Vesna Pisarovic

Vesna Pisarovic is a Croatian pop and jazz singer. Pisarovic was born in Brcko, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia and grew up in Pozega, Croatia, a part of the same country until she was 13. From her earliest childhood she attended a music school, where she played the flute, sang in choirs and participated in various music contests. In the mid-1990s she moved to Zagreb, Croatia, where she graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She began singing in clubs and writing songs. In 1997, while performing at the Croatian festival Zadarfest, she met Milana Vlaovic. Vlaovic started to write songs for Vesna. In 2002 Vesna Pisarovic won the annual Dora festival, the event that determines Croatia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. Her song "Everything I Want" placed 11th in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002. She wrote the song "In the Disco" for the Bosnian vocalist Deen, which represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. Pisarovic's eighth studio and third jazz album, "Petit Standard", was released in March 2019 through the German jazz label Jazzwerkstatt. She embarked on her Petit Standard Tour later in July. On 5 October 2019 in an interview with Narodni radio Pisarovic revealed that she has been working on her upcoming pop album since 2006. Since then she has written over 30 songs. The recording process for the album will start in early 2020.