БОЖЕ, БРАНИ ЈЕ ОД ЗЛА - Тоше Проески (God, spare her from evil - Toše Proeski) - (piano cover 2023)

🇷🇸🔆 On this Day - January 25 On January 25 in 1981, Todor Toše Proeski (originally Proja) was born in Prilep, a multi-genre singer and songwriter of Cincar ancestry. He was first of all, a great Orthodox Christian believer (☦️), a man who adored children, people and a man with a big heart, who left this world too soon aged only 26, when he lost his life in a catastrophic traffic accident in 2007. in Croatia. In 2004, he was appointed as the regional Goodwill Ambassador of the international children’s association UNICEF. On that occasion, he released the song “За овој свет“ and “This World“ as an English version, which became the UNICEF anthem. He organized countless charity performances throughout the Balkans, all of which were used to send contributions to poor children, schools, church construction and maternity hospitals throughout his birth country of FYRO Macedonia, but also Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He released an album of traditional folk music by Божилак (titled “Rainbow“ in English version) in which numerous forgotten traditional songs of so called “Old Serbia“ region (aka modern FYRO Macedonia and Kosovo & Metohija region) which were restored in a new lgiht, shortly before his death another album of this traditional music was in preparation stages. He is sadly mostly remembered for his astonishingly successful pop-music career with numerous mega-hits charting at top of the lists on all radio stations throughout the Balkans. Greatest hits such as: “Пратим те“ (“По тебе“), “Чија си“, “Соба за тугу“ (“Соба за тага“), “Боже, брани је од зла“ (Боже, чувај ја од зло), “Волим осмијех твој“ and many others were listened equally in the entire Balkans, fans adored him whether it was in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia or Montenegro and brought everyone truly all together and wholeheartedly. He spent his childhood and his whole life in Kruševo, where he was buried, and where many fans gather every year to commemorate a living proof you can be rich and not lose your humanity, good heart, humbleness and do many good deeds for people everywhere. In his honour, I decided to post my (dubiously likeable?) cover of his song “God, save her from evil“, recorded in March 2022, looking back now at it with lots of nostalgia, a time when many things were better and I actually played some music, hopefully I get the will to go back at it again (and maybe improve on this recording which was best available but certainly very flawed, even by my phone trolling me while recording at some point 😵😵😂😂) Hope you enjoy it, and hopefully I’ll be coming to Instagram a bit more often than once every 4 months or so. #toseproeski #cs_eXtreme #bozebranijeodzla #bozecuvajjaodzlo #tosee #proeski @toseproeski_ @toseeproeski