* In 1994, Elena joined the KUD Kocho Racin (a club for folk dances and songs).Elena took part in school activities such as singing in the "Young Imitators" show and becoming a member of the drama club.

* In 1996, Elena made her television debut in the Mak-Karaoke Show where she performed the song Flamingo on the commercial channel A1 TV. The same year she started to take a courses in English and French language.After that, Elena started to sing in the school chorus and went to Bulgaria for her first tour with the folk dances club.

* In 1998, Elena took part in many competitions and won many local,national, and international awards in drawing.

* In 1999, Elena provided her talent in poetry by one song of her, that won title best and it was published in the most famous childrens newspaper – "Our World" .

* In 2000, Elena went on toured in Turkey, Czech Republic, and Bulgaria with the folk dances club. That year she was on one art colony in Strumica too.

* December 22nd 2002, Elena rose to popularity in Macedonia by competing and winning in the reality television show Play - Search For A Star organized by M2 production. Her debut single, Ona Drugoto(The Other Thing) became a hit in Macedonia.

* In July 2003, she had her successful debut album Den i Nok. The album included various songs (R&B, Pop and Hip-Hop) which also became successful singles in Macedonia and other Balkan countries. Risteska is also an occasional songwriter. She has wrote many songs for many popular perfomers here in Macedonia and also in the other countries for ex: 4Play, Lambe Alabakoski, Rober Bilbilob, Rade Vrcakovski – Vrcak, Aleksandra Pileva, Verica Pandilovska etc.

After her great success with her debut album in Maceodonia, she started promoting herself outside in the foreign countries.

* In 2004, she performed at the Golden Stag Festival in Brasov, Romania and in 2005 she performed Ni Na Nebo, Ni Na Zemja at the Suncane Skale festival in Herceg Novi, Montenegro. Elena’s video began rotating on MTV Adria and her popularity continued to grow.

* On March 4, 2006, Elena Risteska won the Macedonia preselection contest for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Ninanajna.The song was composed and produced by Darko Dimitrov, with lyrics by Rade Vrcakovski. The song is an uptempo, pop song with elements of R&B, disco and dance music. Risteska qualified for the final,and after spending most of the night on the edge of the top ten, at 18th od May 2006, she finished 12th with 56 points, the best finish for any musician who has ever represented Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest.

After her performance on the Eurovision Song Contest her popularity grew very fast although she was already popular. That contest guarantied her many contracts with many foreign production houses such as Foreign Media Music from Netherland and Studio Shaman from France and she signed a couple of contracts with foreign peroformes such as: Regina (with who she published the song Ljubav Nije Za Nas as an alteration of the eponymous song).

* In July 2006, Elena performed Ne Mogu at the Suncane Skale festival where she placed 10th.Elena traveled to Yerevan, Armenia in September to perform as a guest in Armenias' Eurovision 2006 representative Andres' concert. She was well received by the audience, which was expected because her Eurovision song Ninanajna was a summer hit and a popular ringtone in Armenia.

* In October 2006, Elena released a new single called Esen Vo Mene(Autumn in me) composed by Darko Dimitrov. After that she published her second album called 192 (which name is a number for calling the police). The album is made in France in the Studio Shaman in production of Leroy Chambers and Darko Dimitrov. As the first one, the second one was also well accepted from the audience and it had a really successful promotion. Most of the songs such as: Esen Vo Mene (Autumn In Me), Nekade Daleku (Somewhere Far),Milioner (Millionaire) and the eponymous song 192 became hits number one on the Macedonian radio stations.

Elena is currently studying Italian language and literature in the Philological University in Skopje, as well going in the university Eurocollege in Kumanovo.In the moment she's preparing her English Album also named as 192 which is planed to promote her in the foreign countries.Also, she is going to publish her video for the English version of the song Milioner which is made in Amsterdam and produced by Foreign Media Music. Anyway, she's still performing almost every weekend in the Macedonian famous night clubs such as: Grand, Frame, B2, Level, Colosseum etc.. so if you're about to listen what she's got to show you then .. don't spend your time on stupid things and go on her parties!!!

* In 2007, Elena took part in Skopje Fest 2007, the Macedonian Eurovision selection.Although she was not a performer this time, she wrote the lyrics for the song Belo e Se (Everything is White), which was performed by Lambe Alabakoski and came in third place with 101 points.At the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, she delivered the results of the national Macedonian televoting during the final night.

* On the May 8, 2007, for her 21st Birthday, she was given as a present a dog which she named Valery. She said that it was the most beautiful present. She went to the TV show Melita Rakicevic,(famous for pet show broadcaster). She was given this dog from one of her fans Ivana Balabanova.

* On June 9, 2007, Elena and the Bosnian rock group, Regina, took part in the opening act for The Rolling Stones. They performed their hit song, Ljubav Nije Za Nas, (Love Is Not For Us) in front of the crowd in Budva, Montenegro. Immediately following their performance at the Stones concert, Elena and the group headed to the Montenegrin song festival, Suncane Skale. They won the Princeve Nagrade(Prince's Award) for Best Duet of the Year for the song Ljubav Nije Za Nas.

* Elena participated in the Radijski Festival on December 15, 2007 performing the song Kreveta Dva. It is the Serbian version of her song Ima li kraj. Elena finished in second place together with Karolina Goceva. Elena won two awards, one for best interpretation and the other from Radio OSM Pale.