page_title: Marija Ugrica
section_title: Junior Eurovision and FeDemus
hierarchical_section_title: Marija Ugrica / Music career / Junior Eurovision and FeDemus
caption_attribution_description: English: Marija Ugrica with dancers in green room of Serbian national final for JESC 2009.
context_page_description: Marija Ugrica is a pop singer well known by her strong live performances and YouTube music covers. She has won numerous awards for her songs and performances in the country and abroad.
context_section_description: Marija started her professional career in 2005, when she participated in the Serbian National Final for Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song Geografija. That was the first Serbian National Final for Junior Eurovision,and it was organised by Decji Kulturni Centar Beograd, like FeDemus is now, so Marija was given the song to sing it at competition. She didn't win, but the public remembered her voice and appearance. After that, she started to participate in many other festivals and competitions. Marija became a member of the RTS children choir.
  She participated at FeDemus, a competition for kids and their own songs in 2007,when she sang Zvezdana noć (a song by Filip Trajanovski), and in the next year, 2008, she won that contest as a solo participant with the beautiful ballad Noć puna zvezda. In the same year, she entered many other festivals. One of them was again the Serbian national final for Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008. She participated with Mateja Mihailović, also a member of the choir, with the song Istina je. They finished in 2nd place.
  From 2005 to 2009, she won many awards as a singer and pianist. Some of them are Zlatna sirena 2005–2009, Talenti Vračara 2006–2008, and many others. Marija decided to participate in the National Final for Junior Eurovision again, so she sent the song Hajde da sanjamo to concours, and she was selected with nine other competitors by the music committee of RTS. Unfortunately, she got sick two days before the contest. She could not even talk or sing, but she decided to participate anyway. Marija finished in 8th place.
  Marija sent one of the songs she made for National final 2009 to FeDemus 2009. The song is called Ljubav opet dobija and it is a R'n'B ballad. The organisors gave Marija a duet partner,17 years old Filip Trajanovski,well-known participant of Serbian national finals and FeDemus, and Serbian teen rap musician, also known as Phil:T. The contest was held on October 2009. Marija and Filip,who got seek on the day of contest and was not present on the stage,won that contest sharing the first place with another girl.
  The next year, 2010, Marija decided not to participate at National Final for Junior Eurovision, but anyway she did perform on that stage again, as a part of children choir who sang the back vocals for the group Ništa Lično (Serbian representatives at Junior Eurovision 2009, performing their song Onaj Pravi.
  The fourth year in a row, Marija sent one of her songs to FeDemus. As she was then 15 going on 16, she participated as the interval act. Her song, Sve pesme poklanjam tebi, was originally composed as a strong pop ballad, but later on it was converted to strong pop/rock ballad with some computer instruments in its instrumental. The song was awarded for the best music and lyrics.
  In 2011, Marija performed Neću da stanem at FeDemus in a duet. She stated that her final appearance at that music festival would be in its 2012 edition.
  Marija submitted two of her songs to FeDemus 2012 concourse, one as a singer-songwriter, and the other one as complete author. She performed Novi dan in interval act of festival and was playing piano during Lazar Vujanić's performance of her song Pored tebe. The song Novi dan was meant to be a turning point in her music career, as she had stated that it would be her last song at FeDemus and that after its 2012 edition she would devote herself to making music for teen and adult audience. In the lyrics, Marija says goodbye to kids' music and shares wonderful memories about her childhood and music.
caption: Marija Ugrica at Serbian National Final, Junior Eurovision 2009.
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