Jovan Roms

"'Jovan" ("Johan Roms") (born 1981) is a Finnish pop singer, who began his career as a child singer.

His first published song was "Ankkalinnan lambada", recorded in 1988 for a local radio station, when Jovan, which back then was known by his Finnish nickname Juha, was only 8 years old. As a child Jovan participated in various song contests. At 1993 he was the audience's favorite in "SongBird (Laululintu)" contest in Finland. Right after that he participated in one of the most famous programs in Finnish TV history, Tenavatähti, with a song he composed himself - "Rakkauden väriloisto". He made his way to the grand final of the contest, and spent the following years touring around Finland. In 1994-1997 he was also playing lead roles in several musical productions, such as The Sound of Music (Friedrich) and Pippi Longstocking (Tommy), etc. In 1994 Jovan started the recordings of what would have become his first album, Nouskaa lentoon. The album was half finished, but the recordings were stopped as Jovan's voice began to change. In 1996 Jovan had a few TV appearances with the songs "Emptiness/Cold rain". Jovan has also composed songs for other artists, such as Funky (Lithuanian pop group) and Milana, who participated in Eurovision preselection in Lithuania with Jovan's song Eternal love in 2004 and scored a top ten hit in Lithuania with the song's Lithuanian version.

After having lived in Mexico, Spain and Lithuania, Jovan returned to Finland. He is currently located in the city of Turku and currently working with new music.

ee also

*Finnish music
* [www.myspace.com/jovanroms/] - Jovan's myspace