The Porin ceremony, which has been awarded for 23 years and is considered the most prestigious Croatian music award, was held two days ago in Gripe, Split, with a rich program in which numerous musicians of various genres took part.
Statues were awarded in 35 categories, and Matija Dedić won the most - six, including for the album of the year "Matija svira Arsena".
Masimo Savić won three awards for best pop album (1 day of love), production and male vocal performance.
The song of the year went to Elemental (Naked and Barefoot), and the band was also awarded in the Best Vocal Group Performance category. Cold beer walked away with two awards for the album "Days of Closed Doors", which is the best rock release and has the best cover.
The best alternative music album (Mostovi) and the best music video (Ima ih) were awarded to the works of the Rundek Cargo trio, the best vocal collaboration was achieved by Neno Belan and Maja Posavec in the song "Tvoj glas", TBF has the best club music album (Danas sutra), while is the best new performer Nina Kraljić, winner of the show "The Voice" and Croatia's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest. The veteran of the Croatian scene Ibrica Jusić won the first Porin in the category for the best entertainment music album (Harlekino).
In the Best Female Vocal Performance category, the statue was won by Josipa Lisac for the track "Tu", and she dedicated her recognition to the recently deceased Arsen Dedić. According to 24sata.hr, she was one of the few performers who appeared at the dress rehearsal half an hour earlier.
"All the musicians have Porin at home, and it's hard for them to come to the rehearsal. Why such behavior and unprofessionalism? Who was the rehearsal for? You have to draw and that's it. I was shocked when I saw that half of the people weren't there," she said. is she then.
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