"Cannot wait". Those are the words of Montenegro'south Eurovision 2022 singer Vučinić when she announced the release date for "Exhale". According to an update on her Instagram story earlier this week, her song for Turin will be dropping on Friday iv March.

Montenegro's Vladana Vučinić volition release "Breathe" on four March

Dorsum in Jan, Vladana described her entry as a "cure" for the problems faced by Europe and the larger earth. "I will sing in English and then that the bulletin can exist heard beyond the Balkans," she told broadcaster RTCG, adding that the ballad is "a powerful hymn."

"I call back the message should be heard beyond the Balkans, so we decided on the English language. We're also thinking about recording the song in Italian because of the hosts, and we have not yet decided on the Montenegrin version."

"I wrote the words in a breath, without any changes," she says, noting it'southward based on a hard ordeal her family endured in the past year. "My feelings turned into lyrics and music."

Vladana has got a very big name on her side: Composer Darko Dimitrov, the genius behind Tamara Todevska's Eurovision 2019 jury winner "Proud". "It'southward very important that something takes me," he says. "I immediately savage into the song and I think we will have a decisive performance." He continues: "The ambition is for the performance to be of high quality. The less yous hope, the greater the success."

The entry is said to have a "cinematic piano moment" and to "grow to the stop" — something they'll no doubt be thinking of when it comes to staging. For now, Vladana says she imagines that she'll perform alone and possibly with a piano, and hopes the performance will lean toward the avant-garde. "I oasis't thought about it yet," she says, "but it has to be special, because it'south very of import to me."

Vladana described the song as "emotional, powerful and melancholic". Montenegro's budget is said to exist smaller than in previous years, but thankfully sponsors accept stepped forward to help make full the gap. During a press conference, RTCG revealed that their participation fee is just 28,000 euros — "the lowest amount of all participants."

Who is Vladana Vučinić?

The 35-yr-old artist has enjoyed a long career in Montenegro. Viewers showtime came to know her on a national karaoke show in 2003. But our girl can do a lot more than lip-sync for her life. Afterward that year she released her debut single and had the chance to perform it at the prestigious Budva Mediterranean Festival (one of the launchpads for another Eurovision star — 2007 winner Marija Serifovic).

Eurovision has been on Vladana's radar for more than a decade. She attempted to represent Montenegro twice by entering the national selection Montevizija in 2005 and 2006. Vladana isn't merely a pop star. She'due south a star with an artistic sensibility. You lot can see this in the music video for her 2010 music video for "Sinner Urban center," an blithe wonder that shows her facing the perils and pleasance of romance — and the loneliness that tin can be found fifty-fifty in intimacy.

Her best-known hitting, it became the outset video from a Montenegrin solo artist to appear in rotation on MTV Adria. The themes of her music are varied and traverse love, loss, longing and ambition. Other tracks on Sinner City include "Bad Girls Need Honey Too", "I Wanna exist A Rock Star" and Cheerio Planet Earth".

Vladana — full proper name Vladana Vučinić — isn't a one-fob pony. In addition to pursuing her music, she has a degree in journalism from Montenegro's Country Faculty of Political Scientific discipline. Building on that she launched her own online mode mag Chiwelook, for which she interviewed influential people beyond music, culture and politics.

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