Aleksandar Belov

Background

Aleksandar Belov was born in Macedonian Negotino.

Education

He was the favorite during the whole show, and among 13 gala nights he was chosen for the student with most votes, but in the end he finished as a second runner-up. He finished primary musical school in Negotino where he learned to play the violin.

Career

Aleksandar Belov participated in the Macedonian Eurovision song contest in February. He continued his musical education in Bitola. Belov plays the violin and the flute.

In 2003, when he was 16, he participated in a teen festival called "Megabit" in Bitola with the song "Solzi i taga (Tears and Sadness)".

In his teenage career he recorded several songs: "Rana (Wound)", " Sedumnaeset (Seventeen)" et cetera Although he obviously was musically talented, he wasn"t very successful so he did other jobs, but he still didn"t neglect music and he played with his band in clubs all over Macedonia.

Most of the time he worked in betting offices in Macedonia. In 2008 he decided to change his way of life and begin working with music, so he applied as a candidate for the show Aleksandar applied for the show and was accepted.

He was one of the sixteen candidates chosen on the node gala night, due to his and Karolina Goceva"s brilliant interpretation of her song "Se lazam sebe (Lying to myself)", which was a dream come true for him.

During the other gala nights, he was honored to sing with some other major stars of the Balkan music scene. He was chosen as a crowd favourite in 13 out of 13 gala nights. The scandal made by the Croatian Nova television put a big shadow of disgrace over the show.

Namely, Nina Petković"s voting number (the Montenegrin contestant in the show) was written both for hers and Aleksandar"s name.

Thus, all of the votes sent to him from the Croatian audience (which should not be underestimated because a great number of his supporters are from Croatia) went to Nina. After the show, Aleksandar made jokes about this saying that he would have given her those votes himself.

After the end of the show, Aleksandar applied for the Macedonian Eurovision song contest in 2009. The song "Zastani, solzi izbrisi (Stop, Wipe your tears)" was chosen for him by the Emotion production and was made by the famous Macedonian composer Grigor Koprov.

Although he finished the competition as 8th overall his song became very popular.

The audience showed great admiration and support for this young man after the three humanitarian concerts which he participated in.

Achievements

• However he did not win in the end, and he became the second runner-up. Although he did not win, a large audience from all the parts of former Yugoslavia believes that this charismatic young man will have a successful career. On 28 February, Aleksandar Belov received the 2008 Bubamara best newcomer award.