Todevska was born in Skopje, at the time part of SFR Yugoslavia, to a Macedonian father Velko Todevski, a music teacher and a Bosnian Serb mother Brana, an opera singer.

One of her hit songs is "Sve je isto, samo njega nema" (Everything Is the Same, Only He Is Gone), "he" being former President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito.

She won the Sunčane Skale Festival in Herceg Novi in 2002 with the song "Negativ" (Negative), composed by Darko Dimitrov and included on her eponymous second studio album.

On 28 August 2013, Tijana Dapčević was selected by Macedonian Radio Television to represent Macedonia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Denmark.

[4] Some of her songs have been covered in numerous other languages, such as "Sve je isto, samo njega nema" in Polish as Natasza Urbańska's "Mała" (2009) and "Pogrešan čovek" in Croatian as Lidija Bačić's "Krivi čovjek" (2014).