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
Genres	Pop, rock, church music
Occupation(s)	Singer
Instruments	guitar, vocal
Years active	1988–
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 a Croatian singer; she has since taken up citizenship and residence in the United States.

Career

As a pop star in the former Yugoslavia in the late 1980s and early 1990s, she 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 her homeland in 1992 and pursued a career in stage musicals. She ended up in the United States, seeking television and recording work in the Los Angeles area. There 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.

They eventually relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio, which was a more central location for her new focus in church music.

Her independently released audio CD Awaken is her latest work.

She has also written a musical which is scheduled to debut at the Jarson-Kaplan Theatre in Cincinnati in February 2010. She is sister of Croatian-American actress and singer Sanya Mateyas. Tajči is mother of three sons.

Discography

• Hajde da ludujemo (1990)
• Bube u glavi (1991)
• Struggles & Graces (1997)
• Now and Forever (2000)
• Emmanuel – The Story of Christmas (2002)
• Let It Be – Mary's Story (2003)
• I Thirst (2004)
• Zlatna kolekcija (2004)
• A Chance to Dream (2006)
• Need A Break (2008)
• All american (1991)
• The best of Tajči (1992)
• The love collection (2011)
• Taichi Eqinocij (1997)
• God bless America (2010)
• Dell'aurora tu sorgi piu bella (2011)
• VHS Bube u glavi (1991)
• AWAKEN (2014)

External links

• (English) Cincinnati Enquirer: From pop stardom to an inner light
• (Croatian) "Nisam požalila prekid karijere"
• (English) Official site

Preceded by Riva

Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990

Succeeded by Bebi Dol