Tose proeski biography of donald

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Every nation in the world has its pop stars these days, even Wales. Since the explosion of music television in the 1980s musical ability has often taken a back-seat to the marketable, to the beautiful. Aesthetics have become every bit as important as talent, if not more so. Superstars have been born, and superstars have been created. This superstar-adoration inevitably leads to people from faraway lands being compared to some of the most historic stars from the west, such as the Elvis of the So and So, the Cliff Richard of that place there. The man who the BBC described as the Elvis of the Balkans was probably closer to being the Cliff Richard of the Balkans, and was a man with a typically tragic story. His life ended when he was just 26-years-old. This man was called Toše Proeski.

Toše Proeski was born in Prilep and grew up in Kruševo, as part of an Aromanian family. The Aromanians are an ethnic group native to the southern Balkans, ironically the entire historical lands of Macedonia (Northern Greece, Bulgaria, FYROM). They surprisingly speak Aromanian, a Latin-derived language not too far away from Romanian, and whilst they make up less than 1% of the entire Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia they actually make up 20% of Kruševo’s population. Long story short, Proeski w