Dino Jelusick

The record is based on the autobiographical novel 260 days by Marijan Gubina, about a ten-year-old boy who survives 260 days of imprisonment in a war camp during the Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995).

Dino Jelusić (born 4 June 1992), also known by his stage name Dino Jelusick, is a Croatian singer, musician, and songwriter.

He was the winner of the inaugural edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, in.

Jelusick was born Dino Jelusić on 4 June 1992 in Požega, Croatia.

He lived most of his life in the capital city of Zagreb.

In 2003, he participated in the first Junior Eurovision Song Contest, in Denmark, with a song he wrote at the age of ten, "Ti si moja prva ljubav", and won with 134 points.

Jelusick released his debut solo album, No. 1, in 2003, and an English version a year later.

He 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.

The same year, Jelusick became the youngest nominee of the Croatian music award Porin, at the age of twelve.

In 2005, he was one of three main acts at the Langeland festival in Denmark, along with UB40 and Ronan Keating.

Around 2007, as part of adolescence, Jelusick's voice changed and lost part of its upper register.

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.

In 2009, Jelusick began recording a new studio album in Melbourne, Australia, with producer Mark Berry, and finalized it with Swedish producer Robert Ahrling in Malmö.

He later commented that until the mid–2010s, he had faced numerous difficulties within the Croatian music industry.

Due to these problems, he considered ending his musical career.

Reportedly, his live performance of Queen's "The Show Must Go On" was noticed by American rock band Trans-Siberian Orchestra, who were searching for two male touring vocalists.

The album, released in August 2011, was titled Living My Own Life.

However, as he did not write any of the songs on it, Jelusick does not perform them live.

He is the founder, principal songwriter, and lead singer of the progressive rock band Animal Drive, which was formed in 2012 and disbanded in 2021.

Between 2012 and 2013, Jelusick was hired to take part in an international project in South Africa called Synkropation.

The project consisted of an album featuring the collaboration of different artists, including Mandoza and Dilana.

Though the album was never released, Jelusick was featured on several songs and played to an audience of 50,000 people.

In 2014, Jelusick was awarded second place at the international festival Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk, in Belarus.

Afterward, he began experiencing problems with his voice.

In September, he underwent surgery for Reinke's edema.

After the surgery, he recorded another album, this one entirely composed by him.

A concept album titled Prošao sam sve ("I went through everything"), it was released in November 2014.

In 2015, American drummer John Macaluso was looking for a singer and keyboardist for his new American-Croatian band Stone Leaders.

Since 2016, Jelusick has been a touring member for the American rock band Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and in 2021, he joined Whitesnake.

In 2023, he released the album Follow the Blind Man with his band Jelusick.

In 2016, he won at New Wave in Sochi, Russia, the largest singing contest for young performers in the world.

February 2016 was a turning point in Jelusick's music career.

After auditioning and meeting with producer Paul O'Neill, Jelusick was chosen to join the group and took part in their 2016 winter tour.

During this time, Jelusick was also a member of Croatian metal band the Ralph, with whom he released the album Enter Escape in February 2017.

The same year, Jelusick won four awards at the Discovery festival in Bulgaria, one of which was for his song "Father".

During the 2017 winter tour, the band, with Kayla Reeves on the East and Jelusick on the West lineup, honored O'Neill while playing "The Safest Way into Tomorrow".

Jelusick joined and helped record their self-titled album, which was eventually released in March 2019.

He earned a master's degree from the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb, in 2020.

As his parents also played musical instruments, Jelusick was introduced to music and singing at the age of three and started performing at the age of five by appearing on television, on stages, and at festivals.

Jelusick wrote his first English song at the age of seven.