Claudia Beni
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Claudia Beni is a pop music
singer from Croatia
.
At the time when she first participated in Dora, the national finals for the Eurovision Song Contest
, Claudia was only 12, but she was already an experienced band singer having performed all over Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Montenegro with the Teens - formerly known as Mići rokeri (Little Rockers).
After having enjoyed sales of almost 30,000 (this number cannot be confirmed as there is no system in Croatia to measure exact album sales, most figures are provided by record companies, therefore, there cannot be considered to be accurate) for three Teen albums and after receiving the 2002 Porin prize, Claudia broke away from the Teens. Her first 12-song solo album “Claudia” was released just before the summer of 2002. The singles “Tako hrabar da me ostaviš” (Brave Enough To Leave Me) (one of the songs in the Best New Album awarded at the Split Festival
2001), “Ili ona ili ja” (It’s Her or Me) (Zagrebfest 2001), and “Led” (Ice) (HRF 2002) put Claudia at the top of the charts (once again, there are no accurate means to measure single sales in Croatia, and such figures on which charts are based are known to be manipulated).
In 2003, Claudia represented Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2003
, singing "Više nisam tvoja
".
Claudia has also worked together with another member of the Croatian pop scene, Ivana Banfić
, singing the song “Hrvatice vas vole” (Croatian Women Love You), dedicated to the national football team during the World Championship in Japan which enjoyed no success.
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singer from Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
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At the time when she first participated in Dora, the national finals for the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...
, Claudia was only 12, but she was already an experienced band singer having performed all over Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Montenegro with the Teens - formerly known as Mići rokeri (Little Rockers).
After having enjoyed sales of almost 30,000 (this number cannot be confirmed as there is no system in Croatia to measure exact album sales, most figures are provided by record companies, therefore, there cannot be considered to be accurate) for three Teen albums and after receiving the 2002 Porin prize, Claudia broke away from the Teens. Her first 12-song solo album “Claudia” was released just before the summer of 2002. The singles “Tako hrabar da me ostaviš” (Brave Enough To Leave Me) (one of the songs in the Best New Album awarded at the Split Festival
Split Festival
The Split Festival is a pop music festival held annually in Split, Croatia. It has been held since 1960. It is one of the premier Croatian music festivals...
2001), “Ili ona ili ja” (It’s Her or Me) (Zagrebfest 2001), and “Led” (Ice) (HRF 2002) put Claudia at the top of the charts (once again, there are no accurate means to measure single sales in Croatia, and such figures on which charts are based are known to be manipulated).
In 2003, Claudia represented Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2003
Eurovision Song Contest 2003
The Eurovision Song Contest 2003 was the forty-eighth Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Skonto Hall in Riga, Latvia on 24 May 2003. The hosts were Marie N and Renārs Kaupers. Sertab Erener, the Turkish entrant, won the contest with "Everyway That I Can", scoring 167 points. The winning...
, singing "Više nisam tvoja
Više nisam tvoja
"Više nisam tvoja" was the Croatian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, performed bilingually in Croatian and English by Claudia Beni although there is not a bilingual version on record...
".
Claudia has also worked together with another member of the Croatian pop scene, Ivana Banfić
Ivana Banfic
Ivana Banfić is a Croatian dancer and pop singer. She became famous under the stage name I BEE in the 1990s during the period of popularity of dance music in Croatia....
, singing the song “Hrvatice vas vole” (Croatian Women Love You), dedicated to the national football team during the World Championship in Japan which enjoyed no success.