Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991

Eurovision Song Contest 1991
Eurovision Song Contest 1991
Participating broadcaster	Jugoslavenska radiotelevizija (JRT)
Country	Yugoslavia
National selection
Selection process	Jugovizija 1991
Selection date(s)	9 March 1991
Selected artist(s)	Baby Doll
Selected song	"Brazil"
Selected songwriter(s)	Zoran Vračević; Dragana Šarić;
Finals performance
Final result	21st, 1 point
Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest

Yugoslavia was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 with the song "Brazil" (Бразил), composed by Zoran Vračrvić, with lyrics by Dragana Šarić, and performed by Šarić herself under her stage name Bebi Dol. The Yugoslavian participating broadcaster, Jugoslavenska radiotelevizija (JRT), organized a national final, JRT izbor za pjesmu Evrovizije – Sarajevo '91, to select its entry for the contest. This was the penultimate entry from Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Before Eurovision

Jugovizija 1991

TV Sarajevo (TVSa) staged the Yugoslav national final on 9 March 1991 at its television Studio A in Sarajevo, hosted by Draginja Balać and Senad Hadžifejzović.^[1] The formal name of the contest was JRT izbor za pjesmu Evrovizije – Sarajevo '91.^[2] There were 16 songs in the final, from all subnational public broadcasters.^[3] This was the final Jugovizija participation for the broadcasters in Croatia, Macedonia, and Slovenia before the countries declaring independence later in the same year.^[4]

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.^[5]

The tensions in Yugoslavia at the time were showing through Jugovizija. The contest was held under the presumption that an entry from Croatian TV (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.^[6] 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 Serbian TV Belgrade (TVBg).^[4] 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). ^[7] The favourite candidate from Croatia, "Daj, obuci levisice" by Danijel Popović, received no points from Belgrade and Priština.^[6]^[4]

Final – 9 March 1991
Draw	TV station	Artist	Song	Points	Place
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
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],^[a] Danijela Bilbija, Ivica Krajač [hr]^[b]
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^[c]
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

At Eurovision

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.^[8]^[9] The Yugoslav jury awarded its 12 points to Israel.

The contest was broadcast on TV Belgrade 1, TV Titograd 1, TV Novi Sad, TV Prishtina [sr; sq] with commentary by Mladen Popović [sr],^[10]^[11] and on HTV 1, TV Sarajevo 1, TV Slovenija 1 [sl], TV Skopje 1 with commentary by Ksenija Urličić.^[10]^[12]