The Croatian jury for Eurojury 2020 is formed of three members, consisting of Beta Sudar, Elis Lovrić, and Mia Negovetić.
Each voting nation is represented by a jury consisting of past Eurovision, Junior Eurovision, national final participants and special guests. Each juror is asked to form a ranking of their favourite competing songs which is combined with the other jurors in their country.
Beta Sudar
Beta Sudar was born on May 14th 1999 in Osijek, Croatia. She began singing at a young age, having participated in the Supertalent TV Show in 2016 and finishing in 4th place. From there, she began a collaboration with author and producer Predrag Martinjak, and signed a contract with the record label Bonton Music, releasing her first two singles. Once she graduated from school in 2018, she moved to the capital Zagreb to officially start her singing career.
In 2019, she participated in the Croatian Eurovision selection show, Dora, and has since released her single “I Am That”.
More information can be found through her Instagram and Facebook pages.
Elis Lovrić
Elis Lovrić has had a very impressive and varied career. Her musical style is known for the blend of acoustic guitar and traditional instruments. She takes great inspiration from her home region of Istria.
In more recent years she began creating and producing her first original musical “Kolarići” in 2014 before performing Croatia’s National Anthem at the 59th Pula Film Festival. In 2017 she released her album “Merika”. In addition to singing in her native language, she sings in English, Portuguese, Italian and German.
Later she became more well known to Eurovision audiences thanks to her appearances in Croatian selection show Dora in 2019 and 2020. At the competition she sang her songs “All I Really Want” and “Jušto” respectively.
More information can be found through her Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages.
Mia Negovetić
Mia Negovetić was born on 5th October 2002 in Rijeka, Croatia. The singer-songwriter is best known for winning the first season of Zvjezdice in 2015. The next year she appeared on Little Big Shots where she performed her rendition of Beyoncé’s “Listen”, and has released multiple singles since. Mia is no stranger to performing, having headlined multiple concerts at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall in the Croatian capital, Zagreb.
In 2020, Mia took part in Croatia’s Eurovision selection Dora, finishing in second place with her song “When it Comes to You”.
More information can be found through her Instagram, Facebook and YouTube pages.
The Croatian Votes
As revealed previously, in alphabetical order, the top 10 countries selected by the Croatian jury are:
- Bulgaria
- Cyprus (Top 3)
- Denmark (Top 3)
- Greece
- Lithuania
- North Macedonia
- Romania
- Serbia
- Sweden (Top 3)
- Switzerland
Croatia will feature in the 10th position in the first semi final of Eurojury 2020 on Monday the 27th of April. Croatia were due to be represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 by Damir Kedžo with the song “Divlji vjetre”.
About Eurojury 2020
Eurojury will return in 2020 for the eighth broadcast of the most accurate simulation of Eurovision results. 180 Eurovision winners, past participants, national finalists and a handful of special guests are due to take part in this year’s edition, which will be broadcast live on Showcase, by Eurovoix on May 1st.
For the past two years, Eurojury has correctly identified the winner of Eurovision with both Netta and Duncan Laurence topping the overall leaderboard in Eurojury and the Eurovision Song Contest itself. Eurojury also correctly identified four out of the top five acts in the final in Tel Aviv.
For a fifth consecutive year, Rob Lilley will present the coverage. This will be the third time he has been the sole presenter following two editions with a co-host – 2016 with Karl William Lund and in 2019 with Alice Chapman.
Directing the show once again will be Samuel Deakin – he has conducted this role on every edition of Eurojury. Heading up the production will be James Rowe after he co-produced the broadcast in 2019.
We’re pleased that we have partnerships with multiple trusted Eurovision brands this year: Eurovision Hub, Aussievision, ESCXTRA, Eurovision Showcase and The Euro Trip. Each brand will be supporting Eurojury 2020 in the run-up to the three broadcasts on April April 27, April 29 and May 01.
Follow all the latest updates about this year’s broadcasts on eurovoix.com as well as on Twitter, @Eurovoix and @Eurojury2020.
