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Serbia In The Eurovision Song Contest 2022
Serbia was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song "" performed by Konstrakta. The Serbian national broadcaster Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) organised the national final in order to select the Serbian entry for the 2022 contest. It was the first entry in the Eurovision Song Contest to contain a verse in Latin. Background Prior to the 2022 contest, Serbia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest thirteen times since its first entry in , winning the contest with their debut entry "" performed by Marija Šerifović. Since 2007, ten out of thirteen of Serbia's entries have featured in the final with the nation failing to qualify in , and . Serbia's , "" performed by Hurricane (Serbian band), Hurricane, qualified to the final and placed fifteenth. The Serbian national broadcaster, Radio Television of Serbia (RTS), broadcasts the event within Serbia and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. Between 2007 and 2009, Serbia used the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pesma Za Evroviziju '22
'''22'' ( sr-Cyrl, Песма за Евровизију '22, ''PzE '22'') was the first edition of , Serbia's national final organised by Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) to select the Serbian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022. The selection consisted of two semi-finals held on 3 and 4 March 2022, respectively, and a final on 5 March 2022. All shows were hosted by Dragana Kosjerina and Jovan Radomir with backstage interviews conducted by Kristina Radenković and Stefan Popović. The three shows were broadcast on RTS1 and RTS Planeta as well as streamed online via the broadcaster's website ''rts.rs''. Format and production In 2022, RTS decided to organize Pesma za Evroviziju to decide its representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, replacing the previous national final, Beovizija. On 28 September 2022, the rulebook was published. The selection consisted of two semi-finals, held on 3 and 4 March, and a final on 5 March 2023. Voting In all 3 shows, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kristina Kovač
Kristina Kovač ( sr-Cyrl, Кристина Ковач, ; born 10 November 1974) is a Serbian singer and composer. She became famous during the 1990s when she and her sister Aleksandra Kovač were a big attraction in Serbia and surrounding countries – R&B band K2. She got back in the spotlight in 2007, thanks to her hit-single "Kolena" which spent more than 15 weeks at No. 1 on Serbian pop-rock charts and also entered MTV Adria Top 20. She was one of the judges on the first series of X Factor Adria. Biography Kristina Kovač was born in Belgrade, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia in 1974. She is the daughter of the prominent Serbian composer Kornelije Kovač. Kristina travelled a lot while she was a child and also lived in many places in Europe, such as London. She worked in London for the management company ''Mismanagement'' until the second half of the 1990s. In 2019 Kristina moved to Stockholm, Sweden with her family. Career Popularity and stardom Kristina become popular with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Aca Lukas
Aleksandar Vuksanović ( sr-cyrl, Александар Вуксановић; born 3 November 1968), better known by his stage name Aca Lukas ( sr-cyr, Аца Лукас), is a Serbian pop-folk singer and musician. Career Vuksanović began his career in the early nineties by performing alongside Serbian rock musician Viktorija and her band. His stage name comes from the Belgrade nightclub "Lukas", where he would sing during his beginnings. In 1994, Lukas released his debut album ''Ponos i laž'' (''Pride and Lie'') under ITV Melomarket. It was followed by ''Pesma od bola'' (''Song Out Of Pain'', 1996) and ''Lična karta'' (''ID'', 1998), on which he started working with prominent songwriters Marina Tucaković and Aleksandar Radulović Futa. The albums' title songs became two of his arguably best known songs. His signature hit, "Lična karta", coveres "Trauma" by Greek singer Anna Vissi. In November 1999, Lukas held his first solo concert in Pionir Hall, Belgrade to 10,000 fans. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Zorja (singer)
Zorica Pajić (; sr-Cyrl, Зорица Пајић, ; born 5 September 1996), known mononymously as Zorja, is a Serbian singer-songwriter. She gained popularity by participating in the Zvezde Granda music competition. Biography Pajić was born on 5 September 1996 in Belgrade. As she stated, she has always loved the stage, acting, singing, playing and dancing. Since she was a child, she went to folklore and sang in an ethnic group. First, she went to the "Josif Marinković" music school, and then she graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, violin department. While she was studying, she sang and played the violin on the streets of Belgrade and Novi Sad and was already noticed on the portals, while singing ethno and playing classical music. That's how she earned money for her education. Her video clip on YouTube, when she sang the song "Oj, Kosovo, Kosovo" and the Serbian national anthem Bože pravde with journalist Aleksej from Siberia, was especially noticed and became vir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gramophonedzie
Marko Milićević ( sr-cyr, Марко Милићевић), most known as Gramophonedzie (), is a Serbian DJ from Belgrade. He is best known for his 2010 single " Why Don't You", which peaked at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart. Music career Early beginnings He started his career in the year 2000 as participant at the Irish RedBull Music Academy. Milićević is known for producing the theme songs for Balkan versions of the TV show Big Brother. He also already played at events alongside Tom Novy, Basement Jaxx, Junior Jack and Bob Sinclar to name a few. 2010–present: Breakthrough His debut single " Why Don't You" was released in the UK on 1 March 2010; the song entered the UK Singles Chart on 7 March 2010 at number 12. The song also peaked at number 7 in Belgium, number 19 in the Netherlands and number 61 in Switzerland. In December 2010, he released the single "Out of My Head". In June 2012, he released the single "No Sugar", with Joey Negro David Russell Lee (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tijana Dapčević
Tijana Dapčević (; , sr-cyr, Тијана Дапчевић, , ; born 3 February 1976) is a Macedonian and Serbian singer. Early life Todevska was born in Skopje, at the time part of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, SFR Yugoslavia, to a Macedonian father Velko Todevski, a music teacher and a Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Serb mother Brana, an opera singer. Her parents studied in Sarajevo, where they met. She has a younger sister Tamara Todevska, Tamara, and is married to Milan Dapčević, a Serbian businessman. Career 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 (photography), Negative''), composed by Darko Dimitrov and included on her eponymous second studio album. She has also won first place on the Serbian Radio Festival-Feras in 2006 with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Belgrade
Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. The population of the Belgrade metropolitan area is 1,685,563 according to the 2022 census. It is one of the Balkans#Urbanization, major cities of Southeast Europe and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, third-most populous city on the river Danube. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign of Augustus and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Košutnjak
Košutnjak ( sr-Cyrl, Кошутњак, ) is a park-forest and urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is divided between in the municipalities of Čukarica (upper and central parts) and Rakovica (lower part). With the adjoining Topčider, it is colloquially styled "Belgrade's oxygen factory". The 1923 Belgrade's general plan, in which one of the main projects regarding the green areas was forestation of the area between Topčider and the city, envisioned a continuous green area Senjak – Topčidersko Brdo – Hajd Park – Topčider – Košutnjak, which was formed by the 1930s. This continual forested area makes the largest "green massif" in the immediate vicinity of Belgrade's urban tissue. Etymology The name, ''košutnjak'', is derived from the medieval hunting forests of the Serbian nobility, meaning '' doe's breeder''. (In Serbian, košuta means ''doe'', ''hind''), as does used to live freely in the park until the World War I. The name was mentioned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Wiwibloggs
Wiwibloggs is a fansite and YouTube channel focusing on the Eurovision Song Contest, launched in 2009 by journalist William Lee Adams. History In April 2015, Wiwibloggs won the Arts & Culture category at the UK Blog Awards. Adams has judged at national selections for a number of countries, among them Armenia (in 2017), Belarus (in 2020), Finland (every year between 2017 and 2021), Germany (as a member of the 100-member fan jury panel in 2019), Norway (in 2017 and 2018), Romania (in 2019, alongside fellow Wiwibloggs correspondent Deban Aderemi), Slovenia (in 2025) and Spain. Wiwibloggs staffers have also been among the jurors for selections in Latvia and Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share .... In some cases, their role as jurors in national selection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
European Broadcasting Union
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU; , UER) is an alliance of Public broadcasting, public service media organisations in countries within the European Broadcasting Area (EBA) or who are member states of the Council of Europe, members of the Council of Europe. , it is made up of 123 member organisations from 56 countries, and 31 associate members from a further 20 countries. It was established in 1950, and has its administrative headquarters in Geneva. The EBU owns and operates the Eurovision (network), Eurovision and Euroradio telecommunications networks on which major television and radio broadcasts are distributed live to its members. It also operates the daily Eurovision news exchange in which members share breaking news footage. In 2017, the EBU launched the Eurovision Social Newswire, an eyewitness and video verification service. Led by Head of Social Newsgathering, Derek Bowler, the service provides members of the EBU with verified and cleared-for-use newsworthy eyewitn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vladimir Graić
Vladimir Graić (, born 19 February 1968) is a Serbian composer of popular, film and television music. Among other pieces, he composed the song Molitva, performed by Marija Šerifović, which won the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest. Biography Born in Belgrade, Serbia, to renowned composer Radoslav Graić, he had an affinity and showed aspiration for music from early childhood and began with private piano lessons at the age of four. While attending primary school, primary and secondary school, he continued simultaneously with his music education. At the age of six he was enrolled into the Music school “Josif Marinković” where he had piano lessons for 3 years. He then continued his studies in piano and theory from 1977 to 1982 at the Music school “Mokranjac”, the oldest, one of the most respectable and most renowned Serbian musical institution, representing the foundation of musical culture and education in Serbia and the former Yugoslavia. After he finished secondary school, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Moje 3
Moje 3 ( sr-cyr, Моје 3; English: ''My 3'') was a Serbian girl group consisting of Mirna Radulović, Nevena Božović and Sara Jovanović. They represented Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö with the song " Ljubav je svuda". The group performed on the first semi-final and failed to qualify for the final of the contest. After Eurovision, the group disbanded for its members to resume their solo careers. Band history 2012-13: ''Prvi glas Srbije'' Mirna Radulović, Nevena Božović, and Sara Jovanović met during the early stages of the second season of '' Prvi glas Srbije'' ( English: ''The First Voice of Serbia''), a Serbian music talent show similar to '' The Voice'', as all three of them had been picked by the judge Aleksandra Radović for her coaching group. Radulović, Božović and Jovanović eventually progressed to the grand final, which was held on 20 January 2013, and, respectively, placed first, second and third. 2013: Eurovision Song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
