"Esen Vo Mene" ( mk, Есен во мене, English translation: "Autumn In Me") is a single by the Macedonian singer and song-writer

Elena Risteska Elena Risteska ( mk, Елена Ристеска, ; born 27 April 1986), sometimes known as simply Elena, is a Macedonian singer. She represented Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens with the song "Ninanajna", and finished in 1 ...

realized in 2006. It is the fourth single from her second studio album ''

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''. Later in 2008 it was included in her

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version of ''192'' called '' Milioner'', but together with "

Ninanajna Macedonia (officially under the provisional appellation "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", abbreviated "FYR Macedonia") participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the song "Ninanajna" written by Darko Dimitrov and Rade Vrčakov ...

" it was not re-recorded in Serbian.

Background

After the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 Elena started to work on a new project. "Esen Vo Mene" was the pilot single that came out just two months before realizing the album ''192''. In 2008 it was included in the album ''Milioner'' that was actually the Serbian version of ''192'', but the song was not re-recorded in Serbian like the most of the songs and stayed as it was originally in Macedonian.

Production history

"Esen Vo Mene" is a pop–

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. The author of the music is Elena's producer

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and the lyrics were written by the Macedonian diva Kaliopi Bukle. For first time the song was presented on 9 October 2006 in the Macedonian TV show ''Vrteleška''. Later on 21 October was realized with an official music video.

Music video

The

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for the song was shot in September/October, 2006. Director of the video is Bane Popović together with Tomato Produkcija.
It features a dark room in which Elena stays and performs during the whole video.

Release history

References

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