Danica Prodanović ( sr-Cyrl, Даница Продановић, , née ''Radojičić'' / Радојичић; born 5 August 1989), is a Serbian

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, researcher and part-time singer, known by her nickname Nina (Нина ). She represented

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with the song "

Čaroban Serbia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song "Čaroban" written by Kristina Kovač. The song was performed by Nina. The Serbian national broadcaster, Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) organised the national final ''Pesma za ...

", composed by

Kristina Kovač Kristina Kovač ( sr-Cyrl, Кристина Ковач, ; born 10 November 1974) is a Serbian singer and composer. She became famous during the 1990s when she and her sister Aleksandra Kovač were a big attraction in Serbia and surrounding count ...

, and placed fourteenth in the final.

Life and career

Early life and career (1989–2010)

Nina was born as Danica Radojčić on 5 August 1989 in

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(

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then,

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now). She has an older brother, Stefan. Nina began playing the piano aged six, and also attended dance classes. She finished both elementary and secondary musical school, but she entered

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at the

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. She has performed in various clubs with her band "Legal Sex Department". Nina cites " Duffy,

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, and other pop and alternative artists" as her major influences.

Eurovision Song Contest and debut album (2011–present)

On 19 January 2011,

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(RTS) announced that the three members of the Kovač family — Kornelije,

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and Kristina — would compose three songs that would compete to represent

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. On 16 February, it was confirmed that Kristina Kovač had chosen Nina, then an unknown singer, to perform her song "

". Kovač discovered Nina thanks to YouTube. On 26 February, Nina was chosen for the Serbian entry at the

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in Düsseldorf, Germany, with more than 15,000 SMS votes. In March, Nina recorded the English version of the song, called "Magical"."Nina Radojčić otpevala pesmu za Evrosong na engleskom"
''S Media'' (S Media). 15 March 2011. Retrieved 17 March 2011. On 9 April, she performed at the Eurovision In Concert in

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to promote her song, along with 19 other participants. At the Eurovision Song Contest, Nina performed sixth in the first semi-final, after Yüksek Sadakat from Turkey and before Alexey Vorobyov from Russia, and qualified for the final. She performed the 24th in the final, after

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from Ukraine and before

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from

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, and placed 14th. In June 2011, Nina announced she would release her debut studio album through the

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. In an interview for

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Serbia, Nina stated that she had moved to Melbourne, Australia and that she was currently pursuing her PhD in immunopharmacology. She also stated that the plans to record an album through the PGP RTS had been scrapped.

Discography

* 2008 — "Dokaži da me voliš" * 2011 — "

" * 2016 — "Colors of my love" * 2020 — "Nemoćna"

Publications

* Prodanovic D, Keenan CR, Langenbach S, Li M, Chen Q, Lew MJ, et al. Cortisol limits selected actions of synthetic glucocorticoids in the airway epithelium. FASEB J. 2017; * Xia YC, Radwan A, Keenan CR, Langenbach SY, Li M, Radojicic D, et al. Glucocorticoid Insensitivity in Virally Infected Airway Epithelial Cells Is Dependent on Transforming Growth Factor-β Activity. PLoS Pathog. 2017;13(1). * Keenan CR, Radojicic D, Li M, Radwan A, Stewart AG. Heterogeneity in mechanisms influencing glucocorticoid sensitivity: The need for a systems biology approach to treatment of glucocorticoid-resistant inflammation. Vol. 150, Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 2015. p. 81–93.

References