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Serbian musical group

Balkanika
Balkanika during Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon
Background information
Origin	Belgrade, Serbia
Genres	World folk medieval Byzantine music electronic folktronica
Years active	1998–present
Labels	PGP-RTS

Members	Aleksandar Radulović Branimir Marković Nevena Stamenković Ljubomir Dimitrijević Danica Krstić Marija Bjelanović Milan Jejina Mladen Lukić Nebojša Nedeljković Nemanja Kojić

Balkanika (Serbian Cyrillic: Балканика) is a Serbian group formed by Sanja Ilić in 1998. They represented Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, with the song "Nova deca".

The mission of the group is, as affirmed by Ilić, to preserve, revitalize and modernize Serbian medieval and Byzantine music traditions.

Members

Other members of the group include:

vocalists: Nevena Stamenković (born 11 April), Danica Krstić (born 25 November 1995), Marija Bjelanović, Mladen Lukić, and Nemanja Kojić
percussionists: Aleksandar Radulović and Milan Jejina
guitarists: Branimir Marković and Nebojša Nedeljković
flautist: Ljubomir Dimitrijević

Year	Award	Category	City	Result
2019	Music Awards Ceremony	Etno/World Music Song of the Year (Nova Deca)	Belgrade, Serbia	Won

"MUZIKA BALKANA JE UNIVERZALNI JEZIK KOJI NAS SPAJA". Balkanika. Archived from the original on 13 May 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
"Our Team". Balkanika. Archived from the original on 21 February 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2018.

Preceded byTijana Bogićević with "In Too Deep"	Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018	Succeeded byNevena Božović with "Kruna"
Preceded byMarko Kon & Milaan	Beovizija winner 2018	Succeeded byNevena Božović

v t e Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest
National selections: Pesma za Evroviziju Beovizija (former)
Participation	2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Artists	Balkanika Luke Black Tijana Bogićević Nevena Božović Teya Dora Bora Dugić Hurricane Sanja Ilić Željko Joksimović Marko Kon Konstrakta Milaan Moje 3 Nina Marija Šerifović Bojana Stamenov Milan Stanković Jelena Tomašević Sanja Vučić ZAA
Songs	"Beauty Never Lies" "Čaroban" "Cipela" "Goodbye (Shelter)" ~~"Hasta la vista"~~ "In corpore sano" "In Too Deep" "Kruna" "Ljubav je svuda" "Loco loco" "Molitva" "Nije ljubav stvar" "Nova deca" "Oro" "Ovo je Balkan" "Ramonda" "Samo mi se spava"
Note: Entries scored out signify where Serbia did not compete. Italics indicate an entry in a future contest.

Countries

Final	Albania Australia Austria Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Hungary Ireland Israel Italy Lithuania Moldova Netherlands Norway Portugal Serbia Slovenia Spain Sweden Ukraine United Kingdom
Semi-finals	Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Croatia Georgia Greece Iceland Latvia Macedonia Malta Montenegro Poland Romania Russia San Marino Switzerland

Artists

Final	Saara Aalto Amaia and Alfred AWS Eugent Bushpepa DoReDoS Equinox Eleni Foureira Sanja Ilić and Balkanika Benjamin Ingrosso Mikolas Josef Madame Monsieur Jessica Mauboy Mélovin Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro Elina Nechayeva Netta Ryan O'Shaughnessy Cláudia Pascoal Rasmussen Alexander Rybak Cesár Sampson Michael Schulte Lea Sirk SuRie Waylon Ieva Zasimauskaitė
Semi-finals	Aisel Alekseev Christabelle Eye Cue Franka Gromee feat. Lukas Meijer The Humans Ethno-Jazz Band Iriao Jessika feat. Jenifer Brening Sevak Khanagyan Ari Ólafsson Vanja Radovanović Laura Rizzotto Julia Samoylova Sennek Yianna Terzi Zibbz

Songs

Final	"Bones" "Dance You Off" "La forza" "Fuego" "Higher Ground" "Hvala, ne!" "O jardim" "Lie to Me" "Mall" "Mercy" "Monsters" "My Lucky Day" "Nobody but You" "Non mi avete fatto niente" "Nova deca" "Outlaw in 'Em" "Storm" "That's How You Write a Song" "Together" "Toy" "Tu canción" "Under the Ladder" "Viszlát nyár" "We Got Love" "When We're Old" "You Let Me Walk Alone"
Semi-finals	"Crazy" "For You" "Forever" "Funny Girl" "Goodbye" "I Won't Break" "Inje" "Light Me Up" "Lost and Found" "A Matter of Time" "Oniro mou" "Our Choice" "Qami" "Stones" "Taboo" "Who We Are" "X My Heart"

List of Eurovision Song Contest 2018 jurors