Bosnia-Herzegovina

Bosnia-Herzegovina
Artist - Dino Merlin
Song - Love In Rewind
Draw - Semi-Final 2, Place 1

Edin Dervišhalidović, more commonly known as Dino Merlin, is a popular singer/songwriter from Bosnia-Herzegovina. Not only is he popular in his own country, but also in the former Yugoslavian countries, such as Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Slovenia and Serbia. In 1983, he founded the band "Merlin". They had hit albums such as "Merlin" and "Peta strana svijeta". Dino wrote the first Bosnian National Anthem called "Jedna si, jedina". This was used until 1998. He wrote the Bosnian entry to Eurovision in 1993, and sung the entry in 1999, placing seventh.

On the 1st December 2010, it was announced that he had been internally selected to represent the Balkan country in May.

The song, "Love in Rewind", was both written and composed by Dino Merlin.

Current Betting Odds (William Hill) - 14/1
My Prediction - Obviously Bosnia will qualify. It's a catchy song, and has grown on me. Top ten.

                 Sretno!

Results of the ex-Yugoslavian poll!!

After 7 days of voting on the ex-Yugoslavian poll, we can now see the two qualifiers!

1. Bosnia-Herzegovina -  45%
2. Serbia - 26%
3. Slovenia - 25%
4. Croatia - 18%
5. FYR Macedonia - 2%

For the past few days, it has been a tight race for 2nd place between Serbia and Slovenia, but it looks like Serbia just grabbed it by 1 vote!

So now that Dino Merlin from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Nina from Serbia are added to the final, here is what the line up looks like so far -

Bosnia-Herzegovina, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Serbia and Sweden.

Make sure to vote on the Mediterranean and Former Soviet polls!!