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Lea Sirk

© EBU/Andres Putting

About

Quick Facts

Name
Lea Sirk

Born
01 September 1989

Nationality
🇸🇮 Slovenian

National Selection
EMA 2018
EMA 2010
EMA 2009

In Eurovision
2018 Lisbon

Song
Hvala, ne! (2018)

Biography

Lea Sirk is a Slovenian singer. She was born in Koper, Slovenia.

Lea Sirk studied flute at the Geneva Conservatory of Music. In 2004, she performed at the festival of FeNS with the song “Kitarist” and a year later with the song “Pustite me živeti”. In 2005, she was awarded the Most Promising Singer Award at the Cologne International Competition for Orchestras and Soloists.

Lea became known to the general public through her participation in Season 3 of the Bitke Talentov. After this, the door to all major Slovenian music festivals opened. In 2007 she performed on Melodijah Morja in Sonca, in a duet with Jasno Jug.  In 2009 and 2010 she participated in EMA, the national final for the Eurovision Song Contest. ​​In 2011, she attended the national final for the Eurovision Song Contest as a member of the group Leaparfume, but dropped out after the first appearance.

Lea has also sung extensively as a backing vocalist. In 2014 she accompanied Tinkara Kovac at the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen and in 2016 ManuElla in Stockholm. She also writes songs herself. Between 2012 and 2014, she sang in the house band of the show Moja Slovenija. In 2014, her debut album “Roža” came out.

In 2018, she won EMA and represented Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon with the song “Hvala, ne!”. In the same year, her 2nd album “2018” was released. In 2021, she took part in the Slovenska popevka festival.

Entries

Hvala, ne!

Country
🇸🇮 Slovenia

Year
2018

Language
Slovenian

Lyrics
Lea Sirk

Music
Lea Sirk
Tomy Declerque

Backings
Karin Zemljič
Karin Putri
Tajda Kožamelj
Veronika Škrlj
Anja Möderndorfer

Results Semi

Points: 132
Position: 8
Running order: 17

Results Finals

Points: 64
Position: 22
Running order: 3