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23 Mar 2012

ESC History Chat: Bosnia-Herzegovina

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Coat of arms of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Some countries come to Eurovision with dreams of winning in the contest and showing their country off to a massive global audience.

The Bosnian story at Eurovision is somewhat different. In 1993, the Bosnian delegation left Sarajevo under a torrent of gunfire, but still arrived in Millstreet. In 1994, the applause their entrants received was so rapturous that one of their singers had trouble starting.

For Bosnia-Herzegovina, merely being at Eurovision was a glimmer of normalcy during very uncertain times and would evolve into a nation taking time out to tell the world “we’re getting better.”

This is AJ & Hikki’s take on Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Eurovision History.

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