{"id":112798,"date":"2025-11-01T18:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/112798\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T18:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:19:12","slug":"%f0%9f%87%a6%f0%9f%87%b1-albania-who-is-kroni-pula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/112798\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf1 Albania: Who Is Kroni Pula?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to our Who Is series for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025. In this series, we\u2019ll be looking at the 18 artists that will compete at Junior Eurovision 2025 in Tbilisi. The first artist is Kroni Pula from Albania.<\/p>\n

Kroni Pula is 9 years old and comes from Tirana. She started singing at the age of 4. Her parents quickly noticed her interest in singing and enrolled her in music classes. Kroni currently attends the D\u00ebshmor\u00ebt e Liris\u00eb school in Tirana, where she regularly takes part in events and concerts. Alongside singing, she is also interested in dancing.<\/p>\n

Kroni was selected to represent Albania at Junior Eurovision 2025 through Festivali Mbar\u00ebkomb\u00ebtar i K\u00ebng\u00ebs p\u00ebr F\u00ebmij\u00eb n\u00eb Shkod\u00ebr 63. She won the Junior category of the festival.<\/p>\n

The song that Kroni will perform in Tbilisi is called \u201cFruta perime\u201d (Fruits and vegetables). It was written and composed by Adrian Hila. Adrian has significant experience at the Eurovision Song Contest, having composed the Albanian Eurovision entries in 2005, 2007 and 2008. In addition, this will be his third Junior Eurovision Song Contest song, having also been the creator of Albania\u2019s 2015 and 2016 entries.<\/p>\n

Image source: RTSH<\/p>\n

Albania in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest<\/p>\n

Albania debuted in the Junior Eurovision Contest in 2012, and to date have had seven entries. The country is still yet to win the contest. Their best result was in 2015, when Mishela Rapo performed her song \u201cDambaje\u201d, which scored a total of 93 points and ended in 5th place. Albania was absent from the contest in 2013 and 2014, before returning again in 2015. They have participated every year since, except for 2020. <\/p>\n

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Posted by:Neil Farren<\/p>\n

Neil is from Ireland but has lived in several countries around Europe. He has has been an editor for Eurovoix since May 2017. He has been following the Eurovision Song Contest since 2005 and attended every contest as press since 2019. He also follows other Eurovision contests, such as the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, which he has watched since the very first edition in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to our Who Is series for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025. In this series, we\u2019ll be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-112798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}