1. Dino Jelusick was the winner of the inaugural edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, in 2003.
22 Facts About Dino Jelusick
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Since 2016, Jelusick has been a touring member for the American rock band Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and in 2021, he joined Whitesnake.
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Dino Jelusick lived most of his life in the capital city of Zagreb.
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Dino Jelusick earned a master's degree from the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb, in 2020.
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Dino Jelusick wrote his first English song at the age of seven.
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Dino Jelusick released his debut solo album, No 1, in 2003, and an English version a year later.
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Dino Jelusick toured the United States, Scandinavia, and Australia until 2005, and the tour included four large concerts in Denmark with a combined audience of 100,000 people.
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Around 2007, as part of adolescence, Dino Jelusick's voice changed and lost part of its upper register.
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Dino Jelusick had grown up listening to King's X, Slash, Whitesnake, Dream Theater, and Toto, among others, and he decided to change his musical direction to hard rock and metal.
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In 2009, Dino Jelusick began recording an album in Melbourne, Australia, with producer Mark Berry, and finalized it with Swedish producer Robert Ahrling in Malmo.
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Between 2012 and 2013, Dino Jelusick was hired to take part in an international project in South Africa called Synkropation, which consisted of an album featuring the collaboration of different artists, including Mandoza and Dilana.
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In 2014, Dino Jelusick was awarded second place at the international festival Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk, in Belarus.
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In 2015, Dino Jelusick won four awards at the Discovery Fest in Bulgaria, one of which was for his song "Father".
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In 2012, Dino Jelusick formed the hard rock band Animal Drive, which was initially his solo band; their final lineup came together in 2015.
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In November 2022, Dino Jelusick finished a two-year-long legal battle with the label and began recording new songs with his new band, Dino Jelusick.
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Dino Jelusick joined and helped record their self-titled debut album, which was eventually released in March 2019.
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Dino Jelusick sang on two of the album's tracks, "Cause I Know You're the One" and "Lost Time ".
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In late 2018, Dino Jelusick recorded vocals and keyboards for a George Lynch project titled Dirty Shirley, which featured Will Hunt on drums and Trevor Roxx on bass.
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In July 2021, Dino Jelusick joined the British hard rock band Whitesnake as a backing vocalist and keyboardist.
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In March 2022, Dino Jelusick teamed up with Michael Romeo, performing all vocals on Romeo's solo album War of the Worlds, Pt.
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In 2018 and 2019, Dino Jelusick performed in several episodes of Hrvatska Radiotelevizija's entertainment and music program A-strana and was the youngest mentor in the Croatian version of the BBC show Just the Two of Us.
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From November 2023 until January 2024, Dino Jelusick served as a mentor on the fourth season of The Voice Hrvatska.