The life of Kaliopi Buklevska when she was a kid/teenager + SONG: UZMI ME

The biography from Kaliopi Buklevska when she was a kid and teenager
Биографија од Калиопи

The youngest child of three, born to Pande and Marija Bukleska a school teacher, Bukle was raised in Kičevo. Even though Bukle was born in a mixed Macedonian-Aromanian family, she cannot speak Aromanian. Bukle showed interest in music at a young age and in 1976, she entered in the Macedonian children's festival "Zlatno Slavejče" with the song "Tebe majka čeka", previously sung by great Tereza Kesovija and secured first place herself.


Kaliopi later toured with the choir of Zapro Zaprov "Razvigorče" through Czechoslovakia, Slovenia (then within their native Yugoslavia) and Austria between 1978 and 1980.

She then joined the class of Marija Nikolovska, where she studied solo singing for a total of four years, to continue her training in the Music Academy in the class of Blagoja Nikolovski in 1984. Kaliopi competed in ranked third in the 1984 Yugoslavian solo singing contest, despite her being the youngest classical music singer at the festival. She then joined a new band named after her and recorded their first two songs by request of the Macedonian Radio, titled "Tomi" ("Tommy") and "Nemoj da me budis" (Don't Wake me up").

She participated in the “Opatija” festival as a member of “Kaliopi” and won best interpretation for the song “Leo”, awarded by the journalists of Yugoslavia.[1] The band published its debut album in 1986 for RTV Ljubljana (radio and TV broadcast) also named after her. That year, the band also participated in the Split Festival in which it was awarded the prize for the best debut performer for their performance of the song “Da More Zna” (If Sea Knows), which was also proclaimed to be the most listened and played song

on the radio during that month. The second album of the band “Rodjeni” (Relative (coll.)), issued two years later, recorded in Zagreb reached enormous success, especially with the hit-song “Bato” (Brother). Other hit-songs from the band “Kaliopi” are: “Kofer Ljubavi” (Love Case), “Da More Zna” (If Sea Knows), “Ostani u Meni” (Stay With Me), “Nebo Mi Sja” (The Sky Shines For Me), “Bolero Lora” and etc.


Many performances, festivals, show-programs for TV Zagreb, TV Belgrade, TV Sarajevo, TV Titovgrad followed, as well as a very large concert tour throughout all the major cities of the Soviet Union. In the time of her biggest popularity, Kaliopi and her former husband, along with the founder of the band, Romeo Gril, moved to Switzerland, which eventually led to the band breaking up. However, even after ten years of absence from the music stage, but still they remain present in the electronic media in Macedonia with their recorded audio and video materials even today.

Kaliopi Bukle - Uzmi Me (Official Song) / Калиопи Букле  - Узми ме (Службен песна)