Kaliopi Bukle, née Grill, known professionally as Kaliopi, is a Macedonian singer-songwriter. She showed interest in music at a young age. In 1976, she entered a Macedonian children's festival called "Zlatno Slavejče", which she won with the song "Mojata učitelka". She later toured with the choir of Zapro Zaprov "Razvigorče", performing in Czechoslovakia, Slovenia (then within Yugoslavia) and Austria between 1978 and 1980. Kaliopi competed in the 1984 Yugoslavian solo singing contest, finishing in third place and competing as the youngest classical music singer at the festival.
In 1984, Kaliopi founded the band "Kaliopi" with Romeo Gril, recording their first two songs, "Tomi" and "Nemoj da me budis" at the request of Macedonian Radio. The band won best interpretation for the song "Leo" at the Festival Opatija, an award voted for by the journalists of Yugoslavia. In 1986, the band released their eponymous debut album on the ZKP RTLJ record label. In the same year, they participated in the Split Festival, where they won the best debut performer award.
In 1987, the band released their second album, "Rodjeni", which was recorded in Zagreb and was highly successful, producing the hit song "Bato". The band were active in the music scene, performing at festivals, recording television specials for TV Zagreb, TV Belgrade, TV Sarajevo and TV Titovgrad and performing a concert tour that included performances in the Soviet Union. At the height of the band’s popularity, Kaliopi and Romeo Gril moved to Switzerland. After an extended absence from the music scene, followed by the breakup of Yugoslavia, the band was officially dissolved and she embarked on a successful solo career that has spanned almost three decades.
In the Eurovision Song Contest 1996, Kaliopi performed "Samo ti", however she did not qualify from the audio-only round.
For the majority of 2011, she was part the judging panel for the first edition of Macedonian Idol alongside fellow judges Igor Džambazov and Toni Mihajlovski. Kaliopi released the songs "Ne e kraj na se" and "Se rodi den" with the finalists of the show.
After several failed attempts, she finally got the chance to represent her home country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku when she was selected internally. The song qualified for the final where it finished in 13th place.
It was revealed by Kaliopi herself that she would return to represent Macedonia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm with the song Dona. The song failed to advance from the second semifinal.
