Jovan Radomir (born 8 September 1963 in

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) is a Serbian-Swedish

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, best known for presenting music programmes for

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(SVT). His family's origin is

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. He has also worked as an actor, author and lyricist.

Early life

Radomir was born to an ethnic Serbian family and moved to Sweden as a child at the age of two, spending his childhood in

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before moving to Stockholm in the 1990s.

Television career

Since joining SVT, Radomir has mainly presented music programmes such as ''Voxpop'', ''Folktoppen'', ''Megadrom'', ''One Night with Elvis'', ''Hårdrocknatten'', and ''80 tals natten''. As an interviewer at Voxpop he got to interview the members of U2 as the only Swedish media during that stint in Sweden. He also during the same time presented the music show ''Musikbyrån'' at SVT. He has as well presented ''Folktoppen'', a chart show in 2005 at SVT along with Shirley Clamp and David Bexelius. In 2005, he along with Sveriges Radio presenter Håkan Persson presented a simultaneous broadcast between SVT and Sveriges Radio of

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's concert at

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. In 2007 he was part of a sports-panel at Sveriges Radios sport show ''Sportsnack''. He has also chaired interviews with artists such as

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, Destinys Child,

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and U2, and reported on the work of Swedish charity Världens Barn in

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and

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. He has also presented

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's coverage of the

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play-offs. He was one of the presenters for the Swedish broadcast of the Live Earth gala in 2007. Radomir has produced the documentary series ''Svenskarna i Guca'' (Swedes in Guca) for SVT, a documentary about the Roman band Süperstar Orkestar in southern Serbia. In 2016, Jovan produced a documentary about the irish rock legends -

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. In 2018, Jovan produced a three part roadmovie with his friend, the Swedish actor

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- A story about Olles roots in northern part of Sweden, ''När Olle mötte Sarri'' (In Swedish: "When Olle met Sarri"). In 2019, Jovan and Beppe Strabrink produced six TV travel stories for SVT TV-show ''Go´Kväll'' which was filmed on location in Serbia and Bosnia & Hercegovina.

Eurovision Song Contest

Radomir was the Swedish spokesperson at the Eurovision Song Contest in

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and 2006, announcing the results of the national televoting. When he presented the votes in 2004, he gave the points for

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in Serbian, while in 2006 he gave the points for

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in Serbian. In 2005, Radomir wrote the lyrics to the song "You're Gonna Get What You Deserve" performed by singer Nikita in the Bosnian national final for the

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. In 2008 and 2009, Radomir and Nina Radulovic presented the online show ''Eurovision Countdown'' which aired in 43 countries that participated in the Eurovision Song Contest. The show had approximately 200 million viewers. Radomir also wrote the lyrics to "Destiny", the

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translation of "

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" (Молитва), which would go on to win the 2007 contest. He has also released a self-titled remix of the song. Ahead of the 2015 contest, he helped Swedish artist

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to appear on ''

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'' a few days before the final. Radomir was announced on 21 January 2016 as host of the semi-final allocation draw for the 2016 contest, alongside

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. The draw was held on 25 January in

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and broadcast live on

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and the contest's official

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channel. Alongside Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson, he gave commentary on the red carpet event held on 8 May in front of

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preceding the opening ceremony in Stockholm City Hall. Radomir also hosted the press conferences for the contest. In 2020 and 2022, Jovan presented

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, the Serbian national final that select an artist for the Eurovision Song Contest, alongside Dragana Kosjerina, Kristina Radenković and Stefan Popović.

Filmography

Radomir played a border control officer in the 2002 movie ''Hundtricket – The Movie'', (

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: ''The Dog Trick)'' which also starred

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and

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. He also starred as a television presenter in an episode of the 2003 SVT drama ''Belinder auktioner'' (Swedish: ''Belinder Auctions'').

Bibliography

In 2011, Radomir published ''Mitt Balkan: mat och människor'' (Swedish: ''My Balkans: food and people''), a collection of some of his favourite Serbian dishes. In 2015, an English version of his first cookbook "Balkan - Food and people" was released. In 2019, Jovan Radomir published his second cookbook: "Balkan - mat, människor och minnen" ( Balkan - food, people and memories") A collection of his favourite Balkan dishes.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Radomir, Jovan Living people 1963 births Sveriges Television Swedish television hosts Swedish male film actors Swedish writers Swedish male songwriters Swedish people of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent Yugoslav emigrants to Sweden Eurovision Song Contest people Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina