Boris Novković (born 25 December 1967) is a Croatian singer-songwriter. He has been active since the 1980s.

Biography

Novković was born in

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. His interest in a musical career was cultivated by his family background, with mother Ozana who taught music, and father

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who was a leading Croatian songwriter and music manager. He released his first album, ''Kuda idu izgubljene djevojke'' in 1986, selling 120,000 copies, while his follow-up release in 1987, ''Jači od sudbine'', sold 160,000 copies and remained his highest-selling album to date. Two more successful albums followed: ''Dok svira radio'' in 1988 and ''Obojeni snovi'' in 1989. In 1990, he narrowly missed out on the chance to represent Yugoslavia at the

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with the song "Dajana", but his second-place finish in the national pre-selection instead secured him a place at the International festival in

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. Seven more albums followed up to 2003, as well as two "best of" compilations, but only a few songs were able to match the popularity of the early ones. In 2005, fifteen years after his near miss in the Yugoslav pre-selection, Novković won the right to represent the now independent Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest. He performed his song " Vukovi umiru sami" ("Wolves die alone") together with members of the Lado ensemble. To win the Dora pre-selection competition on 5 March 2005, they had to defeat an array of former Croatian Eurovision representatives, including

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and

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. Despite the respectable showing of Croatia's 2004 Eurovision entry "You Are The Only One", the country did not achieve a high enough placing to qualify automatically for the 2005 grand final. Thus Boris' song was performed in the semi-final, where it finished 4th with 169 points, qualifying for the final. Novković represented the country in the

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and finished 11th with 115 points. He was also the composer of "

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", Croatian entry in the

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, performed by Severina. He later recorded two albums, one in Croatian and one in English, distributed on a label associated with Croatian faith healer Braco.

Discography

Studio albums

*''Kuda idu izgubljene djevojke...'' (1986) *''Jači od sudbine'' (1987) *''Dok svira radio'' (1988) *''Obojeni snovi'' (1989) *''100X'' – (1991) *''Struji struja'' (1993) *''U dobru i u zlu'' (1995) *''The Best of Boris'' (1995) *''Sve gubi sjaj bez ljubavi'' (1997) *''Branim se'' (1999) *''Direkt'' (2000) *Ko je kriv'' (2002) *''The best of 1995–2003'' (2003) *''Ostvaren san'' (2004) *''Braco Thank You'' (2007) *''Zapisan u tebi'' (2008) *''Via ljubav'' (2011) * "Još sam uvijek tvoj" (2014)

Singles

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