Nemeš


Nikola Nemešević, who is better known by his stage name, Nemeš, is a Serbian singer-songwriter and 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 Marijana Čvrljak Kovačević, one of the contestants.
In 2016, they got married but divorced a year later.

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 called 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. 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.

Radio

In 2017. he started working on the TDI Radio Belgrade