Žanamari Perčić (née Lalić; born 8 September 1981) is a Croatian recording artist, who rose to prominence in 2004 as the first winner of Hrvatski idol, Croatian equivalent of Pop Idol. After her initial rise to fame, she participated in various Croatian reality shows, including the 2013 release Ples sa zvijezdama (Croatian Dancing With The Stars) and Tvoje lice zvuči poznato (Croatian Your Face Sounds Familiar). Life and career Žanamari was born and raised in Makarska. In 2001 she obtained a degree in management and moved to Germany, where she released a single "Feels like Heaven" in 2002. She also competed in Deutschland sucht den Superstar, a talent show by RTL Television. After she won NOVA TV's talent show Hrvatski Idol, Croatian equivalent of the Pop Idol, she competed in Croatian music festivals, winning an award at Zadarfest 2004 for best performance and choreography. She was also in the Croatian Radio Festival 2005 with the single "Bar su suze besplatne", 2008 with "Bijela robinja" and 2009 with her most successful song "Crni leptire". In 2008 and 2010 she performed at CMC festival with singles "Da mi daš još samo jednu noć" and "Ljubav". She has competed in the HRT Dora Eurosong pre-selection in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Her first solo album Žanamari was released in 2005 by Croatia Records. From 2008 to 2011 she toured with her supporting band Syndrome and also performed with Matija Dedić Electric Band. In 2010 she formed a pop-rock band J'Animals. The group got its name from Žanamari’s pseudonym J’Animale. Wanting to express herself not just as a vocalist but also as a songwriter in composing a new record she co-wrote the first couple of songs with producers Dejan Orešković and Igor Ivanović in the spring of 2010, then recruited guitarist Jura Geci and keyboardist Nikola Vranić, both formerly of Voodoo Lizards, along with drummer Emil Kranjčić, formerly of Dead by Mistake. Together they invited bassist Sebastian Jurić from Sane and guitarist Gordan Dragić from Skaut who played acoustic shows with Žanamari during her solo career. Dragić soon became a major songwriter for the band's debut album together with Žanamari and the rest of the band collaborated on the arrangements. They released a video for their first single Nije napola in April 2011, then performed with their second single Oteti pa vraćeni at CMC Festival in June 2011, and along with the third hit single