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Serbian singer (born 1993) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Stefan Zdravković (Serbian Cyrillic: Стефан Здравковић; born 29 September 1993),[citation needed] known professionally as Princ od Vranje (Serbian Cyrillic: Принц од Врање, lit. 'Prince of Vranje') or simply Princ, is a Serbian singer. He represented Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Mila".
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Early life and education
Stefan Zdravković was born in Vranje, and has lived in Belgrade since 2002.[1][2] He was the Serbian national champion and vice-champion in karate, and also competed for the national team.[1][3] In high school, at the age of 15, he began to play music, when he founded the band Šesta Žica with his friends.[1][4] He is a philologist by profession, having graduated from the Department of Scandinavian Languages, Literature and Culture, Norwegian Language, at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology.[3]
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2016–2021: Early career
Zdravković sings, plays the guitar and drums.[3] Since 2016, he has been the lead singer of the band Sisyphus.[3][4] In 2020, he was cast in the lead role in the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, organized by the Cultural Center of the Student City.[1][3][5]
He has participated in many festivals, such as the Slavyanski Bazaar in Belarus.[1] He is the winner of the International Music Competition "River Notes" in Bulgaria,[6] and also won one of the largest music festivals in Malta.[4] In addition to the aforementioned, he has also participated in festivals in Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Italy and Spain.[2] He wrote the song "Lepo moje Vranje", which was sung by his friend Đorđe Popović.[4] In Glasat na Bulgaria, out of 4,000 applicants, he entered the top 12, i.e. the semi-finals, in 2021.[5][7][8]
2022–2024: Pesma za Evroviziju '22 and '23
On 14 January 2022, it was announced that Princ was one of thirty-six entries selected for Pesma za Evroviziju '22.[9][10] On 19 January 2022, however, he announced his withdrawal from the contest due to conflicts with songwriter Leontina regarding the song "Ljubi svog čoveka". The song was instead performed by Tijana Dapčević, who had represented Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, under an altered version titled "Ljubi, ljubi doveka".[11][12]
The following year, in 2023, it was announced that Princ would participate in the Pesma za Evroviziju '23 with the song "Cvet sa istoka", written by Dušan Bačić and arranged by Dejan Nikolić.[13][14] The published voting results showed that Princ won the most audience votes in both the first semi-final and the final, but in the final total with the jury votes, he came in second place, just behind Luke Black.[15]
2025–present: Eurovision Song Contest and Mila
In December 2024, Princ was announced as a contestant in Pesma za Evroviziju '25 with the song "Mila".[16] After qualifying for the second semi-final, he won the competition on 28 February 2025.[17] On 2 May, Princ released his debut studio album, Mila, featuring the aforementioned title track.[18][19] At the Eurovision Song Contest in Switzerland, he participated in the second semi-final, held on 15 May, but failed to qualify to the grand final. This marked the first time since 2017 that Serbia failed to qualify to the final, and fourth overall.[20] It was later revealed that he placed 14th out of 16 participants in the second semi-final, making him the worst placed Serbian entrant in the contest ever.[21]
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