Serbia: 2nd semifinal Pesma za Evroviziju

Tonight Serbia continues with their national selection: Pesma za Evroviziju. 16 songs will compete, an expert jury (50%) and televoters (50%). The show will start at 21:00 CET and you can watch it on YouTube.

Tonight’s songs are:

  1. Hurricane, “Zumi, zimi, zami”
  2. Nađa Terzić, “Devojka tvog dečka”
  3. Filarri, “Posle mene”
  4. Zejna, “Rumba”
  5. Frajile, “Neka, neka”
  6. Igor Vins & Bane Lalić, “Zato što volim”
  7. Petar Pupić, “Ako shvatim”
  8. Dzipsii, “Greh”
  9. Eegor, “Starac dana”
  10. Jovana Tomašević, “Kao grom iz vedra neba”
  11. Ivona Pantelić, “U noćima”
  12. Gift, “Liberta”
  13. Milan Bujaković, Zoran Todorović & Sanja Anastasija, “Fenomen”
  14. Aleksandar Simić & Nenad Osmanović, “Viva la vida”
  15. Drai, “Loše procene”
  16. Doris Milošević, “Tišina”

 

Hurricane won the 2020 national final with “Hasta la vista”. Due to COVID19 the festival was cancelled and Hurricane got a 2nd chance with “Loco Loco” in 2021. Note that the girls are not the girls of the original group, but new singers.
Zejna took part in last year’s national final and became 14th.
Bane Lalić also took part last year but didn’t survive the semifinal.
Ivona Pantelić became 12th last year.
Gift became 13th last year.
Milan Bujaković reached the 9th place in the 2020 final.

 

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