Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
| Serbia | |
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| ◄ Serbia and Montenegro | |
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| Participating broadcaster | Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) |
| Participation summary | |
| Appearances | 9 |
| First appearance | 2006 |
| Highest placement | 3rd: 2007; 2010 |
| External links | |
| Serbia's page at rts.rs | |
The first participation of Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was at the 2006 contest in Romania, having previously participated in 2005 as part of Serbia and Montenegro. Serbia's best result was when they finished third place at both the 2007 and 2010 contests.
History
Serbia is one of two countries that participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest before in the Eurovision Song Contest. After Serbia and Montenegro dissolved in 2006, Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) decided to continue to take part in the contest. Their first entry as an independent state was in 2006, when Neustrašivi učitelji stranih jezika represented Serbia with "Učimo strane jezike", a song written in Serbian, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese coming fifth and received points from all participating countries.
In 2007 the Serbian representative was Nevena Božović with the ballad "Piši mi". She finished in third place and received points from all participating countries. Božović also represented Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 as a part of the group Moje 3.
Serbia's worst result was in 2008 when they were represented by Maja Mazić with "Uvek kad u nebo pogledam", which only received 12 points from Macedonia and finished in twelfth place. Mazić was spokesperson for Serbia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010.
Serbia competed at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009, held in Kiev, Ukraine. RTS held a national final to select the fourth Serbian entry for the contest in September 2009.[citation needed] The winner of pre-selection and Serbian representative in Kiev was the group Ništa Lično with pop-rock song "Onaj pravi". The group members were Anica Cvetković, the leading vocal, Aleksandar Graić, composer and pianist, who is a son of composer of "Molitva", winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, Una Krlić and Karolina Lodi, as the guitarists and Petar Cvetković, Anica's brother, with drums.
Sonja Škorić was chosen to represent Serbia in 2010 with Čarobna noć; the second ballad song to have represented Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.[citation needed] On 20 November 2010, Škorić performed fourth in the running order. The stage was dark, and there were blue lights on. Moving stars were on the LED screens. As the song was going on, lights became yellow, and then the whole stage was lighted. Sonja started singing alone on the stage, and she finished like that. Serbia finished this contest third, only 7 points behind the winner, scoring 113 points.
On 5 June 2011, it was announced that Serbia would withdraw from the 2011 contest.[1] RTS said that it's okay to miss participation from at least one edition, but the nation was absent for two further contests, in 2012 and 2013.[citation needed]
On 25 July 2014, Serbia announced its return to the 2014 contest, after a three-year absence.[2]
Serbia selected their 2014 entry through an internal selection for the first time in their history. On 1 October 2014 it was revealed that Emilija Đonin would represent Serbia in the contest with the song "Svet u mojim očima".[3] Đonin came tenth with 61 points. Juries from Bulgaria and Italy gave 12 points to Serbia. Đonin was part for International Kid's jury of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 for Serbia.
On 4 May 2015, it was announced on a Eurovision news website that Serbia's national broadcaster, RTS, have not started any planning in regards to participation at the 2015 contest, and that such decision would be taken after the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. On 20 August 2015, Serbia confirmed its participation.[4] On 21 September it was announced that Lena Stamenkovic will represent Serbia in Bulgaria in Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 performing Lena's Song.
“Lenina pesma”, which simply means “Lena’s Song” was written by Lena alongside Leontina Vukomanović, who co-wrote “Beauty Never Lies” for Serbia’s 2015 Eurovision representative, Bojana Stamenov, as well as “Lane moje” for Željko Joksimović. The arrangement was coordinated by Dušan Alagić who coordinated Serbian entry for Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014. Lena's song was released on 11 October 2015 in Lena's show, show organised by RTS. On 17 November Lena held her first rehearsal, and on 19 November, she had her second rehearsal. In Friday, the day before the show there were two dress rehearsal, and in one of them jury voted for the songs. In Saturday, 21 November 2015 was held 13th annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
Lena Stamenković opened the show. She was in red dress, and the performance followed the message of Lena's song. The song begins with Lena staring intensely down the camera as she describes the world we live in, with spotlights on her as the stage lights up in red and blue. A red puff of some from the back wall brings in the chorus, and as the song draws its close the back lights change to warmer red and yellow colours. Lena performed the song with light fog around her on the floor of the stage, and a wind machine adding to the drama as the fog moved around the performance area. Overall, Lena finished seventh, received 79 points. She received 12 points from Macedonia and Montenegro (from jury and televote both). Split jury/televote results were published on 21 December 2015. Lena finished fifth by jury, and eightht by televote.
Serbia was represented in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 by Dunja Jeličić, spokesperson for Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 On 6th October 2016, it was announced that 12 years old Jeličić will sing the song 'U La La La'. It’s an upbeat pop song with a strong message of anti-discrimination. She was participant in famous Balkan show 'Pinkove Zvezdice', like Lena Stamenković (Serbia 2015) and Martija Stanojković (F.Y.R. Macedonia 2016). Dunja performed on stage with the hoverboard and audience in arena enjoyed in it. Unfortunately, by receiving 14 points (5 from adult jury, 0 from jury experts and 9 from kids jury), Dunja came last.
On 15 June 2017. RTS announced a public tender for sending songs, which run until 1 September (firstly until 15 August). 18 songs were sent to the national broadcaster. Four of them were chosen to perform in the National Final that will be held on 30 September, but one of them withdrew. The song that will win jury vote will go to the 2017 contest. Irina Brodić and Jana Paunović won the National final with their song Ceo svet je naš which means 'The whole world is ours'. Irina and Jana did their first rehearsal on 22 November 2017. The second one was held two days later. One day before the Contest, on the 'jury rehearsal' girls received 48 points and came 8th. Online voting gave them 44 points and overall they placed 10th (By the way, after live show there was crash during 15 minutes online voting). In the live show, Irina and Jana performed 14th, with the chlotes[clarification needed] of 20s years style. Irina played the piano and Jana played the bass. On the stage dominated night moments with the stars, moon, butterflies and mountain.
On 15th June 2018. RTS announced a public tender for sending songs, which run until 1 September. The song which will represent Serbia will be chosen only by jury vote.
Contestants
- Table key
1st place 2nd place 3rd place Last place
| Year | Artist | Language | Title | Place | Points |
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| 2006 | Neustrašivi učitelji stranih jezika | Serbian1 | "Učimo strane jezike" (Учимо стране језике) | 5 | 81 |
| 2007 | Nevena Božović | Serbian | "Piši mi" (Пиши ми) | 3 | 120 |
| 2008 | Maja Mazić | Serbian | "Uvek kad u nebo pogledam" (Увек кад у небо погледам) | 12 | 37 |
| 2009 | Ništa lično | Serbian | "Onaj pravi" (Онај прави) | 10 | 34 |
| 2010 | Sonja Škorić | Serbian | "Čarobna noć" (Чаробна ноћ) | 3 | 113 |
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| 2014 | Emilija Đonin | Serbian | "Svet u mojim očima" (Свет у мојим очима) | 10 | 61 |
| 2015 | Lena Stamenković | Serbian | "Lenina pesma" (Ленина песма) | 7 | 79 |
| 2016 | Dunja Jeličić | Serbian | "U La La La" | 17 | 14 |
| 2017 | Irina Brodić & Jana Paunović | Serbian | "Ceo svet je naš" (Цео свет је наш) | 10 | 92 |
| 2018 | Serbian | ||||
Notes
National final
Izbor za dečju pesmu Evrovizije was Serbian way to chose their own representative to Junior Eurovision Song Contest from 2006 to 2010 and in 2017. In 2014, 2015 and 2016 Serbia chose their representative internal.
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Voting history
As of 2017, Serbia's voting history is as follows; Serbia gave its points:
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So far, Serbia received 12 points from Macedonia four times: in 2007, 2008, 2010 and in 2015; from Sweden in 2007; from Moldova in 2010 and from Montenegro in 2015.
In the history of contest, Serbia was competed with 29 different countries. So far, the nation didn't give points to Portugal, Latvia, San Marino, Ireland and they didn't receive points from Israel.
Commentators
The contests are broadcast online worldwide through the official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website junioreurovision.tv and YouTube. In 2015, the online broadcasts featured commentary in English by junioreurovision.tv editor Luke Fisher and 2011 Bulgarian Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrant Ivan Ivanov.[5] The Serbian broadcaster, RTS, sent their own commentators to each contest in order to provide commentary in the Serbian language. Spokespersons were also chosen by the national broadcaster in order to announce the awarding points from Serbia. The table below list the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2006.
| Year(s) | Commentator | Spokesperson |
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| 2006 | Duška Vučinić-Lučić | Milica Stanišić |
| 2007 | Anđelija Erić | |
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| 2009 | Nevena Božović | |
| 2010 | Maja Mazić | |
| 2011 | No broadcast | Did not participate |
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| 2014 | Silvana Grujić | Tamara Vasović |
| 2015 | Dunja Jeličić | |
| 2016 | Tomislav Radojević | |
| 2017 | Olga Kapor and Tamara Petković | Mina Grujić |
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See also
- Junior Eurovision Song Contest
- Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest
- Serbia in the Eurovision Young Musicians
- Serbia and Montenegro in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
- Serbia and Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest
- Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest
References
- ^ "RTS withdraws from JESC". ESCdaily. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
- ^ "Serbia returns to Junior Eurovision". JuniorEurovision.tv. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
- ^ Juhász, Ervin (1 October 2014). "Listen to Emilija Djonin's "Svet u mojim očima"". EBU. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
- ^ "Serbia takes confirmed countries up to 15". junioreurovision.tv. junioeurovision. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
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