Tea Tairović (Serbian Cyrillic: Tea Таировић; born 4 April 1996), is a Serbian singer and songwriter. She released her debut single “Da si moj” in 2014, and later in 2015, she gained fame participating in the tenth season of the televised singing competition Zvezde Granda, where she entered the finals. She rose to prominence with her song "Hajde" in 2021, while the following year she released her debut studio album, Balkanija.[1][2]
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| Born | (1996-04-26) 26 April 1996 (age 26) Novi Sad, FR Yugoslavia |
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| Years active | 2014–present |
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Tea Tairović was born on 26 April 1996 in Novi Sad, FR Yugoslavia. Her mother, Božica Malević, worked as a TV presenter and her father, Zoran Tairović, is an academic painter.[3][4]
Tairović released her first single called "Da si moj" in 2014, however, the song did not meet with public reactions, until she appeared at the singing competition show "Zvezde Granda". She sang songs by Severina, Ana Nikolić, Tijana Dapčević, Jelena Karleuša, Aleksandra Radović, Nina Badrić and others. In the final, she sang the song "Ti neznaš kako je" by Nina Badrić and "Plamen od ljubavi" by Colonia. She did not make it to the superfinals, but the production gave her a recording of the song called "Karakerna osobina", which was also the second song in her career.
In November 2016, she released her third single "Meni Odgovara". The single "Igračica" which saw the light of day in April next year. With this song, she successfully started the year in which five more of her songs were released. The song "Nevolja" was written and produced by the Bosnian duo Buba Corelli and Jala Brat, and judging by the reactions of listeners on social networks, Tea is gaining more popularity with each new song. In June 2017, she recorded a song with Šaban Šaulić called "Od kad tebe znam". In September 2017, she published the duet song "Idu dani", which she recorded with the rapper Premil Jovanović best known as Rimski. The music and lyrics are signed by Rimski and Filip Mladenović. She recorded the song "Drama" with the Macedonian folk singer Menil Velioski, which is different from everything she has shown so far. Towards the end of the year, Tea released her first ballad "I u dobu i u zlu", where her singing abilities came to the fore. Tea published an energetic duet with her colleague Ivana Krunić called "Brat na brata" before the summer of 2018. A couple of months later, she released a duet with DJ Schonet called "Medicament".
She released song called "Polako" in January 2019. She premiered this single in the show "Zvezde Granda Special" which is specific in that she herself wrote music and lyrics.[5] In March 2019, she released song "Mala" in collaboration with rapper Tozla. Same year she published four more songs, two of which were duets. In April 2020, she released single "Svetica". In January next year, comes to a turning point in her career when she releases the song "Hajde", which quickly won the entertainment air and was declared a "Summer hit of 2021". Tea co-written the lyrics for the song with Serbian singer and songwriter Sanja Vučić, and later became her first song to chart on Billboard's newly introduced Croatia Songs chart. In September of that year she held a successful American Tour. Followed by Tea's next song "Na jednu noć", which also became popular in a very short time, and also reached on Billboard's Croatia Songs chart, becoming her second song on the chart.[6]
Zvezde Granda (2015); contestant (finalist)