Zeljko Joksimovic was born on 20 April 1972 in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia, and grew up in the city of Valjevo.
Zeljko’s first international success came at the age of 12, when he won the title of First Accordion of Europe at the prestigious music festival in Paris.
He graduated from the Music University in Belgrade and launched his professional music career in 1997.
In 1998 he won a contest at the Pjesma Mediterana festival with the song "Pesma Sirena", which led to opportunities to perform at more prestigious festivals in Belarus. The Serbian musician won the "Grand-Prix" award at two festivals in that country.
Zeljko is multi-lingual, being fluent in Greek, English, Russian, Polish and French as well as his native language of Serbian.
Serbia and Montenegro, sending an entrant for the first time to 2004 Eurovision Song Contest, decided on their representative through Evropesma 2004, a music festival and contest in Serbia and Montenegro. Joksimovic won the contest with "Lane Moje", composed by Zeljko himself, along with lyricist Leontina Vukomanovic.
In the semi-final, Joksimovic placed first. However, in the final he placed second behind Ukrainian singer Ruslana, but did win "The Macel Bezencon Press award" (Best Composer Award). "Lane Moje" was the best selling single in Serbia and Montenegro and other parts of Europe for many months.
Studio albums
1999 Amajlija [City Records]
2001 Vreteno [City Records]
2002 111 [City Records]
2005 IV [City Records]
2009 Ljubavi [Minacord]
Live albums
2008 Zeljko Joksimovic - Beogradska Arena Live [Minacord Records]
Compilations
2004 Zeljko Joksimovic - Leđa o leđa [City Records]
2004 Zeljko Joksimovic - Lane moje CD+DVD [PGP RTS]
2004 Zeljko Joksimovic - Lane moje/Goodbye (maxi-single) [Warner Music Group]
2005 Zeljko Joksimovic & Tamee Harrison - I live my life for you [Warner Music]
2007 Zeljko Joksimovic - Devojka [Minacord]
2007 Zeljko Joksimovic - Nije do mene [Minacord]
2008 Zeljko Joksimovic - Ono nase sto nekad bejase [Minacord]
Duets
2005 "Ivkova slava", (Zeljko Joksimovic, Jelena Tomasevic & Nikola Kojo) [Minacord - City Records]
2009 "Ranjeni Orao" [Minacord - City Records]
