Slovenia: Joker Out selected for Eurovision 2023
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The Slovenian national broadcaster, RTVSLO, announced today that they have selected the band 'Joker Out' to represent the nation at Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool.
While we are in a Junior Eurovision mood these days, the breraking news for Eurovision 2023 came from another European corner, as Slovenia revealed their Eurovision hopefuls for Liverpool.
This marks the second time RTVSLO is internally selecting their Eurovision representative, as most of the times it has been a national selection determining the coutry's ESC acts and entries.
A few words for 'Joker Out'
Joker Out is a pop rock band that has been operating since 2016. They describe their style as "shagadelic rock'n'roll."
The band formed in May 2016, following the break-up of the Apocalypse group, which sycabbed bojan cvjetićanin, Martin Jurkovič, Matic Kovačič and Luka Škerlep. Three of them – Cvjetićaninu, Jurkovič and Kovačič – were joined by Kris Guštin and Jan Peteh of the Bourgeage group and the Joker Out was formed. Their first public appearance was at the Gaju Festival (21 May). In November, they released their first single "Like a Blood-Driven Heart," for which they also recorded their first music video.
After several single published from 2016 to 2022, their debut album Dirty Thoughts was released in October 2021. It was originally due to be released as early as April 2020, but its outcome was postponed several times due to a coronavirus pandemic. On October 10, it was announced on Instagram that the band was being abandoned by bassist Martin Jurkovič (due to study abroad). For now, they continue as a quartet, accompanied by Nace Jordan.
During the press conference with RTVSLO, frontman Bojan Cvjetićanin revealed:
“We talked about the Eurovision Song Contest years ago, but we were waiting for the right moment, which is obviously now.”
Their Eurovision song has already been selected and will be in Slovenian. The band will proceed with the recording of the song the coming weekend in Hamburg.
Slovenia in Eurovision
Slovenia participated at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1993 with 1X Band and hasn’t won yet the competition. The country’s best results in the contest are the 7th placings, achieved in 1995 (Darja Svajger) and 2001 (Nusa Derenda).
Slovenia has competed 26 times in the contest since their debut in 1993, and has only missed out the contests of 1994 and 2000 when it had to stay out of the event due to the rules of the competition at that time.
In 2020, Ana Soklič won the national final with her entry ‘Voda’, EMA 2020, back in February and earned the right to represent Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam. Unfortunately the Slovenian act saw her Eurovision journey stay incomplete as the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 outbreak. Nevertheless the Slovenian act was chosen internally for Eurovision 2021 having a second chance to complete her ESC journey in Rotterdam where she performed the song "Amen" in the 1st Semi final but failed to qualiied to the Grand final show.
In the 2022 edition in Turin LPS won the EMA national final with their song 'Disko' which last in their semi final failing to reach the Grand final show.
News Source: RTVSLO
Image: Joker Out FB
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