Damir Kedžo is a Croatian pop singer who started his music career in 2003 with his appearance in the Story Super Nova Music Talent Show, however he gained fame in his country after winning the third season of the Croatian version of Your Face Sounds Familiar. He released his debut album three years later.
Damir had previously attempted to represent his country at Eurovision in 2011, but was eliminated in the first heat.
He was one of the five jurors for Croatia in the 2016 contest in Stockholm and the 2023 contest in Liverpool.
He was to have represented Croatia at the 2020 contest prior to its cancellation with the song Divlji vjetre prior to its cancellation. On 23 June 2020, it was announced that Damir would not be internally chosen to represent the country in 2021. Additionally, on 21 November 2020, Damir announced that he would not take part in Dora 2021, citing he did not have a song that he believed in. He returned to Dora in 2023 with the song "Angels and Demons", finishing in 4th place. He finished 4th again at Dora 2024 with the song "Voljena ženo".
He won the second season of The Masked Singer Croatia as "Tovar" (Donkey).
Trivia[]
- Damir voiced Camilo Madrigal in the Croatian dub of Encanto. He is one of two Eurovision representatives to have voiced the character in a foreign-language dub of the film, the other being Tusse (Sweden 2021) in the film's Swedish dub.
- Additionally, Albina (Croatia 2021) voiced Camilo's cousin Isabela Madrigal in the same dub of the film.