IVANA VRDOLJAK – VANNA

Favorite Croatian singer, known as the work of the dance group, ET, and the rich solo career, crowned with discographic successes.

In March 2000. performance at Dora, the Croatian selection for Eurovision Song Contest, where the song and John Bruno Kovacic Plechinger "The River" won second place. That same year, again won the Porin for best female vocal performance with opponents Nina Badric and Zdenka Kovacicek. By signing up on the competition, was admitted in the Croatian community of artists. The song "The River" became one of the most listened songs of that period and effective announcement of the new album. Another studio album, titled "24 hours", released May 12, 2000th and became one of the most listened-to and best-selling albums of the year. Immediately became a hit song, "You are mistaken," a few months later and the song "If it was worth anything," with which Vanna for the first time appearances on Melodies of the Croatian Adriatic and wins the prize for the most complete work. In September he went to America, where he was invited to American students from the Rochester Institute hold a concert and sing the American anthem. In the fall of that year re-appears at the Zadar Festival, where he won with the song Ante Pecotic "Help me now." Shortly thereafter, 25.10.2000. accompanied by his band and orchestra "Windstrings" Alan Bjelinski maintains a spectacular solo concert in the hall Lisinski, who the following year recorded the album "In Zagreb Vanna."