Croatia: The participants of Dora 2023 have been announced!

Croatia’s national broadcaster HRT has announced the artists who will compete in Dora 2023, the country’s national final for Eurovision 2023.

From a total of 196 submitted songs, a jury consisting of Željko Mesar, Zlatko Turkalj, Robert Urlić, Ema Gross, Igor Geržina, Željen Klašterka, Ivan Horvat, Tomislav Krizmanić and Dražen Miocić selected 18 entries to compete to represent the country on February 11 and 4 more as back-up.

Among them, as it was already revealed, is Damir Kedžo, who was the winner of Dora 2020 and would have represented the country in the competition had the event not been cancelled. It is also worth noting that the composer of Hana Mašić‘s song Accident is Darko Dimitrov, a distinguished songwriter with a plethora of Eurovision and National Finals entries in the Balkan countries.

The participants of Dora 2023 are:

ANGELS AND DEMONS – DAMIR KEDŽO
BYE BYE BLONDE – MERI ANDRAKOVIĆ
DISTANCE – MARTHA MAY
DOM – TAJANA BELINA
FREE FALIN’ – ĐANA
GRIJEH – BORIS ŠTOK – GRIJEH
I STILL LIVE – MAJA GRGIĆ
I WILL WAIT – PATRICIA GASPARINI
KME KME – KREŠO I KISELE KIŠE
KRENI DALJE – ENI JURIŠIĆ
LOST AND FOUND – THE SPLITTERS
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT – YOGI
MAMA ŠČ! – LET 3
MASTER BLASTER – DETOUR
NESREĆA – HANA MAŠIĆ
NEVERA (LEI,LEI) – HARMONIJA DISONANCE
PUTEM SNOVA – BARBARA MUNJAS
PUTOVANJE – TOP OF THE POPS FT. MARIO 5REKOVIĆ

In the event that one/some of the above participants do not compete, the following have been appointed as back-up entries:

SAMA – LANA MANDARIĆ LANCHI
ODLAZI – MIRNA ŠKRGATI
ON THE SAME TRAIN – VOICE FOR YOU
TALKING TO ME – ROSANNA KUMERLE

This year Croatia was represented by Mia Dimšić and the song “Guilty Pleasure“, but failed to make it to the Eurovision Song Contest Final, finishing in 11th place in the First Semi-Final for the second time in a row.

Will Croatia be able to break their curse of 11th place this time? Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all things related to Eurovision!

Source: HRT