Yugoslavia_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1991
Yugoslavia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 with the song "Brazil", written by Zoran Vračrvić and Dragana Šarić (Bebi Dol). The song was performed by Bebi Dol. The Yugoslav national broadcaster, JRT, organized a national final, JRT izbor za pjesmu Evrovizije – Sarajevo '91, to select its entry for the contest held in Rome, Italy. This was Yugoslavia's penultimate Eurovision entry in the Eurovision Song Contest.
| Eurovision Song Contest 1991 | ||||
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| Country |  Yugoslavia | |||
| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Jugovizija 1991 | |||
| Selection date(s) | 9 March 1991 | |||
| Selected entrant | Baby Doll | |||
| Selected song | "Brazil" | |||
| Selected songwriter(s) |
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| Finals performance | ||||
| Final result | 21st, 1 point | |||
| Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Jugovizija 1991
The Yugoslav national final to select their entry was held on 9 March 1991 at TV Studio A in Sarajevo, and was hosted by Draginja Balać and Senad Hadžifejzović. The formal name of the contest was JRT izbor za pjesmu Evrovizije – Sarajevo '91. There were 16 songs in the final, from all subnational public broadcasters.[1] This was the final Jugovizija participation for the broadcasters in Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia before declaring independence later in the same year.[2]
The winner was chosen by the votes of twenty-four jurors coming from eight broadcasting stations, one three-member jury for each of the subnational public broadcasters of JRT. Each jury was consisted of at least two professionals within the music industry, and one under age of 30. Each of the jurors gave points to their favorite songs according to a system with the ascending format of going from 1–3, 5 and finally 7 points. The subnational public broadcasters could vote for their own entries. The winning entry was "Brazil [sr]", performed by Serbian singer Bebi Dol, composed by Zoran Vračević and written by Bebi Dol herself.[3]
The tensions in Yugoslavia at the time were showing through Jugovizija. The contest was held under the presumption that an entry from Croatia's HTV wouldn't win the contest, with high tensions between the Yugoslav federal institutions led by the Serbian president Slobodan Milošević and the Croatian president Franjo Tuđman.[4] With Milošević excerting control over institutions Montenegro, Vojvodina and Kosovo - including the broadcasters - the three broadcasters were pressured to vote in a similar fashion to Serbia's RTB.[2] The winning song, "Brazil" by Bebi Dol, received points from Belgrade (Serbia), Titograd (Montenegro), Novi Sad (Vojvodina) and Priština (Kosovo), and received no points from Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Skopje (Macedonia) and Zagreb (Croatia). [5] The favourite candidate from Croatia, "Daj, obuci levisice" by Danijel Popović, received no points from Belgrade and Priština.[4][2]
| Draw | TV station | Artist | Song | Points | Place |
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| 1 |  HTV, Zagreb |
Tedi Spalato | "Gospode moj" | 29 | 5 |
| 2 |  TVBg, Belgrade |
Zorana Pavić | "Ritam ljubavi" | 26 | 6 |
| 3 | TVPr, Prishtina |
Milica Milisavljević-Dugalić | "Sta će nebo reći" | 20 | 10 |
| 4 | TVBg, Belgrade |
Bebi Dol | "Brazil" | 68 | 1 |
| 5 |  TVSl, Ljubljana |
Miran Rudan | "Ne reci goodbye" | 5 | 15 |
| 6 |  TVSa, Sarajevo |
Jelena Džoja | "Čuvaj se ljubavi" | 9 | 13 |
| 7 |  TVSk, Skopje |
Margarita Hristova | "Daj mi krilja" | 3 | 16 |
| 8 | TVNS, Novi Sad |
Vesna Ivić | "Ime" | 11 | 11 |
| 9 | HTV, Zagreb |
Ivana Banfić | "Daj, povedi me" | 57 | 3 |
| 10 | TVSl, Ljubljana |
Helena Blagne | "Navaden majski dan" | 25 | 7 |
| 11 | TVBg, Belgrade |
Šeri | "Da li već spavaš" | 6 | 14 |
| 12 | TVCg, Titograd |
Ponoćni express | "Pjesma o tebi" | 22 | 8 |
| 13 | TVNS, Novi Sad |
Tony Cetinski | "Marina" | 22 | 8 |
| 14 | HTV, Zagreb |
Daniel | "Ma daj obuci levisice" | 66 | 2 |
| 15 | TVSk, Skopje |
Anastasija Nizamova-Muhić | "Molitva" | 11 | 11 |
| 16 | TVSa, Sarajevo |
Zerina Cokoja | "Bez tebe" | 52 | 4 |
Underlined points were awarded by the competing broadcasters to their own songs.
| Detailed Jury Votes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Draw | Song | HTV | TVBg | TVPr | TVSl | TVSa | TVSk | TVNS | TVCg | Total | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | "Gospode moj" | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 29 | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | "Ritam ljubavi" | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 26 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | "Sta će nebo reći" | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | "Brazil" | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 68 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | "Ne reci goodbye" | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | "Čuvaj se ljubavi" | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | "Daj mi krilja" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | "Ime" | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | "Daj, povedi me" | 1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 57 | |||||||||
| 10 | "Navaden majski dan" | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 25 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | "Da li već spavaš" | 5 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | "Pjesma o tebi" | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | "Marina" | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 22 | ||||||||||||||
| 14 | "Ma daj obuci levisice" | 7 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 66 | |||||||||
| 15 | "Molitva" | 1 | 7 | 3 | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | "Bez tebe" | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 52 | |||||||||
Jury members
- HTV, Zagreb: Mirna Berend (chairperson), Stipica Kalogjera [hr],[lower-alpha 1] Danijela Bilbija, Ivica Krajač [hr][lower-alpha 2]
- TVBg, Belgrade: Majda Ropret (chairperson), Boba Stefanović, Katarina Gojković [sr], Laza Ristovski
- TVPr, Prishtina: Mirjana Bojović (chairperson), Ljiljana Đorđević, Dragan Nikolić, Anđela Karaferić
- TVSl, Ljubljana: Miša Molk (chairperson), Nino Robić [sl], Tomaž Domicelj [sl], Tanja Ribič[lower-alpha 3]
- TVSa, Sarajevo: Mirjana Potpara (chairperson), Fadil Redžić [bs], Jadranka Crnogorac, Anton Josipović
- TVSk, Skopje: Svetlana Stojanovska (chairperson), Mario Lipša, Jana Andreevska [mk], Stole Popov
- TVNS, Novi Sad: Hajnalka Buda (chairperson), Mladen Vranešević, Gordana Dean-Gačić, Jovan Adamov
- TVCG, Titograd: Melani Bulatović (chairperson), Goran Pejović, Aco Đukanović, Rade Keković
Bebi Dol was the first performer on the night of the Contest, preceding Iceland. At the close of the voting the song had received only 1 point, coming 21st in the field of 22 competing countries, beating only Austria.[6][7] The Yugoslav jury awarded its 12 points to Israel.
Voting
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- Yugoslav entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969
- Slovenian entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997
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