Sandi Cenov

Sandi Cenov, born Aleksandar Cenov in Rijeka in 1968, is a Croatian pop singer, composer and songwriter. He is on Muzika-Balkan as a singer born and raised in Rijeka who has been part of the Croatian pop scene since the early 1990s. In a 2021 interview with Novi list he spoke of "my dear Lovran", where he had shot the video for his Christmas song "U ponoć".

As a boy he learned the drums and the guitar and then stuck with the guitar. In secondary school he formed the teenage band Bedž, and later he sang in several bands, among them Uran, Hard Time and Fantomi. While he was with Fantomi he worked on his first solo album, Sve je to samo rock'n'roll, which made his name in the 1990s. He also studied law, but never finished.

He took part in the Croatian Eurovision selection Dora three times. At the very first Dora, in 1993, he sang "O.K." in a duet with Alka Vuica, which finished 11th of 15. In 2006 he sang "To nisam više ja" with Mirela Bunoza, which did not reach the final, and in 2021 he returned on his own with "Kriv", written by Siniša "Simba" Reljić and Faruk "Fayo" Buljubašić, which finished last.

His albums include Ljubav za sve (1993), U tvojim mislima (1994), Neka trese, neka udara (1995), Neke pjesme ljubavne (1998), Navike (2000), Sve je tu (2001), Popravi mi dan (2004), Sandiland (2007), Sve što imam (2010), To je to (2012) and Kad se volimo (2024). Among his best-known songs are "Ljubav za sve", "Nebo", "Žena budi mi ti", "Popravi mi dan", "Marija", "Nemirna" and above all "Malena", which became popular across the Balkans. In 2026 he sang "Kofer adrenalina" at the CMC festival in Vodice and recorded "Lijepa ženo" with Elvis Stanić for the album Što muzika sve može.

Sandi Cenov has also acted, as Lovre Pavić in the series Čista ljubav (2018) and in the sitcom Ko te šiša, and has lent his voice to cartoons such as Sedmi patuljak and Niko 3. For more than two decades he has given a Christmas concert every year at the Vanilla club in Split.