Zanamari Percic

Zanamari Percic (née Lalic) is a Croatian recording artist, who rose to prominence in 2004 as the first winner of Hrvatski Idol (2004). After her initial rise to fame, she participated in various Croatian reality shows, including the 2013 release Ples sa zvijezdama (2006) and Tvoje lice zvuci poznato (2014). In 2001 she obtained a degree in management and moved to Germany, where she released a single "Feels like Heaven" in 2002. She also competed in Deutschland sucht den Superstar (2002), a talent show by RTL Television. After she won NOVA TV's talent show Hrvatski Idol (2004), she competed in Croatian music festivals, winning an award at Zadarfest 2004 for best performance and choreography. She was also in the Croatian Radio Festival 2005 with the single "Bar su suze besplatne", 2008 with "Bijela robinja" and 2009 with her most successful song "Crni leptire". In 2008 and 2010 she performed at CMC festival with singles "Da mi das jos samo jednu noc" and "Ljubav". She has competed in the HRT Dora Eurosong pre-selection in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Her first solo album "Zanamari" was released in 2005 by Croatia Records. From 2008 to 2011 she toured with her supporting band Syndrome and also performed with Matija Dedic Electric Band. In 2010 she formed a pop-rock band J'Animals. The group got its name from Zanamari's pseudonym J'Animale. Wanting to express herself not just as a vocalist but also as a songwriter in composing a new record she co-wrote the first couple of songs with producers Dejan Oreskovic and Igor Ivanovic in the spring of 2010. They released a video for their first single "Nije napola" in April 2011, then performed with their second single "Oteti pa vraceni" at CMC Festival in June 2011, and along with the third hit single "Kreten pomalo" that came out in November 2011, the new album "Druga vrsta" was released under Croatia Records. In June 2014 Zanamari married Mario Percic and changed her last name to Percic. In May 2015 their daughter Gabriela was born. After a short pregnancy leave in December 2015 Zanamari returned to her solo career with her new single "Tako blizu" as a part of the 63rd Zagrebacki festival and announced her new mainstream pop music era with a song "U ratu i ljubavi" feat. Aleksandra Kovac which hit half a million YouTube views. The video was produced by her own music and video production company V.R.H. Productions, with her husband Mario Percic as video director.