from oikotimes.com
Tinka chats with fans

On Sunday, April 9, Tinka joined many ESC fans in a public chatroom session sponsored by the popular Eurovision website oikotimes. After some technical difficulties, Tinka managed to join everyone who was anxiously awaiting to hear from her. Fans had numerous questions for Tinka, which she readily and honestly answered.

The usual question, "Who is your favorite this year" came up a few times - Tinka responded that she likes many songs this year, but that she considers her top five to include Spain, Romania, Croatia, Greece and Sweden and she also mentioned she likes the Albanian and the Icelandic songs.

Tinka revealed that she is currently working on a tour to rpmote her upcoming debut album; the tour would see her making trips solo across Europe before joining her Six4One mates and heading off to Athens to defend the Swiss colors.

In other news, Tinka's brand-new official website - www.tinka.ba has come to life, offering photographs, music and some biographical information. Visitors are also able to send Tinka direct e-mails, which she reads dilligently and responds to as quickly as possible.

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Six4One video shoot - photo gallery

Reto Caduff was the director of the video clip for the Swiss Eurovision entry "If We All Give A Little" sung by Six4One, including Tinka Milinović. Caduff is Swissman who's lived in Hollywood and Los Angeles for the past few years and has worked with renowned artists such as Madonna, Shaq, Angelina Jolie and others.

Eurobosnia has exclusively been sent a gallery of photos from the photo shoot which took place in Greece in Nafplion, a small seaside town on Aegean sea, 150km from Athens. The whole duration of the shoot, the weather was beautiful and sunny with temperatures around 20 degrees Celcius.

The professional team that worked on the video clip included 30 people, mostly Swiss and Greek. Per Tinka, the experience was unforgettable and of immense value to her. The shoot caused huge media attention in Greece, and whole town was on their feet during the five days Six4One spent there. They were all welcomed with open arms.

While on the shoot, Tinka was interviewed by many foreign TV stations, including Greek ERT, Swiss SF and the music channel VIVA. For pictures from the shoot and interviews - click here.

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Tinka after party

The promotional party of "Six4One" was held last night, March 16 in the beautiful Kaufleuten in Zurich. More than 200 guests and journalists attended the party. The red carpet was covered with cameramen and journalists of various media houses, including VIVA, MTV and Swiss TV stations.

At the party, Six4One gave a performance of their Eurovision song, and each member sang a solo song. Our Tinka performed the song "Time To Fall In Love Again" from the upcoming English-language album. Also last night, the video that was filmed in Greece a couple of weeks ago had its premiere. "I can't wait to bring the clip to BiH and see it played at home too," said Tinka.

Her Excellency Jasmina Pašalić and the rest of the diplomatic corps joined the party in show of support for Tinka. "We had a great time and I have to say that I was incredibly happy to have a piece of our country with me during the grand party. I really felt like I was home being in company of our Ambassador and her colleagues from the Embassy in Bern," adds Tinka.

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Six4One on Swiss TV show Benissimo

On Saturday, March 18, Tinka is set to mark another first - the first time a Bosnian is going out live on a Swiss TV show, or anywhere else in Western Europe for that matter. Tinka and her mates from Six4One are set to feature on one of the most popular television programmes in Switzerland - the hour-long Benissimo show.

Pink, Mel C and Tokio Hotel will also be a part of the show, which goes out live on Schweizer Fernsehen (SFRDS). In the past, the show has played host to artists such as Robbie Williams, Madonna, Phil Collins, Anastasia, Shakira, Tina Turner and many more popular international artists. For more (in German) - click here.

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Six4One promotional party in Zurich

Members of Six4One are very busy these days preparing for their performance, holding press conferences, appearing on various TV shows and working on the promotional party of the group's album.

Tomorrow, March 16, the promotional party is to take place. It will take place at the Kaufleuten in Zurich. As a reminder, the group has recorded a 17-song album to be released on March 17 in Switzerland, while the rest of Europe will be able to buy it in shops on April 28.

Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Switzerland, Her Excellency Jasmina Pašalić and the diplomatic corps of the embassy have been invited to attend the party and according to Tinka, everything has been organized and is ready for their arrival and presence at the promotional party, as they want to extend their support for Tinka.

During the night, the group will give their performance and invite all the media and the guests to attend their party. In addition to "If We Give A Little," the members are each planning to give their own individual performances. Tinka will sing a song from her new foreign album - "Time To Fall In Love Again."

Thanks to Tinka's engagement with Swiss television as their Eurovision representative this year, she has seen many doors open, such as the popular music TV stations VIVA and German MTV. She is also receiving many invitations for her to perform, promote and appear at various television shows.

The video to the song "If We All Give A Little" which was filmed in Greece, is set to be made public March 20.

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Tinka meets Swiss Ambassador

Friday, March 10 in the Swiss embassy in Sarajevo, the Swiss Ambassador His Excellency Urs Breiter, welcomed Tinka, before her performance at Eurovision, where she will, as a Bosnian and Herzegovinian, represent Switzerland.

"Ambassador Urs Breiter played an excellent host in the Swiss Embassy and expressed full support for my future work. In an informal and pleasant atmosphere, we conversed about my taking part in Eurovision for Switzerland, about my work and multi-disciplined education, as well as new albums that I am working on simultaneously both in BiH and outside."

"Of course, we touched on other subjects as well, important to the development of good ties between Switzerland and Bosnia and Herzegovina. I really enjoyed the pleasant company and the simple conversation with His Excellency Breiter."

The Bosnian-Herzegovinan Ambassador in Switzerland, Her Excellency Jasmina Pašalić was invited to attend the CD promotion of group "Six4One," which will be held in Zurich on March 16, with a grand media presence.

"At the promotion in Zurich, my wish is to bring attention to Bosnia and Herzegovina as well, namely to the fresh and positive ways which many people outside of BiH are not aware we posses. The image of our country, generally in the world, is not at the level which we could have. So, it is my honor to, through my performance and my art and education, show that Bosnia and Herzegovina has also many more beautiful and cultured things than those damaging ones that we're unfortunately most known for."

At the promotional event, in addition to the performance of "If We All Give A Little" by Six4One, Tinka will present her new song from the foreign album, "Time To Fall In Love Again."

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Tinka films video with Six4One

Members of Six4One have recently came back from Greece where they were filming the video clip for the Swiss entry "If We All Give A Little." The video will be released to the public on March 20.

Also being released soon is the single of the song, which includes three versions, all of which you can listen to and download right here at eurobosnia. The group's album is seto to be released in Switzerland on March 17 and April 28 in the rest of Europe.

The album includes a total of 17 songs, some of which are song solo by the six artists and some by the group as a whole. Tinka has two solo songs on the playlist: new song "Never Give Up Your Dreams" and the BH Eurosong 2005 entry "Sometimes I Wish I Were A Child."

A sad malo ponaški. :) Kao prvo, dragi posjetitelji, hvala vam na povjerenju i posjetama eurobosniji. Ove godine dvoje građana Bosne i Hercegovine nastupa na Euroviziji u Atini. Hari Mata Hari su izabrani da predstavljaju Bosnu i Hercegovinu, dok se Tinka Milinović svidjela Švicarcima koje predstavlja zajedno s pet ostalih članova grupe Six4One.

Na nama je zadatak da odamo čast Hariju i Tinki, u slučaju Tinke, pogotovo jer je ovo prvi put da jedan bh. gradjanin predstavlja neku drugu europsku zemlju. Znači, dijaspora i susjedi i komšije, glasajte za Harija i Tinku, jer oboje zaslužuju našu podršku. Vrijeme je za BiH!

Eurobosnia i ove godine leti na Euroviziju. Na blogu atina.blogger.ba ćete moći uživati u ekskluzivnim fotografijama, reportažama i informacijama. Do tada, smišljajte plan kako da pomognete Hariju i Tinki da se plasiraju što bolje moguće, kako to i zaslužuju!

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Max Magazin, December 14, 2006
Tinka National like Céline Dion

Our famous singer Tinka Milinović till now is the only Bosnian singer to be invited to represent another country at the most important European light music festival, to be held in Athens in 2006.

At BH Eurosong 2006, this time, Tinka Milinović will not be a competitor, but instead, in full brilliance, she will perform at the glamourous musical event in Athens as a representative of Switzerland, just like Céline Dion in 1988, somewhere at the beginning of her career, represented this country at the competition in Dublin, singing "Ne partez pas sans moi," with which she had won.

Sexy master of solo singing, who breaks all stereotypes, was invited this year to defend the colors of the country in whose city of Lugano 50 years ago, the first Eurovision Song Contest took place. That year, Switzerland took the first victory, and thanks to breaking of borders in music and lead by quality of vocals, and not national opportunities as, some think, is the case in Bosnia, Switzerland was again, in 1988 the winner, thanks to Canadian Céline Dion. Who knows, maybe our Tinka, together with other members of the group from Switzerland, Malta, Portugal, Sweden and Israel, fifty years after the first European festival of light music, will help Switzerland to win the third Grand Prix.

"The idea was very appealing, exciting and original to me. I'm representing Switzerland as one of six singers from different parts of Europe, and we, as representatives of six different culture, are working with combined powers to realize something beautiful and successful. In any case, music is an international tongue. Six people of different ethnic, religious, societal and cultural origins came together, just like it's the case with Switzerland, where people of different cultures live and where four official languages: German, French, Italian and Romansh function together. I am pleased, because in that kind of surrounding I can learn many things," says Tinka, adding that she is at the same time beyond happy, but also disappointed that she will not officially represent her own country.

"Four times in a row, I have competed to be the Bosnian representative at Eurosong, with different songs and stage performances. I had a great desire to represent my country every time I entered the competition. This desire still exists. Last year only a little bit was needed to win, and with the same team who is also behind this year's song we're singing for Switzerland - composer Ralph Siegel and lyricist Bern Meinunger. Unfortunately, I did not win. So, I've presented myself in various editions, but, obviously the organizers did not want me or I was not good enough or interesting enough to them. Looks like only the Bosnian audience noticed me, voting by telephone, but that was not enough," she says, appearing still a little hurt, but not remaining unnoticed in other parts of Europe.

It seems hard for her to hide the excitement about the fact that she will take part in the most important musical festival of the Old Continent:

"Casting, to which only a handful of talented European performers were invited, chosen by the Swiss TV (SFD-RS) and the German music producer Ralph Siegel, was held in Munich at the Olympia Studios and lasted three days. The organizers and producers from the Swiss TV, representatives of SonyBMG and Ralph Siegel in the end chose the best six. They sought singers with strong vocal abilities, but also interesting personalities, which, as they said, they got."

In the past month, depending on the engagements in Sarajevo, she could often be found in Munich, recording the song with the other singer in the Olympia Studios. Along with rehearsals and arrangements linked to the performance and promotion, they hang out and are getting to know each other. They've already had several photo sessions and meetings with Swiss and German journalists. She is more than pleased with the overall organization and new friends, and is eagerly awaiting the final music event.

"Everything has been thought through perfectly and the work is at a very high, professional level. Before the first departure for the studio, we were greeted with plane tickets, hotel room reservations, drivers. The details before casting nobody knew. After the six of us were chosen, the organizers told us that they found the winning combination. They didn't want a boy band or a girl band, but were looking for a blend of developed, ripe soloists, " says the only Bosnian singer to be invited to represent another country in Eurovision.

"If we win for Switzerland, that would automatically be a victory for Bosnia and Herzegovina as well, that is, for all the countries, from which we come from. I've already heard from a large number of Bosnians and Herzegovinians who live in Switzerland and they are very happy that they will be represented by a known face from their homeland."