Eva Boto

Eva Boto is a Slovenian pop singer from Šentjanž pri Dravogradu in Carinthia, born on 1 December 1995. She sings pop songs and ballads, and at only sixteen she represented Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest.

She started singing young. At ten she won the international singing festival Super Chris in Austria, in 2008 she won the children's FeNS festival and a year later she was third at the teenage FeNS. She went to the gymnasium in Ravne na Koroškem and later studied at the Faculty of Education in Maribor.

Her breakthrough came with the television talent show Misija Evrovizija. She auditioned in Celje on 26 August 2011 with "Hallelujah", was counted among the favourites from the start, and reached the final, which took her to EMA 2012. There she sang "Run", "Verjamem" and "A si sanjal me", and on 26 February 2012 won with "Verjamem", a song written by Vladimir Graić, Hari Mata Hari and Igor Pirkovič. At the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku she sang it in Slovenian in the second semi-final, where 31 points put her 17th, and she did not reach the final.

After Eurovision she recorded "To leto bo moje" with Max and Jan Plestenjak and took second place at Melodije morja in sonca with "Dvigni mi krila". Songs such as "Plus in minus" (2013) and "Na kožo pisana" (2014) followed, and in 2014 she won the main prize at the Silver Yantra festival in Bulgaria. In 2016 she won Slovenska popevka with "Kaj je to življenje", and in 2019 she was third there with "Dovolj je poletja", sung with Gašper Rifelj. From 2015 to 2019 she also sang with the folk pop group Črna mačka.

In 2019 she won the fifth season of the television show Znan obraz ima svoj glas, the first woman to win it overall. Her first album, Ko najdeš sebe, made with the producer Žan Serčič, came out the same year. At Melodije morja in sonca 2021 she was second again, with "Kdo ti bo dušo dal".

In 2022 she marked ten years on stage with a series of concerts across Slovenia. Her second album, Kjer najbolj gori, followed in 2024, with the songs "Kjer najbolj gori", "Moje zlato" and "Kdo pozna".