In 1997, at the height of the Kosovo War, he moved with his parents and his brother to the United States with the family as refugees.
[3] He became a main soloist for the choir, had a debut at Carnegie Hall with Chichester Psalms and was a guest artist performing with Yo-Yo Ma and members of Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
As soloist with the choir, he performed backing vocals with artists like Julie Andrews, Celine Dion, Nick Carter, New Kids on the Block, Nelly Furtado and Enrique Iglesias.
Winning the regionals in Chicago, he proceeded to the U.S. national finals where he was nominated for the presidential scholarship for opera studies.
[1] Karolina Gočeva winning the contest went on to represent Macedonia with the song "Mojot svet".
He was credited as backing vocalist on four of the 14 tracks of the album: "All We Got", "Same Drugs", "How Great" and "Finish Line / Drown".
[1] In 2018, he returned to his desire to develop a pop career by releasing "Gerdan" ("Necklace") in 2018, "Patuvam" ("Travelling") in 2019 and "Mojata Ulica" ("Welcome to my Street") in 2020, all accompanied by music videos.
Garvanliev was a backing vocalist for the Macedonian entry "Proud", performed by Tamara Todevska, at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest.
The three-member backing vocals included Garvanliev, Aleksandra Janeva and Antonia Gigovska.
On 15 January 2020, it was announced that he had been internally selected by the national broadcaster Macedonian Radio Television to represent North Macedonia in the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Javier Lloret de Muller, Darko Dimitrov and Lazar Cvetkovski provided additional production.
[12] A piece of art shown in the music video of the song was interpreted as the Bulgarian flag by the Macedonian public.
[20][21] On 23 March, the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Ambassador of North Macedonia in Sofia due to the controversy surrounding the case.
[22] Regarding the video case, Garvanliev said the artwork shown "had no deliberate connection with the Bulgarian flag," as the "creation of the artist Janeta Vangeli is inspired by Jesus Christ.
[32] He sought refuge at the age of ten in the United States after difficult conditions during the Kosovo War.
He had a difficult life as his father, mother and brother were deported from the United States and had to return to Macedonia.
His father arranged to work in Italy as a day worker picking vegetables and died there in 2005.
In May 2021, Garvanliev came out as gay in an interview with Attitude, adding that he came to terms with his sexuality as a high school student, and has been out to his friends and family for nearly two decades.