Žanamari Lalić

Žanamari Perčić (ex Lalić) (born 8 September 1981) is a Croatian pop/pop-rock musician and singer-songwriter, also known as the first winner of Hrvatski idol, Croatian equivalent of Pop Idol, in 2004. In 2013 she participated as a star in the Croatian TV show Dancing With The Stars/Ples sa zvijezdama.

Žanamari was born and raised in Makarska. 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, a talent show by RTL Television.

After she won NOVA TV's talent show Hrvatski Idol, Croatian equivalent of the Pop Idol, 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 daš još samo jednu noć" and "Ljubav". She has competed in the HRT Dora Eurosong pre-selection in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Her first solo album Žanamari was released in 2005 by Croatia Records.

From 2008 to 2011 she toured with her supporting band Syndrome and also performed with Matija Dedić Electric Band.

In 2010 she formed a pop-rock band J'Animals. The group got its name from Žanamari’s pseudonym J’Animale.

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