{"id":322708,"date":"2026-03-01T01:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/322708\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:20:09","slug":"lavina-wins-pesma-za-evroviziju-26-with-kraj-mene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/322708\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavina wins Pesma za Evroviziju 26 with “Kraj mene”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serbia has joined the list countries who now have their Eurovision 2026 representative.<\/p>\n

The final of Serbia’s national selection process, Pesma za Evroviziju 26<\/a> (PZE 26) was held tonight and the 14 acts who advanced from the Semi-finals took the stage again tonight.<\/p>\n

After all the acts performed again and the votes were counted, it was official: Lavina wins Pesma za Evroviziju 26 with “Kraj mene<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Serbia 2026: Lavina \u2013 “Kraj mene”<\/p>\n

Serbia 2026: Lavina – “Kraj mene”<\/p>\n

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“Kraj mene<\/a>” was written by Ivan Jegdi\u0107 and Lavina.<\/p>\n

Pesma za Evroviziju 26 \u2013 Final<\/p>\n

Like the Semi-finals, tonight’s show took place at RTS Ko\u0161utnjak, Studio 8 in Belgrade and was hosted by Dragana Kosjerina and Kristina Radenkovi\u0107, with Stefan Popovi\u0107 in the Green Room.<\/p>\n

Voting to determine the winner was split an even 50\/50 between a jury and public vote.<\/p>\n

We see two interval acts tonight. The first was a blend of multiple legendary Eurovision songs being covered alongside an artful choreography arrangement. Some of the songs played were “Waterloo”, “Arcade”, “Soldi”, and “My Number One” to name a few.<\/p>\n

Greek Eurovision 2026 representative Akylas was brought out to perform his entry ‘Ferto<\/a>‘ in a fun and upbeat performance.<\/p>\n

Lavina will wave Serbia’s flag during Semi-final 1 on 12 May and hopes to bring Serbia back to the Grand Final.<\/p>\n

Lavina<\/p>\n

Lavina is a Serbian metal band formed in 2020. The group currently consists of six members:<\/p>\n

Luka Aran\u0111elovi\u0107 \u2013 vocalsPavle Aran\u0111elovi\u0107 – keyboardsPavle Samard\u017ei\u0107 – guitarAndrija Cvetanovi\u0107 – guitarNikola Petrovi\u0107 – bassBojan Ili\u0107 – drums<\/p>\n

Their debut album, ‘Odyssey’ was released in October 2022 and it would lead them to touring and playing multiple festivals all over Europe.<\/p>\n

Lavina took part of The Song 18 representing Serbia with “this, too, will pass<\/a>” and ultimately placed 12th.<\/p>\n

They’re music style is to be described as progressive\/modern metal with splashes of melodic attributes mixed with heavier metal textures.<\/p>\n

Pesma za Evroviziju 26 <\/a>\"Serbia:<\/p>\n

Pesma za Evroviziju 26All about Pesma za Evroviziju 26<\/p>\n

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Pesma za Evroviziju 26 (PZE 26) was Serbia’s national selection process to select their Eurovision 2026 representative, the 5th year they have opted for this process. PZE 26 consisted of three shows:<\/p>\n

Semi-final 1: 24 February 2026 Semi-final 2: 26 February 2026<\/p>\n

Both Semi-finals saw 12 acts perform, with seven advancing to the Final from each Semi-final.<\/p>\n

The Final had 14 acts perform in hopes of receiving enough votes to take the PZE 26 crown. Voting to select the winner was an even 50\/50 split between jury and public votes. The winner will represent Serbia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 this May in Vienna.<\/p>\n

Serbia in Eurovision <\/a>Serbia 2022: Konstrakta – “In Corpore Sano”<\/p>\n

Serbia has been a part of Eurovision since 2007, except in 2014 when they chose not to participate.<\/p>\n

Their best result came in their debut year, when Marija \u0160erifovi\u0107 won the Eurovision Song Contest 2007<\/a> with the song Molitva<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Serbia 2022: Konstrakta – “In Corpore Sano”<\/p>\n

Out of 17 appearances, they have qualified for the Grand Final 13 times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serbia has joined the list countries who now have their Eurovision 2026 representative. The final of Serbia’s national…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,21295,17948,61,60,149936,119444,149935,149934,63511,282,21299],"class_list":{"0":"post-322708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-esc","10":"tag-eurovision","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-lavina","14":"tag-national-selections","15":"tag-pesma-za-evroviziju","16":"tag-rts","17":"tag-serbia","18":"tag-tv","19":"tag-vienna-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}