Saturday, March 16, 2019

Croatia - Roko Blažević - The Dream

Digital release image The Dream
14 - 64 pts in semi 2
Croatia's selection DORA 2019 was won by Roko Blažević and his song The Dream.
The Dream is written by Jacques Houdek, Andrea Ćurić and Charlie Mason.
The song is sung in English and Croatian.
Watch the live performance here at HRT's Youtube.
The song was originally recorded in Croatian as Heroj and Charlie Mason wrote the English lyrics afterwards.

The Dream and Heroj have been released as digital single tracks. (as Roko).
The full English version can only be found on the USB promos.

Two USB's (one card, one wristband) were used for promotion.
They have the ESC version, Croatian and English. Also includes, videos, photos and info.

All songs from this years DORA have been released on the CD Dora 2019 (Croatia records). Now available at BeaRecords
See comments.
The album is also available through digital sources

Digital release image Heroj
The composers:
Lyricist Charlie Mason wrote the words to the 2014 winner Rise Like A Phoenix. He also co-wrote the Slovenian entry of the same year. The English parts of L'Amore è Femmina (Italy 2012) are also by his hand.
Jacques Houdek represented Croatia in Kyiv with My Friend and ended 13th.

Versions
The Dream - English/Croatian
- digital release, on Dora 2019 CD, Tel Aviv 2CD
Heroj - Croatian
- digital release,  Youtube
The Dream - English
- promo USB card 
The Dream - karaoke (= instrumental)
- digital release
The Dora 2019 album
Pic from Roko's Facebook
Links and sources
Croatia 2018 has links to all Croatian entries from 2009 on.
Roko Blažević FB
Roko interview at Novolist.hr
Thanks to Jens and to Nigel.

1 comment:

  1. The "Dora 2019" album is also availabe on CD and can be purchased here:

    https://shop.crorec.hr/crorec.hr/ws_o_izdanju.php?IZDANJE_ID=1006013

    https://www.amazon.de/DORA-2019-VARIOUS-ARTISTS/dp/B07NVFZCVK/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1551202524&sr=1-1&keywords=dora+2019

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