Serbia: Stefan Zdravković withdraws from the national final!

A week ago, the Serbian broadcaster, RTS, announced the participants’ list and song titles for the new Serbian national final “Pesma Za Evroviziju 2022“. However one of the participants, Stefan Zdravković, will not finally participate in the show!

Through his personal Instagram account Stefan confirmed that we will not be seeing him in the Serbian final this year.

The question was “How is your song for Beovizija?” and he answered saying

“About Beovizija, we will see each other either in the next or some other year”

The singer did not give any further explanation about his withdrawal, although when asked why giving up on such an opportunity for his career he answered

“Yes, Beovizija (and Eurovision) is of course a great opportunity but it’s not the only one. The Eurovision Song Contest will also be there next year, I’m not giving up on it. Everything comes in its time”

He also revealed that his song “Ljubi Svog Čoveka”, written by Valentina Vukomanović, was pop and it might end up being sung by some other singer, as she holds all the copyrights. Stefan mentioned that’s what he thinks should happen but he can not guarantee anything. RTS still has not confirmed anything about the song being sung by some other artist or mentioned another solution.

Last year Stefan Zdravković competed in The Voice of Bulgaria where he reached the Semi-finals.

The list of this year’s entries for Pesma Za Evroviziju 2022 currently looks as following:

1. Naiva – “Skidam”
2. Biber – “Dve godine i šes’ dana”
3. Marija Mirković – “Požuri, požuri”
4. Gift – “Haos”
5. Boris Subotić – “Vrati mi”
6. Marko Nikolić – “Dođi da te volim”
7. Vasco – “Znaš li”
8. Bane Lalić i MVP – “Tu gde je ljubav tu ne postoji mrak”
9. Ivana Vladović i Jovana Stanimirović – “Prijaće ti”
10. Marija Mikić – “Ljubav me inspiriše”
11. Julija – “Brižna”
12. Angellina – “Origami”
13. VIS Limunada – “Pesma ljubavi”
14. Aleksandar Vuksanović Aca Lukas – “Oskar”
15. Igor Simić – “Nisam ja”
16. Goca Tržan – “Fitilj”
17. Sanja Bogosavljević – “Priđi mi”
18. Dušan Svilar – “Samo ne reci da voliš”
19. Srđan Lazić – “Tražim te”
20. Julijana Vincan – “Istina i laži”
21. Jelena Pajić – “Pogledi”
22. Bojana Mašković – “Dama”
23. Zoe kida (Ana Radonjić) – “Bejbi”
24. Orkestar Aleksandra Sofronijevića – “Anđele moj”
25. Sara Jo – “Muškarčina” (Zabranjeno voće)
26. Mia – “Blanko”
27. Zejna Murkić – “Nema te”
28. Gramophonedzie – “Počinjem da ludim”
29. Zorja Pajić – “Zorja”
30. Lift – “Drama”
31. Konstrakta – “Corpore sano”
32. Ivona Pantelić – “Znam”
33. Rocher Etno Band – “Hajde sad nek’ svak peva”
34. Ana Stanić – “Put bez povratka”
35. Euterpa – “Nedostaješ”

Source: escbubble

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