Billysi

Billysi is a melodic rock /pop rock music group from Slovenia.

The name Billysi came into a formal use since September 2007. Before that the band used a longer version of the name, Billy's Private Parking.

The group consists of five members:

* Urska Majdic"'–vocals
* Sergej Pobegajlo"'–guitar
* Matic Ajdic"'–solo guitar
* Martin Rozman"'–bass guitar
* Roman Ratej"'–drums

They write and produce all of their music.

Discography

Their records have been so far published in Slovenia by the following order:
* "Modra pravljica" (2002)
* single "Brez besed"
* "Insomnia" (2005)
* single "Neon"
* single "Ime"
* "Magia" (2007)–Dallas records (EMI)

Songwriter: Sergej Pobegajlo
Lyrics, music co-writer: Urška Majdič

Sergej Pobegajlo is a Slovene song-writer. He worked for Hannah (USA) and for Doug Fieger (The Knack) and has received a national best-songwriter reward "Zlati petelin" in 2000 [ [http://www.hipersound.com/index.php?id=16 Hipersound Records ] ] .

Success

After their first record, "Modra pravljica" (2002), they were present on numerous national music charts with three of their songs.

BPP entered a pop-festival "Melodije morja in sonca" (2004) with a hard-rock song "Se verjamem" (I still believe) with which they got to the final of the contest.

BPP presented the song "Prezeni oblake" on a famous Slovene festival Hit Festival in November 2004 [ [http://www.hitfestival.net/finalisti.php HIT Festival 2004 ] ] and came out second, winning first place by radio juries all over Slovenia. Urska Majdic received a special award for the lyrics [ [http://www.hitfestival.net/rezultati.php HIT Festival 2004 ] ] .

They decided to take a chance on "Ema" - the Slovenia’s Eurovision song contest [http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMA_2005] . This time they were even bolder- they wrote and recorded a rock song named "Ljubljana" in only a day and got to the finals.

Their second album, "Insomnia", was released in May2005 [ [http://www.hipersound.com/index.php?id=14 Hipersound Records ] ] .

Four songs from the album reached the Top places of the national music charts, for example: - Ljubljana, 1st place - Popevka tedna) [ [http://www.rtvslo.si/val202/modload.php?&c_mod=popevkatedna&op=popevkatedna&func=read&c_id=61 RTV SLOVENIJA - Val 202 ] ] - Ime, 1st place, Magazine Stop (Stop pops 20), 1st place Planet 10 national Mobitel chart (two weeks), 1st place Moj Radio, 1st place TV video chart A kanal.- Insomnia, 1st place - Val 202 [ [http://www.rtvslo.si/val202/modload.php?&c_mod=popevkatedna&op=popevkatedna&func=read&c_id=78 RTV SLOVENIJA - Val 202 ] ]

URSKA a.k.a. URSYNA
Urska wrote and performed a song with cooperation of "Blue Production Team" for a TV commercial for the Slovenian mobile operator SiMobil (Vodafone). It was a pop-house song in English "If I … (Fell In love)," which became a hit in Slovenia. Urska, who's nickname in this project was "Ursyna", got the SOF - OFF advertising reward [http://www.soz.si/projekti_soz/soz_e_mesecnik/102/] for best song on the SOF festival in Portoroz. Billysi remade the song in a rock version for their live performances.

Magia 2007

"Hello Hello"
Billysi released a single "Hello Hello" from "Magia". They premiered this song in a live TV show on National TV TVS1 [ [http://24ur.com/ekskluziv/glasba/billysi-magia.html Billysi – Magia - 24ur.com ] ] . It is the first video in the world filmed by mobile-phones during a live show on a national TV [ [http://www.rtvslo.si/zabava/modload.php?&c_mod=rnews&op=sections&func=read&c_menu=19&c_id=29024 Billysi predstavljajo nov singel ] ] . "Hello Hello" has been also used for a SiMobil mobile phones promotional action in March 2008.

MAGIA
Billysi released their third album Magia with Dallas Records in November 2007. The album got thumbs up reviews by top Slovene music magazines ("24ur [ [http://24ur.com/ekskluziv/glasba/magicni-billysi.html Magični Billysi - 24ur.com ] ] , Slovenske novice, Pilot, Playboy", Zurnal24 [ [http://www.zurnal24.si/cms/magazin/glasba/index.html?id=43415 Čaroben nov začetek - Glasba - zurnal24 ] ] , Rockonnet [ [http://www.rockonnet.com/clanek.php?id=2&article=6926 RockOnNet - spletni časopis za glasbofile : glasbene novice : Billysi poleg novega imena še z novim albumom ] ] etc). "Magia" is more pop-rock orientated, with two songs in English.

External linkes

* [http://www.billysi.net Band's Official Website ]
* [http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billysi ]

Source: Dallas Records Slovenia [ [http://www.dallas.si/default.cfm?Jezik=si&Kat=05 Dallas.si ] ]

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