Radio-television of Serbia ceremoniously sent off Teja Dora to the Eurovision Song Contest

Teja Dori was presented with the flag of Sweden in the hall of RTS, where the ceremonial send-off to Malmö was held, by her Excellency, the ambassador of that country in Belgrade, Annika Ben David.

“It is a great honor and responsibility to represent Serbia this year at Eurovision, and we did everything to make it perfect.” I hope everyone will like it,” Teja Dora said before leaving for Malmö.

Luke Black, last year’s representative of our country at the Eurovision Song Contest, wished Teja Dora the best of luck and gave her “first-hand advice”.

Before leaving for the biggest music competition in Europe, he ceremoniously presented her with a symbolic flag of Serbia.

The representative of Serbia at the “Eurovision Song Contest”, Teodora Pavlovsk (Teya Dora), is also a pianist, composer, songwriter and music producer.

She was born in Bor in 1992. She is the first performer from Serbia who had more than three million listeners on the Spotify platform.

She wrote several domestic hits before deciding to embark on a solo career herself. The youngest winner of a scholarship for the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston in the Balkans, the first solo song, entitled Yes, it’s up to mewas released in 2018, and she achieved significant popularity with the single Janum from 2023, which she did for the television series South wind: On the border.

As she stated in an interview, she grew up with parents who were amateur musicians. At the age of five, before she learned to write, she asked her parents to enroll her in a music school to play the piano.

Along with high school in Belgrade, she also attended the Music School “Dr. Vojislav Vučković” in the piano department. She studied singing at the Berklee College of Music.

She has sung backing vocals for American artists such as Grammy Award winners Patti Austin, Sydah Garrett, Jerry Allen and Valerie Simpson. After graduation, she lived for a while in New York, where she wrote songs in English for the production company “ARKTKT Publishing”.

She broke through on the music scene in Serbia in 2018 with a song No limit, which she did for Nikolija. Pavlovska then continued to write songs for other local artists.

She has won a diamond plate in Turkey, a platinum plate in India and a series of gold plates in Europe. She participated in numerous festivals, including “Music Week”, “Arsenal Fest”, “Exit”…

At the Eurovision song contest Ramonda she performs as the second, on the seventh of May in the first semi-final. That’s Dora won the PZE final on the second of March, scoring a total of 22 points.