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Nikola Nemešević (born November 18, 1988), who is better known by his stage name, Nemeš, is a Serbian singer-songwriter and former media personality.
Biography
Personal life
Nemeš was born in Požarevac, Serbia to father Vojislav and mother Nada. He became known to wider audience in Balkans as the contestant of Big Brother where he fell in love and started a relationship with one of the contestants, Marijana Čvrljak.
Career
Early beginnings
Nemeš started playing piano and keyboards with several bands while he was still in high school. One of the bands he continued working with is a pop-rock band Bad Choice.
Classical education and opera
After graduating music high school in Požarevac, he enrolled in the University of Arts in Belgrade where he studied and graduated in Opera singing.His singing professors were primadona Radmila Smiljanić and Nikola Mijailović (singer). He took part in several international opera festivals, including Oper Oder-Spree in Beeskow, Germany and International Summer Music School Pučišća, Croatia.
2011: Znam taj smešak
In 2011. Nemeš released his first single called "Znam taj smešak". In less than a month, due to his participation in Big Brother and media exposure, the song gained over 1 million YouTube clicks. At the moment it has more than 3,000,000 views.
Current bands
He is currently performing with his band called Tregeri. Their repertoire is based on evergreen, jazz and swing music.
Collaborations
In 2011. he worked with DJ/Producer Ivan Schwartz on a remake version of "Apsolutno Tvoj", song originally sung by band "Mirzino Jato".
In 2014. he wrote and recorded a cheering anthem called "Idemo BRE", written for National Basketball Team of Serbia in collaboration with Marko Kon.
Media and TV
Dancing With the Stars
In 2014. Nemeš was one of participants in Serbian version of Dancing With the Stars. He remained in the competition for 5 weeks.
Men's Health
In 2010. he was featured on the cover of Men's health magazine, after he won the Men's health fitness challenge.