Tajči

Tajči

Tajči at St. Jerome's Church in Chicago, 2006

Tajči at St. Jerome's Church in Chicago, 2006
Background information
Birth name Tatjana Matejaš
Also known as Tajči
Born (1970-07-01) 1 July 1970
Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, today Croatia Croatia
Genres Pop, rock, singer/ songwriter, spiritual
Occupation(s) Singer
Instruments piano, guitar, vocal
Years active 1987–present
Labels Jugoton
City Records
Alka Records

Tajči Cameron (/ˈtaɪtʃi/; Croatian pronunciation: [tǎjtʃi]; born Tatjana Matejaš, pronounced [tǎtjana mǎtejaʃ], on 1 July 1970 in Zagreb) is an award winning singer, TV show host, published author, HuffingtonPost blogger and Certified Holistic Life Coach.

Career

As a pop star in the former Yugoslavia in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Tajči won the national selection of RTV Zagreb, SR Croatia and represented Yugoslavia at the Eurovision Song Contest 1990. The contest was held at Zagreb and she sang the song Hajde da ludujemo (Let's go crazy!). Her Yugoslav music career was cut short by the breakup of Yugoslavia and subsequent war.

She left Croatia in 1992 and a year later graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York. She appeared in numerous off Broadway productions and landed a lead role in "Miracle of Christmas" a mega-production at Sight and Sound Theatre, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. During her time in New York, she was signed by Camile Barbone and produced "Age of Love" CD recorded at Long View Farms Studio.

In 1994, she returned to Croatia and starred in a production of Kiss Me Kate by Croatian National Theatre, Rijeka. She moved to Los Angeles in 1997 seeking to expand her performing skills through television and film. She continued her musical theater career with roles in Brigadoon produced by Starlight Theatre in San Diego and The Phantom of the Opera at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse.

In 1997-98, she produced a series of benefit concerts at the Sacred Heart Retreat House in Alhambra, California, where she met Matthew Cameron, whom she married in 2000. She ended up performing music in Roman Catholic churches while auditioning for roles, some of which she turned down because they required nudity.

In late 2004, she and her family relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio, a more central location for her heavy touring schedule with concerts. In 2011, Yamaha Entertainment Group produced a remake of her mega-hit from the 1990s "Dvije zvjezdice". She released an indie pop album Awaken in 2013 on which she collaborated with Bryan Lennox, a Grammy Award-winning producer.

Tajči wrote a full-length musical, My Perfectly Beautiful Life, which was produced by Cincinnati Playwright Initiative at the Jarson-Kaplan Theatre in February 2010.

Tajci, her husband and their three children relocated to Franklin, Tennessee in 2014, the same year she started producing and hosting TV show "Waking Up in America" and in 2015 founded Waking Up Revolution, a multi platform brand offering tools to transform lives and inspire a positive change in the world.

Other

She is a certified Holistic Life Coach through Radiant Health Institute, certified as 65 hours of Approved Coach Specific Training Hours by the International Coach Federation.

Family

Tajči's sister is Croatian-American actress and singer Sanja Matejaš, known as Sanya Mateyas.

Discography

External links

Wikinews has related news: Interview with Tajči in the run-up to Eurovision 2009
Preceded by
Riva		 Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest
1990 		Succeeded by
Bebi Dol
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