Belinda Bedekovic, from Zagreb in Croatia, began to take up music at the age of three and a half years after her mother Ivkica purchased first keyboard, red ''Bambi'' on which Belinda played her first note ''e''. And so Belinda, under pedagogical leadership of her father Teodor, professional musician, started to overcome note by note with a good grace, curiosity and child's interest, taking her keyboard as a new amazing and brilliant toy. That's how it started. First appearance on TV Belinda had at the age of 5. Her performance was accompanied by admiration of music experts because five years old child with impeccable musical ear professionally done recording session at first attempt. Stunned cameramen and director asserted: ''Even a famous and trained musicians cant make it at first attempt!''. Experts at that time called her ''a wonder child'' or ''wunderkind''. In this period she appeared on TV, radio and in the press. Even as a child on her public appearances Belinda got enthusiastic cheering and enormous applause in the middle of the songs, and she turned into genuine juvenile star. Already as a child she realized that the music was going to be her life choice and the greatest love of all.

         At the age of 11 Belinda joined her first band called ''Belinda band''. With enormous success they performed all over Croatia. Many famous Croatian musicians joined the tour. It was the first band of that kind in Croatia. Another curiosity is that Belinda joined music school at the age of 15, skipping junior music school and the first and the second grade of high school. Since she knew scores very well, professors considered that she is qualified for the third grade. She got finished theoretic section, and her profession was a music teacher. She has never worked in school as a teacher because she chose to be an entertainer.

In early life Belinda showed her talent for composing and at the age of 7 she composed her first compositions: ''Sounds of jungle'', ''When I grow up big to the sky'' and they were all radio broadcasted. Later this communicative, brave and unusual little girl put in row enormous successes in appearances at great concert halls ''Vatroslav Lisinski'' and ''Sports center'' as a guest star to mega popular bands and singers. Her virtuosity and musicality on keyboard left the audience without breath. 

         Famous Peppino Principe, probably the best accordionist in the fields of classic and jazz music, watched Belinda in one TV show. When he saw Belinda's speed at her keyboard, he called her ''the fastest finger on the remote keyboard'' in the field of pop music. Afterwards many experts, independently, confirmed that Peppino's statement.  

         Later, when she was an adolescent, Belinda joined her female band and again she drew attention on herself by many TV live appearances. At the end, she finally chose solo career.

These days she has been working on her project ''TORNADO ON THE REMOTE KEYBOARD''. On her public appearances with her virtuosity and performance she ''demolishes everything in front of her'', and they are regularly accompanied by enthusiastic applause, sometimes even leading to euphoria.

         This fragile blue blooded brunette recently released her single CD, which contains three compositions: ''When you kiss me'', ''My song'' and ''Tornado'', and video CD with ''Tornado'' and ''My song''.

         At the end of september 2006 Belinda returned from Hollywood where she made a soundtrack and video with Ali G. (Borat), the greatest comedian of the 21st century, for his latest movie ''Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for make Benefit Glorius Nation of Kazakhstan''. Sacha Baron Cohen aka Ali G. or Borat was surfing on the internet and lit upon her web site. After he saw on Belinda's web site video for her composition ''Tornado'' he knew he wanted her and only her for his project. Afterwards Belinda was contacted by one of Borat's producers, but there was a problem with Belinda's visa. Since Borat wanted only Belinda for his video, he was waiting for a year with filming until Belinda gets visa and comes to USA. When Belinda arrived to Hollywood, Borat made Belinda a true hollywood star. Limo waited for Belinda at the airport, and when she arrived at the studio, entire crew preceded by Sascha Baron Cohen bid welcome and thanked her for coming to Hollywood. At the studio make up man and hair stylist waited for Belinda, and there also was her wardrobe with champagne and fruits. The song that Belinda and Borat made was called ''You be my wife'' and they both played keytar. They have a love dialogue which is a little bit romantic and little bit passionate. That unforgetable week Belinda was located at the Hyatt West Hollywood Hotel.

          With Sacha Baron Cohen Belinda appeared on one of the greatest american TV shows, Late Night With Conan O'Brien, presenting their video ''You be my wife'' from Sascha's latest movie ''Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for make Benefit Glorius Nation of Kazakhstan'', on 1st November 2006 in New York.

         Considering that she started to play keyboard at the age of three and a half years, she always knew that music was going to characterize her life an give it right meaning.

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