Martina Majerle
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Martina Majerle is a Croatian singer. Majerle represented Slovenia
Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest
Slovenia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 17 times, debuting at the 1993 contest after coming first the qualification round "Kvalifikacija za Millstreet", which was actually hosted in Slovenia itself, and competing in every year since, with the exceptions of 1994 and 2000, after poor...

 at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009
Eurovision Song Contest 2009
The Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was the 54th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest and was hosted by Russia after their win in 2008. It took place between 12 and 16 May 2009 at the Olympic Indoor Arena in Moscow, Russia....

 in Moscow
Moscow
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, Russia
Russia
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 with the string quartet Quartissimo
Quartissimo
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 with the song "Love Symphony
Love Symphony
"Love Symphony" is a song by string quartet Quartissimo and was the Slovene entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. The song was composed by Andrej Babić and Aleksandar Valenčić, and vocals were performed by Martina Majerle....

". It competed in the second semi-final but failed to reach the final. Martina was also backing vocalist for Croatia in Eurovision 2003, Slovenia 2007, Montenegro 2008 and once again Slovenia 2011. Majerle is of Slovene and Bosnian
Bosnians
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 origin.

She is a student of Economics.

She made her first serious steps into the world of music as the lead singer of the Rijeka band Putokazi. She continued her musical career as a soloist in the ambient-electro-pop band Atmospheric.

As a back vocalist, Martina performed at many concerts at home and abroad. She accompanied many famous musicians from the former Yugoslav region, amongst them were Oliver Dragojević
Oliver Dragojevic
Oliver Dragojević is one of the most popular Croatian pop singers. A native of Vela Luka from the island of Korčula, he emerged onto the music scene in the 1970s thanks to the popular Split Festival, one of several musical annual events which began in the former Yugoslavia and still is being held...

, Tereza Kesovija
Tereza Kesovija
Tereza Ana Kesovija is an internationally acclaimed Croatian singer, one of the most recognisable figures on the Balkan music scene, renowned for her wide vocal range and operatic style and one of the most important artists of the former Yugoslavia. She also had a very successful career in France...

 in Olympia (Paris), Zdravko Čolić
Zdravko Colic
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, the band Novi Fosili
Novi fosili
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, Severina, Massimo Savić, Nina Badrić
Nina Badric
Nina Badrić is a Croatian pop singer. Before starting her career in the entertainment industry she used to be a bank teller. She began performing in early 1990s, exploiting the sudden popularity of dance music, but her repertoire gradually became more mainstream...

, Vanna
Vanna (singer)
Ivana Ranilović-Vrdoljak is a pop singer from Croatia. She is also known with her artist name Vanna.-Biography:...

, Toni Cetinski
Toni Cetinski
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, Vesna Pisarović
Vesna Pisarovic
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, Radojka Šverko, Maja Blagdan
Maja Blagdan
Maja Blagdan is a Croatian pop singer.She began her singing career in a rock band, Stijene, in 1986.Later she had a solo career. Her first solo album was released in 1993....

, etc.

As a backing vocalist, Martina has performed at the Eurovision Song Contest four times before: in 2003 with the Croatian representative, Claudia Beni
Claudia Beni
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...

, in 2007 with the Slovene representative, Alenka Gotar
Alenka Gotar
Alenka Gotar is a Slovene soprano singer, born in Rodica pri Domžalah in 1977. With the song “Cvet z juga” , she represented Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland...

, in 2008 with the Montenegrin representative, Stefan Filipović
Stefan Filipovic
Stefan Filipović is a Montenegrin pop singer.- Biography :...

 and in 2011 with Slovene representative, Maja Keuc
Maja Keuc
Maja Keuc , is a singer who represented Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song "No One"....

.

Martina has recently become a member of the Croatian RTV orchestra and is involved in all the big projects regarding the Croatian national broadcaster.
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