Croatia: Dora 2023 participants unveiled
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HRT, Croatia's national broadcaster has released the 18 participants of the Croatian national selection for Eurovision 2023.
Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) has announced the line up of the next edition of "Dora 2023" – a list of 18 songs and four spare songs that will compete in the prestigious Dora competition with one of them winning the right to represent the country at Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool next May.
The competition received 196 applications, and the finalists of Dora were selected by a jury consisting of: Željko Mesar, Zlatko Turkalj, Robert Urlić, Ema Gross, Igor Geržina, Željen Klašterka, Ivan Horvat, Tomislav Krizmanić, Dražen Miočić.
Besides the 18 competing acts four more acts were selected as back up artists in case one of the 18 acts couldn't make it to the Dora 2023 stage.
Thus, here are the acts selected to compete in Dora 2023 along with their songtitles and their composers:
- ANGELS AND DEMONS – DAMIR KEDŽO (Jamie Duffin, Stefan Celar, Michael Chun-Fai Chung (aka Kyler Niko), Victoria Jane Horn – ARR Jamie Duffin)
- BYE BYE BLONDE – MERI ANDRAKOVIĆ (Boris Đurđević - Valerija Đurđević - Boris Đurđević)
- DISTANCE – MARTHA MAY (Marta Ivić – ARR Oliver Fecci-Chiffi)
- DOM – TAJANA BELINA (Tajana Belina, Marcel Sprunkel)
- FREE FALIN’ – ĐANA (Đana Smajo)
- GRIJEH – BORIS ŠTOK – GRIJEH (Boris Štok, Darko Terlević)
- I STILL LIVE – MAJA GRGIĆ (Mateo Martinović Teo – Maja Grgić)
- I WILL WAIT – PATRICIA GASPARINI (Siniša Reljić - Simba, Lisa Desmond, Aidan Winkels - Lisa Desmond, Aidan Winkels - Siniša Reljić – Simba)
- KME KME – KREŠO I KISELE KIŠE (Krešimir Burić – ARR Matej Zec)
- KRENI DALJE – ENI JURIŠIĆ (Matija Cvek, Vlaho Arbulić, Eni Jurišić – Matija Cvek – Filip Majdak)
- LOST AND FOUND – THE SPLITTERS (Neven Kolarić, Branimir Mihaljević – Neven Kolarić – Branimir I Marko Mihaljević)
- LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT – YOGI (Yugomir Lonich)
- MAMA ŠČ! – LET 3 (Damir Martinović Mrle, Zoran Prodanović - Damir Martinović Mrle – LET 3)
- MASTER BLASTER – DETOUR (Nenad Borgudan)
- NESREĆA – HANA MAŠIĆ (Boris Subotić – ARR Darko Dimitrov)
- NEVERA (LEI,LEI) – HARMONIJA DISONANCE (Bartol Stopić - Sanja Daić, Bojan Petrović, Bartol Stopić - Anja Papa, Bartol Stopić, Luka Vidović)
- PUTEM SNOVA – BARBARA MUNJAS (Barbara Munjas, Alen Bernobić - Barbara Munjas - Alen Bernobić)
- PUTOVANJE – TOP OF THE POPS FT. MARIO 5REKOVIĆ (Bruno Krajcar - Danijel Načinović - Nikola Milat)
The four Back-up artists selected are:
1. SAMA - LANA MANDARIĆ LANCHI (Zorana Mandarić - Domagoj Perišić)
2. ODLAZI - MIRNA ŠKRGATIĆ (Mirna Škrgatić – ARR Tomislav Franjo Šušak)
3. ON THE SAME TRAIN - VOICE FOR YOU (Adi Karas – Adi Karas – Elvis Sršen, Adi Karas,Tvrtko Hrelec)
4. TALKING TO ME - ROSANNA KUMERLE (Rosanna Kumerle, William Naesh Hendriksen)Croatia in Eurovision
Croatia debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1993 with the group Put and their entry Don’t ever cry. In 1996 Maja Blagdan and in 1999 Doris Dragovic, finished in 4th place in the Grand Final, marking the country’s best results so far in the competition.
In 2020 Damir won the national final with his entry "Divlji Vjetre" but never had the chanece to perform on the Eurovision stage in Rotterdam as the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic. For 2021 HRT opted again for 'Dora' as the country's national selection format, which saw Albina triumphed with her song Tik-Tok. Despite her energetic performance on stage in Rotterdam in the 1st semi final , Albina didn't make it to the Grand final show.
This year Mia Dimšić represented Croatia at Eurovision 2022 with the song “Guilty Pleasure” missing out the final for one spot, as she finished 11th the 1st semi-final.
News Source/Image: HRT
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Angelos D.
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