Of Popularity
The Male Pop Singer of the Year

2011
Succeeded by
None
Preceded by Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest
2014
Succeeded by