EN:

Omar Naber (born 1981) is a Slovenian singer and songwriter. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. His father was from Jordan, while his mother is Slovenian.

Omar Naber won Bitka talentov, the Slovenian version of the Battle of the talents, and participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with "Stop" (in Slovene), a song he had composed himself.

His album Omar was released in 2005. He spent 2006 touring Slovenia, as well as internationally, and eventually went back to the studio to record his second album with his band Kareem. This second album, also named Kareem, was released in 2007.

He entered the Slovenian selection for the Eurovision Song Contest three more times, not proceeding to the main contest: in 2009 with "I Still Carry On", in 2011 with "Bistvo skrito je očem", and in 2014 with "I Won't Give Up".

His album Na glavo was released in 2014, along with its English version No Helmet.

SI:

Omar Naber, slovenski glasbenik in pevec, rojen 7. julija 1981 v Ljubljani. Njegova mati, ki je po poklicu učiteljica glasbe, je po narodnosti Slovenka; oče, ki pa je po poklicu zobozdravnik, je po narodnosti Arabec, po rodu iz Jordanije. Omar se je izučil za zobnega tehnika, z glasbo pa se ukvarja od svojega šestnajstega leta. Danes je kot glasbenik dejaven tako kot solist in tudi z glasbeno skupino Kareem.

Nastopil je na slovenskem televizijskem Castingshowu Bitka talentov in zmagal. Zmaga na Bitki talentov mu je zagotovila nastop na EMI 2005. Z malone 30.000 glasovi je premagal ostalih 13 izvajalcev. Z zmagovalno pesmijo Stop, ki jo je napisal sam, je (ob vokalni spremljavi Teje Saksida) nastopil na izboru za pesem Evrovizije v Kijevu, kjer je v polfinalu zasedel 11. mesto, kar je bilo premalo za finalni nastop.

Omar igra klavir in kitaro, poleg tega pa sam sklada pesmi in piše besedila.