Croatia | Roko Blažević will sing "The Dream" at Eurovision 2019
Roko is the winner of Dora and Croatia's Eurovision representative for Eurovision 2019, with the song "The Dream". The song was written by Eurovision 2017 representative for Croatia, Jacques Houdek. HRT is bringing the show back for the first time since 2010! Dora - Croatian national selection for Eurovision, is back on our screens, in its well-known and successful format, and hopefully, for many more years to come! We have seen 16 act competing for the prestigious Dora trop
Croatia | Jacques Houdek reveals his hopeful for Dora!
Some time ago, Jacques Houdek, Croatian representative in Eurovision 2017, with his song "My friend", revealed that he will take another shot at Eurovision – this time as a composer! It was speculated that his hopeful could be Roko Blažević – who won popular talent show Pinkove Zvedice in 2017 and who was a finalist and runner-up in the music show Zvijezde, where Jacques was his mentor. Some of Roko's musical idols are Eurovision stars Jacques, Tony Cetinski and Toše Proeski.
Croatia | Dora 2019 live from the Press Conference
Today HRT held the official press conference on the return of Dora and team #TeamEurovoxx were there live! Read down for everything you need to know about the return of the successful national selection format in Croatia. Photo Credit: Eurofest Croatia After 5 years of internal selections, HRT has made the decision to bring Dora back. Many Eurovision artists were present at the official press conference, including Croatia's latest Eurovision stars - Franka and Jacques Houdek,
Croatia | More Details Of Dora 2019 Released
A total of sixteen songs will compete at the Croatian national final 'Dora 2019' according to Croatian newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija. One of these will be the countries next representative at the Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Tel Aviv in May next year. The paper, also suggests that the reinvigorated national final will be overseen by Uršula Tolj, who has been the nations spokesperson at the contest, whilst the job of Head of Delegation will go to Željen Klašterka. Thi
Croatia | Jacques Houdek to be a part of Dora 2019
Jacques Houdek has announced that he will be applying to take part in Dora 2019, not as a singer, but as a songwriter instead. Jacques has previously participated in Dora in 2011 as a singer, where he finished runner up to Daria. He has expressed an interest in participating in Dora 2019 and having the chance to represent his country at Eurovision for a second time, but only as a songwriter, as he explains: "As a performer, I gave my maximum performance in Kiev, so let's stay
Croatia | Dora To Return As National Selection
Today, the Director General of HRT has confirmed that Dora shall be returning as the format to select Croatia's Eurovision Song Contest entry for 2019. Last week, Croatia confirmed they will be competed in Eurovision for the fourth successive year, after a break of two years, and for the first time since they returned to the contest, will be using a national selection final to select their song, and the popular old format of Dora. This comes after a shake up in programming cu
Croatia | HRT Confirm Eurovision 2019 Participation
According to Eurosong.hr, a Croatian website that reports on Eurovision, Croatia have confirmed their attendance at Eurovision 2019 in Tel Aviv. It will be the fourth appearance in a row for Croatia, after a short absence in 2014 and 2015 following them failing to qualify for the final between 2010 and 2013. The news was confirmed by new head of delegation Željan Klašterka, where they stated: "As a new project manager and the head of Croatian Eurovision 2019 delegation, I con
Croatia 2018 | Is marriage on the cards for Franka?
Six years on from the beginning of their relationship, their love is still blooming. Franka Batelić, as she says, made her dreams come true with her performance at Eurovision, and her biggest fan, although he could not be with her because of football obligations, was her partner Vedran Ćorluka. Now he is in front of one of the biggest challenges of his career - the World Cup in Russia where Franka will be there to cheer him on. Today, as she wrote, she had a discharge of emot
'That little girl inside me never stopped dreaming and now that dream is coming true!' says
She is beautiful, she is talented, and she is ... Franka Batelić . After several weeks of speculation, it is finally confirmed, that at the 63rd Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held in Portugal this year, Croatia will be represented by Franko Batelić. She will be present with her entry 'Crazy' - The song is written by herself. Today, she announced the great news to her fans saying: 'Who says dreams do not come true? People, I am delighted to share this greaaaat news
Croatia | Three Names Rumoured As Next Representative
It was highly expected and rumoured the Croatian broadcaster HRT would be returning to the national selection format "Dora" to find their next representative, but this week, it has come out Croatia could infact be selecting internally again and three names are top of the list. The names within the rumour mill are: Damir Kedžo, Franka Batelić and Indira Levak. Indira has been a judge on The Voice Croatia since 2015, and if selected would keep in theme in every artist being lin
