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Eva Boto

About

Quick Facts

Name
Eva Boto

Born
01 December 1995

Nationality
🇸🇮 Slovenian

National Selection
Misija Evrovizija 2012

In Eurovision
2012 Baku

Song
Verjamem (2012)

Biography

Eva Boto is a Slovenian singer from  Šentjanž.  As a 10-year-old girl, she performed at the Super Chris International Song Contest in Austria and won. She has also participated at the FeNS Youth Festival, where she reached 1st place in 2008 and became third in 2009. In 2010 she was proclaimed the most talented singer in Ljubljana.

She became known to the wider Slovenian public by participating in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the song “Verjamem”. In the same year she attended another Slovenian festival – Melodij morja in sonca, where she presented the song “Dvigni mi krila” and became 2nd. She also performed at Poletni noči, an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of Slovenian Song. The year 2012 was also marked by a collaboration with Jan Plestenjak on the song “To leto bo moje”, one of the biggest Slovenian hits of the year. In 2013, she released the song “Plus in Minus,” and in 2014 she wrote “Na kožo pisana”, for which she also recorded a video. In 2015, she participated in the Slove’n’aid project and recorded with her 15 other Slovenian musicians the charity single “En svet”.

After graduating from high school, she enrolled in the Faculty of Education in Maribor. In September 2014, she won the grand prix at the International Festival for Young Singers of Silver Yantra in Bulgaria, and in November she was second at the Doua Inimi Gemene Festival in Moldova. In 2015, she joined the group Black Cat. In 2016, she won another Slovenian song contest with the ballad “Kaj je to življenje”.

She participated in season 5 of The Famous show Znan obraz ima svoj glas (=Your face sounds familiar). In November 2019, her debut album, “Ko najdeš sebe” was released.

In the years 2020/21, she released the singles ‘Zavedno,’ ‘Ti,’ ‘Ko najdeš sebe,’ and ‘Kdo ti bo dušo dal.’ With these, she won the most points from the audience and radio stations at the Melodijah morja in sonca 2021.

In 2022, she marked 10 years of her career with a series of concerts throughout Slovenia. That same year, she released two more singles, ‘Misliš na njo’ and ‘Nočem, da greš,’ which were very well received by the public. In 2022, she released her first Christmas song ‘Za božič kot otrok,’ which was one of the most frequently played Christmas songs on Slovenian radio stations that year. In the summer of 2023, she released the song ‘Sam da ne zebe.'”

Entries

Verjamem

Country
🇸🇮 Slovenia

Year
2012

Language
Slovenian

Lyrics
Igor Pirković

Music
Vladimir Graić
Hari Varešanović

Backings
Hari Varešanović
Izudin Kolečić
Karlo Martinović
Nihad Voloder

Results Semi

Points: 31
Position: 17
Running order: 9

Results Finals

Points: –
Position: –
Running order: –