Montenegro: Vladana Vučinić selected for Eurovision 2022

Tuesday, 04 January 2022

• RTCG, Montenegro's national broadcaster, revealed this morning that Vladana Vučinić has been selected as the country's Eurovision 2022 hopeful. 

  The music editor of the broadcaster and head of the Eurovision selection jury announced during the  morning show Dobro jutro Crna Goro  that Vladana Vučinić is assinged to represent Montenegro at Eurovision 2022, in Turin, Italy the followng May. 

  Although Vladana's song will be released in a future date, Montenegro's hopeful through a teaser video on Instagram stated: 

  “I know that life is in both black and white keys, and everyday is a brand new song. That’s why it’s interesting. We only realise what it means to fight for a life when it begins to hurt, and when the cure is the only mission. This is my song, my cure for Europe, and for the world.”

   

  A few words for Vladana

  Vladana Vucinic was born in Podgorica, Montenegro (then in Yugoslavia) and showed an interest in music at an early age. She inherited her musical interest from her mother who is North Macedonian. Vladana has finished primary and secondary music school “Vasa Pavic” in Podgorica, department of piano and opera. Vladana took part in many competitions and won many local and national awards in chamber music and solo performances.

  In 2003 she made her television debut in the “Intro-Karaoke show”, where she performed the song “The power of love” by Celine Dion on the commercial channel IN TV, where she won the first place which provided her to get into the final. Her debut single “Ostaces mi vjena ljubav” (“You’ll stay my love forever”) was performed on “Budva fest 2003” in Budva, Montenegro. In 2004 she released her single “Noc” (“Night”) which became a hit in Montenegro. A year after, she participed on the “Montevizija (Montenegrin preselection Eurovision contest) and had a duet with Dado Djurovic at the “Suncane Skale” festival in Herceg Novi, Montenegro.

  In 2006, she participated on the eurovision preselection contest “Evropesma-Europjesma” in Belgrade, Serbia with her friend Bojana Nenezic singing “Željna” which finished 15th.

  Vladana collaborated with director Nikola Vukčević on music videos, and the last, animated video "Sinner City" from the same titled debut album , premiered at the end of 2010 on the regional MTV station, making her the first soloist from Montenegro on the most famous music program, and broke the ice on MTVAdria.

  The Montenegrin act was selected among 24 submissions that were reviewed by a jury with criteria regaring the song, the lyrics and the promotional potenita of the entry. 

   

  Montengro in Eurovision

  Montenegro made its debut in the contest in 2007 as an independed country. It particpated until 2010 when it decided to withdraw due to financial reasons. In 2012 the country made its Eurovision comeback.

  In 2014 Sergej Ćetković and his song Moj svijet represented the country and achieved for the first time to qualify to the Grand final, ending in 19th place. One year later Knez with his entry Adio scored the country’s best result by finishing 13th in the Grand final. In 2017 Slavko Kalezić, finished 16th in the semi final with the song  Space. 

  In 2019  D Mol were crowned the winners of Montevizija 2019 , the country’s national final, and went on represeting Montenegro in Tel Aviv with their entry “Heaven”. Unfortunately for a fourth consecutive year the country didn’t make it to the final. In  2021 the balkan nation did not take part in the contest. 

   

  News Source: RTCG -Portalanalitika - n1m.com

   

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