{"id":50866,"date":"2024-05-07T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T07:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2025887"},"modified":"2024-05-07T10:55:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T08:55:16","slug":"who-is-baby-lasagna-meet-the-croatia-eurovision-2024-entry","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/who-is-baby-lasagna-meet-the-croatia-eurovision-2024-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Baby Lasagna? Meet the Croatia Eurovision 2024 entry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s what you need to know about Croatia’s Eurovision 2024 entry! <\/p>

By Charlotte Colombo\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 07 May 2024 at 07:00 AM<\/p>

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Croatia do things a little differently than other Eurovision Song Contest<\/a> countries. To choose the lucky musician to represent the country on the international stage, Croatia have their own televised national competition, known as the Dora. <\/span><\/p>\n

Croatia\u2019s national broadcaster, Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT), has broadcast and organised the Dora ever since the country first started appearing in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1983.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/p>\n

And the winner of the 2024 Dora, and the chosen representative of Croatia is a musician with quite possibly the best name ever: Baby Lasagna, known as singer-songwriter Marko Puri\u0161i\u0107.<\/p>\n

Baby Lasagna will be performing Rim Tim Tagi Tim at Malm\u00f6 Arena in Sweden on May 11th, but is it enough to win? <\/span>We can\u2019t answer that just yet, but here\u2019s everything we know about Baby Lasagna and the song.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who is Croatia Eurovision 2024 entry Baby Lasagna?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Marko Purisic, also known as Baby Lasagna, performing on stage.<\/span><\/figcaption> SANDER KONING\/ANP\/AFP via Getty Images<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Age:<\/strong> 28<\/p>\n

Instagram:<\/strong>@_the_baby_lasagna<\/a><\/p>\n

Prior to his solo endeavours, Marko Puri\u0161i\u0107 was best known for being the guitarist of popular rock band Manntra. The band themselves gave Eurovision a whirl back in 2019, coming fourth in the country\u2019s annual televised Dora, but Marko has been flying solo as a musician himself this past year. According to Eurovision World<\/a>, he cites Rammstein, System of a Down, Vivaldi, and Beethoven as his musical influences.<\/p>\n

Marko also shared the origins of his name with a surprising anecdote. \u201cOne day, I was walking by the seaside, but it wasn\u2019t as romantic as it sounds,\u201d he said. \u201cI was looking for a store to buy water so I could drink my aspirin because I had a raging headache. Anyway, as I was looking in a store, words popped into my head: \u2018Baby Lasagna.’\u201d<\/p>\n

How old is <\/strong>Baby Lasagna<\/strong>?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Baby Lasagna is 28 years old<\/strong>, having been born on 5th July 1995.<\/p>\n

What nationality is Baby Lasagna?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Croatian born and bred, Baby Lasagna is from Umag in Croatia.<\/p>\n

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