#Branko Đurić (Film Actor)

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1997 Dublin - Number 11 - Tanja Ribič - "Zbudi Se"

Tanja Ribič was already famous in Slovenia in 1997. She was the lead in the TV comedy show Teater Paradižnik in which she played a slightly confused actress. Performing at EMA that year was a step in a different direction for her career.

She was third on at EMA with the beautiful song Zbudi Se (Wake Up), but had stiff competition from established singer Darja Švajger, the Slovenia entry in Eurovision 1995. It was close. Only 400 televotes separated the two, but Tanja got to sing her melancholy, fairy-tale inspired song on the Dublin stage.

Zbudi se is a gentle song of a lonely woman's lonely night. She's yearning for her prince. He doesn't show. Despite her tears, she continues to dream of him, until the morning when she is the one who must wake. Its wistful, winding melody is a delicate thing, alone and vulnerable. After a false ending, there's the resolution of a reawakening into reality of continued loneliness. The arrangement is a simple one with guitar and cello on stage, while the woodwind in the orchestra echo her hopeless serenade.

Rarely has a stage failed to fit a song as badly as this. The big arch had its lights turned off, leaving Tanja to stand alone in her deceptively simple white bridal night-dress, bathed in purple and blue surrounded by TVs. There she sings sadly about heartbreak, moons, tears and princes. It needed to be in a woodland or castle. It's so out of place bathed in the colours of a nightclub toilet.

It's hard not to notice how different this song is to most of the rest of the running order. It did well with those countries who were still using juries, not so well with those who had a televote. An old-fashioned ballad, it finished 10th on the night. This is currently Slovenia's second best ever result.

Tanja did diversify and recorded a couple of albums, but mainly stuck to TV and film acting. Her last musical hurrah was another attempt to get to Eurovision in 2018. Unfortunately she failed to make it through to the final of EMA that year.

She did marry her prince in the end. Her long-time collaborator and fellow actor Branko Đurić.

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