Vesna Pisarović is a Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

n pop singer.

Pisarović was born in Brčko

Brcko (city)

Brčko is a city in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, administrative seat of the Brčko District. It lies on the country's border along the Sava river across from Gunja, Croatia...

, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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 and grew up in Požega, Croatia

Požega, Croatia

Požega is a city in western Slavonia, eastern Croatia, with a total population of 26,403 . It is the administrative center of the Požega-Slavonia County.-Geography:...

, a part of the same country until she was 13. From her earliest childhood she attended a music school, where she played the flute, sang in choirs and participated in various music contests.

In the mid-1990s she moved to Zagreb

Zagreb

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, Croatia, where she graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences or the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb is one of the top faculties of the University of Zagreb.-History:...

. She began singing in clubs and writing songs. In 1997, while performing at the Croatian festival Zadarfest

Zadarfest

Zadarfest is a music festival held annually in Zadar, Croatia. The festival was first held in 1993.The festival gives out several awards, its highest being the Grand Prix.- Festival winners :*1993 - Gibonni with "Život me umorio"...

, she met Milana Vlaović. Vlaović started to write songs for Vesna.

In 2002 Vesna Pisarović won the annual Dora festival, the event that determines Croatia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

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. Her song "Everything I Want

Everything I Want

"Everything I Want" was the Croatian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002, performed in English by Vesna Pisarović.The song was performed sixth on the night...

" placed 11th in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002

Eurovision Song Contest 2002

The Eurovision Song Contest 2002 was the 47th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place on 25 May 2002 at the Saku Suurhall Arena in Tallinn, Estonia....

. She wrote the song "In the Disco" which represented Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

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 at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004

Eurovision Song Contest 2004

The Eurovision Song Contest 2004, was the 49th Contest and it was held in the Abdi İpekçi Arena in Istanbul, Turkey. This was the first occasion in which the contest was held in Turkey after they had won the competition in 2003 with Sertab Erener singing "Everyway That I Can"...

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Discography

• 2000 Da znaš
• 2001 Za tebe stvorena
• 2002 Kao da je vrijeme
• 2003 Best of
• 2003 Pjesma mi je sve
• 2005 V. peti

1. "If You Knew" (Da znaš), released in 2000, and the best-selling debut album in Croatia
   Croatia
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    that year (including hits "Da znaš", "Poslije svega", "Sve na svijetu" and "Ja čekam noć"), and
2. "Made for you" (Za tebe stvorena), released in 2001 (including hits "Za tebe stvorena", "Da je meni (oko moje)", "Da sutra umrem" and "Jutro donosi kraj").
3. "Everything I want", is a song that Vesna represented on "Eurovision Song Contest" in 2002, 2002
4. "As if it were time" (Kao da je vrijeme), is Vesna's 3rd album in Croatia, but also her debut-album in Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. It includes hits like "Kao da je vrijeme...", "Sasvim sigurna", "Bježi od mene" and "Ivane", 2002
5. "Best of", released in 2003
6. "Singing is everything to me" (Pjesma mi je sve), includes hits "Dolje na koljena", "Ljubomora", "Ne dam da odeš", "Spremna sam" and "Svrha ljubavi". It was released in 2003
7. "Five" (Peti). Vesna has 8 singles from this album, that contains very different genres: pop-rock ("Hypohondar", "Ti si kriv"), electro sound ("Zašto mi lažeš", "Srela sam anđela"), jazz ("Stranac"), folk ("Ovo nije moje vrijeme") ballad ("Neka ljudi govore", "Ti ne znaš što je ljubav")... 2005

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