Boris Novković

Boris Novković is a Croatian pop rock singer, songwriter and guitarist, born on 25 December 1967 in Sarajevo into a musical family: his father Đorđe Novković was a leading songwriter and music manager, and his mother Ozana taught music. He has been recording since 1986, for labels including Jugoton, HRT Orfej, Croatia Records, Dallas Records and Hit Records, with Noćna Straža as his backing band.

His first album, Kuda idu izgubljene djevojke..., came out in 1986 and sold about 120,000 copies. The follow-up, Jači od sudbine (1987), produced by Nikša Bratoš, sold about 160,000 and remains his best-selling record. Dok svira radio (1988) and Obojeni snovi (1989) followed. In 1990 he came second in the Yugoslav Eurovision selection with "Dajana", which earned him a place at an international festival in Kuala Lumpur.

Through the 1990s he released 100 X (1991), Struji struja (1993), U dobru i zlu (1995), Sve gubi sjaj bez ljubavi (1997) and Branim se (1999), then Direkt (2000), 'Ko je kriv (2002) and Ostvaren san (2004).

On 5 March 2005 Boris Novković won Dora with "Vukovi umiru sami", performed with members of the Lado ensemble. At the Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv it placed fourth in the semi-final with 169 points and eleventh in the final with 115. The next year he co-wrote the music for "Moja štikla" with Franjo Valentić, which Severina sang for Croatia at Eurovision 2006.

Later albums include Braco hvala ti (2007), Zapisan u tebi (2008), Via ljubav (2011), Još sam uvijek tvoj (2014), Gori ulica (2021) and Zbog nas (2025), along with the live albums Live Ostvaren san (2005) and Mojih prvih 20 Live (2007). "Pun mjesec, ti i ja" from Gori ulica reached No. 9 on the Croatian HR Top 40 in 2021, and 25 Greatest Hits gathered his career in 2024, after earlier collections such as The Best of Boris (1995), Zlatna kolekcija (2005) and The Platinum Collection (2008).