Mia Dimšić

Mia Dimšić is a Croatian pop singer and songwriter, born in Osijek on 7 November 1992. She studied German and English at the University of Osijek and holds a master's degree in translation. Among her influences she names Taylor Swift, Kacey Musgraves, Norah Jones, Willie Nelson and Alison Krauss, and among Croatian artists Neno Belan, Gibonni and Oliver Dragojević; on stage she usually plays a Gibson Hummingbird guitar.

Her career began in 2014, when the tamburica band Džentlmeni took her along on their tour of the United States and Canada. Her first single, "Budi mi blizu", came out on 12 October 2015, and "Život nije siv" followed in July 2016, becoming the most played song on Croatian radio that year. Her debut album of the same name, released by Croatia Records on 20 March 2017, went to number one in Croatia and was certified platinum. It brought her a run of Porin awards, among them album of the year and best pop album, and "Bezimeni" won the Porin for song of the year in 2018.

Also in 2017 she won the Split festival with "Sunce, oblak, vjetar", released the Christmas album Božićno jutro and gave her first solo concert at Zagreb's Vatroslav Lisinski hall. Her second album, Sretan put, came out in 2019, and her duet with Marko Tolja, "Sva blaga ovog svijeta", went to number one on the HR Top 40, her sixth chart-topper as a lead artist.

In February 2022 she won Dora with "Guilty Pleasure" and represented Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, where she finished eleventh in the first semi-final, just short of the final. The English-language album Monologue followed in 2023, Društvena pravila in 2024, which won the Porin for best pop album, and Negdje u ravnici in 2026. She has also sung at the Zagreb festival and at Melodije Jadrana, and since the end of 2024 she has been a coach on The Voice Kids Hrvatska.