Jovan Jovanov

Jovan Jovanov known as Jay Jay, is a Macedonian-Canadian songwriter, composer, and producer of pop, R&B, house, hip-hop.He is currently based in Toronto, Ontario and Los Angeles, California. His songs have represented Macedonia on the Eurovision Song Contest in 2004 and 2009, and on the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2007.He also arranged Vlatko Ilievski's song for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. 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), and "Ne planiram", performed by Lambe Alabakovski (2010).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). Jovanov has released over 500 compositions, and has stated that his goal is to popularize his work around the world.