The Croatian entry will be announced at Dora in March. This year's Dora will consist of two shows. At the first show, the previous Dora winners will perform their songs which they have represented the Balkan state at the previous Eurovision Song Contest editions. Also, at the first 2012 Dora show, the audience will decide which is the best winner song of the last nineteen editions. At the second gala, HRT will announce the entry that will be performed by Nina Badrić in Azerbaijan in May.
Before the official announcement of HRT, Nina Badrić commented on her Twitter account that she would be the Croatian voice for Eurovision Song Contest. Later on, the Croatian broadcasting system, confirmed this news.
Nina Badrić is well known e in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Slovenia. She tried to win the ticket to Eurovision four times (1993, 1994, 1995, and 2003). Nowadays, Nina Badrić has ten albums behind her, NeBo being her latest one.
In 2011, Daria Kinzer represented Croatia with Celebrate, which ended 15th in the semi-final, a result that was not enough for qualifying to the final. Croatia have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest since 1993, where Put sang Don't Ever Cry, to a 15th position. During these years, the Balkan state have ended in top10 a total of six times.
Below you can see Nina's entry from Dora in 2003 where she came second with this song; Čarobno Jutro.
