Princ od Vranje Принц од Врање | |
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 Zdravković in 2025 | |
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| Born | Stefan Zdravković (1993-09-29)29 September 1993 (age 32) |
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| Years active | 2016–present |
Stefan Zdravković (Serbian Cyrillic:Стефан Здравковић; born 29 September 1993),[citation needed] known professionally asPrinc od Vranje (Serbian Cyrillic:Принц од Врање,lit. 'Prince ofVranje') or simplyPrinc, is a Serbian singer. He representedSerbia in theEurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Mila".
Stefan Zdravković was born inVranje, and has lived inBelgrade since 2002.[1][2] He was the Serbian national champion and vice-champion in karate, and also competed for the national team.[1][3] In high school, at the age of 15, he began to play music, when he founded the band Šesta Žica with his friends.[1][4] He is a philologist by profession, having graduated from the Department of Scandinavian Languages, Literature and Culture, Norwegian Language, at theUniversity of Belgrade Faculty of Philology.[3]
Zdravković sings, plays the guitar and drums.[3] Since 2016, he has been the lead singer of the band Sisyphus.[3][4] In 2020, he was cast in the lead role in the rock operaJesus Christ Superstar byAndrew Lloyd Webber andTim Rice, organized by the Cultural Center of the Student City.[1][3][5]
He has participated in many festivals, such as the Slavyanski Bazaar in Belarus.[1] He is the winner of the International Music Competition "River Notes" in Bulgaria,[6] and also won one of the largest music festivals in Malta.[4] In addition to the aforementioned, he has also participated in festivals in Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Italy and Spain.[2] He wrote the song "Lepo moje Vranje", which was sung by his friend Đorđe Popović.[4] InGlasat na Bulgaria, out of 4,000 applicants, he entered the top 12, i.e. the semi-finals, in 2021.[5][7][8]
On 14 January 2022, it was announced that Princ was one of thirty-six entries selected forPesma za Evroviziju '22.[9][10] On 19 January 2022, however, he announced his withdrawal from the contest due to conflicts with songwriterLeontina regarding the song "Ljubi svog čoveka". The song was instead performed byTijana Dapčević, who had representedMacedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, under an altered version titled "Ljubi, ljubi doveka".[11][12]
The following year, in 2023, it was announced that Princ would participate in thePesma za Evroviziju '23 with the song "Cvet sa istoka", written by Dušan Bačić and arranged by Dejan Nikolić.[13][14] The published voting results showed that Princ won the most audience votes in both the first semi-final and the final, but in the final total with the jury votes, he came in second place, just behindLuke Black.[15]
In December 2024, Princ was announced as a contestant inPesma za Evroviziju '25 with the song "Mila".[16] After qualifying for the second semi-final, he won the competition on 28 February 2025.[17] On 2 May, Princ released his debut studio album,Mila, featuring the aforementioned title track.[18][19] At the Eurovision Song Contest in Switzerland, he participated in the second semi-final, held on 15 May, but failed to qualify to the grand final. This marked the first time since 2017 that Serbia failed to qualify to the final, and fourth overall.[20] It was later revealed that he placed 14th out of 16 participants in the second semi-final, making him the worst placed Serbian entrant in the contest ever.[21]
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
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| CRO Dom. [22] | ||
| Mila |
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| Title | Year | Album or EP |
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| "Samo mi je lepo" | 2022 | Mila |
| "Cvet sa Istoka" | 2023 | |
| "Divna" | ||
| "Mirno" (withGoca Tržan) | ||
| "Kad poželiš" (with Regina) | Non-album single | |
| "Ajša" | 2024 | Mila |
| "Čardak" | ||
| "Ela Ela" | ||
| "Belo" | ||
| "Paučina" (withŠejla Zonić [sr]) | ||
| "Mila" | 2025 | |
| "Lejla" | 2025 | TBA |
| Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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| 2025 | Eurovision Awards | Luscious Locks | Himself | Pending | [23] |
Što se tiče Beovizije, videćemo se ili sledeće ili neke druge godine.[As for Beovizija, I'll be seeing you next year or some other year.]
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| Preceded by | Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 | Succeeded by TBA |
