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Dino Jelusick
12+ albums
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Dino Jelusić (born 4 June 1992), also known by his stage name Dino Jelusick, is a Croatian singer, musician, and songwriter. He is the founder, principal songwriter, and lead singer of the progressive rock band Animal Drive, which was formed in 2012 and since 2017 has been signed to Frontiers Records. Since 2016, Jelusick has been a touring member for the American rock band Trans-Siberian Orchestra. He was the winner of the inaugural edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, in 2003. Jelusick wrote his first English song at the age of seven. In 2003, he participated in the first Junior Eurovision Song Contest, in Denmark, with a song he wrote at the age of ten, "Ti si moja prva ljubav", and won with 134 points. Jelusick released his debut solo album as Dino, "No. 1", in 2003, and an English version a year later. He toured the United States, Scandinavia, and Australia until 2005, and the tour included four large concerts in Denmark with a combined audience of 100,000 people. The same year, Jelusick became the youngest nominee of the Croatian music award Porin, at the age of twelve. In 2009, Jelusick began recording a new studio album in Melbourne, Australia, with producer Mark Berry, and finalized it with Swedish producer Robert Ahrling in Malmö. The album, released in August 2011 again as Dino, was titled "Living My Own Life". In 2014, Jelusick was awarded second place at the international festival Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk, in Belarus. Afterward, he began exper
