Anžej Dežan was born in Celje in 1987. He started his career in 1997, when he won the Karaoke competition on national television.

He continued in 1998, when he won at a local singing competition, on Radio Celje, called Full Cool Demo Top. This was his first attempt to record, and it continued in 2002, when he started improving his vocal skills at a young teacher, Jasmina Maček.

It wasn't until 2003, when he started studying vocal art with Dada Kladnik, a renowed music professor from Maribor, that his work in the music related business finally started. After a year and a half of hard work, he entered a star-search competition called 'Bitka talentov' on prime-time tv-show 'Spet doma'.

He gained the second place in the end, reaching more than 28000 votes from the public. From then onwards, thing started happening with high pace. He has found an award-winning music team, Matjaž Vlašič, Urša Vlašič and Boštjan Grabnar, who participated in the ESC before, with Vili Resnik and Nuša Derenda.

The first single, C'est la vie, was released in december 2004, reaching success at the radio stations. This was even reached in the summer of 2005, when he had won the Melodies of the sun and the sea festival in Portorož, being awarded the grand prix prize of the jury as the best song, selected by music professionals.

Later on, he participated at the Slovenian selections for the ESC in 2005, where he sang as a backvocalist to Nuša Derenda, a very successful Eurovision singer. They came in forth, and this year, Anžej managed to win the selections on his own, coming in first with a song 'plan b'. He will be participating in Athens on 18th May.